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How does this compare to [SOME COMPETING THING I WANT TO PROMOTE]?
It's a very crowded, relatively low barrier to entry, high barrier to switch space.
The killer feature of Discord for me is being able to jump between communities without logging in to each of them. Open source alternatives never provide that. Does this one? Matrix is the obvious exception but the UX has always been terrible for me. I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it.
> I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it. E2EE is not mandatory and public rooms don't usually use it.
The killer feature of Discord for me is being able to jump between communities without logging in to each of them. Open source alternatives never provide that. Does this one? Matrix is the obvious exception but the UX has always been terrible for me. I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it.
Each Chatto server by design is entirely isolated, including user accounts. But I'm aware that having to email-signup on every server you want to hang out in would eventually be too annoying. I'm exploring some lightweight identity federation ideas that I hope to ship with 0.5 where you can use your Chatto account on one server to log into another server (if it's configured to allow this.)
The documentation looks very pleasing. But it doesn't seem to be free, too. Does anybody know with what framework it's made? WhatCMS says "Astro", but I guess this is too generic and there more involved.
It's Astro and Astro Starlight. I feel it looks very similar to other contemporary docs website generators.
The reason most companies are reluctant to switch from slack is because they have external third parties i.e. their partners connected with external channels within slack. Changing their internal DM/IM system will remove their ability to communicate with their partners in the same system.
Perhaps a plugin where slack messages can be forwarded to Chatto and eventually bi-directional i.e. Chatto messages can be forwarded to Slack.
Would English speakers pronounce this as "Chat-to"? To a Japanese person, this clearly sounds like "Cha-tto," which simply means "chat."
Linguist here. It would likely be pronounced with a flap/tap, i.e., it would rhyme with shadow
The marketing practically writes itself.
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Wow! I have a stupid question - as I understand NATS works very well as a “message” pipe/bus. Anyway to get Redis type cache functionality as well ? Is it something possible ?
JetStream (not NATS) has a built-in key/value store. Relevant thread (old, from 2023): https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go/discussions/1507 someone did some benchmarks in 2025: nats bench kv put --size="128" --msgs 1000000 --storage file 1m3s → Pub stats: 15,656 msgs/sec ~ 1.91 MB/sec nats bench kv get --size="128" --msgs 1000000 59s → Sub stats: 16,720 msgs/sec ~ 2.04 MB/sec I have personally not used this though.
The documentation looks very pleasing. But it doesn't seem to be free, too. Does anybody know with what framework it's made? WhatCMS says "Astro", but I guess this is too generic and there more involved.
This should be the source: https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto/tree/main/apps/docs-web... It's Astro and Astro Starlight. I feel it looks very similar to other contemporary docs website generators.