Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH

Run `ssh devzat.hackclub.com` to try it out! The repo is here: https://github.com/quackduck/devzat (golang). It has markdown and emoji support, DMs, channels, and it can show images too. You can send code, and it gets syntax highlighted (you can change the theme). You can ping people like so: @user and it sends them a \a, which should play an audible sound if the terminal allows it. There's inbuilt games and rainbow names and a lot of other small things I don't remember right now.

You might find the auth system interesting: it's based on a hash of ssh pubkey (bans use that and a hash of IP, so it isn't so easy to get around a ban)

Also an interesting issue: bots that go around trying to brute force ssh into random IPs with common usernames. My current solution is banning if rapid successive joins are detected.

Love the fact that there are currently more people on the server than likes on this post :D

You might wanna take a look at https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea ad specifically https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve for v2.

IRC style commands that are only sent to the sender would also be nice as current version is a bit spammy with help and user commands.

Post a video of a demo of it. Might drain attention :)

I like it. A few observations:

* Hangman doesn't give you credit for all instances of a letter when you guess it

* Starting a new game of hangman (maybe also TTT?) interrupts/erases the previous one, if there's one in progress

* Images can be anything and aren't filtered - troll users could present some nasty stuff

* User settings don't persist (e.g., nickname)

I imagine the selection of people who would use Devzat's feature set are at least passingly familiar with Discord.

People who aren't familiar with Discord but that would still use text chat over SSH are probably more likely to use IRC.