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convos
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Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine
Excellent idea! You'll have a mature, open standard protocol under the hood, with no vendor lock-in, excellent extensibility, and great modern frontends like The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) or Convos (https://convos.chat/) to choose from (and you can choose).
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Wave of Spam Hits IRC
And UnrealIRCD still rocks. For a quick-and-dirty setup I've deploy ng-ircd but Unreal has always been my go-to for anything serious. If nothing else it can be useful as a backup or internal platform during the rare events that Slack or Discord are having an incident. The common complaint is a lack of channel back-log but it can be front-ended with TheLounge [1] or Convos [2]. I personally prefer to handle that with gnu screen or tmux and WeeChat [3].
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge
[2] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/
[3] - https://weechat.org/
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Matrix 2.0: How weβre making Matrix go voom
For the other layers one can front-end IRC with TheLounge [1][2] or Convos [3][4]. TheLounge only persists history in private mode meaning that users are created in that front-end and chat messages are in Redis. For small networks or groups of friends this is probably fine.
Notably missing is voice chat. I use the Mumble client [5] with the Murmur or uMurmur [6] server which is light-weight enough to run on ones home router. I use it on Alpine Linux, works great. It's not a shiny and attention grabbing as Discord but probably fine for everyone else. For people to create their own voice channels would require the full-blown Murmur server.
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge
[2] - https://thelounge.chat/
[3] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/
[4] - https://convos.chat/
[5] - https://www.mumble.info/
[6] - https://github.com/umurmur/umurmur/wiki/Configuration
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IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
FWIW TheLounge [1] and Convos [2] can front-end an IRC server giving it much of the look of a modern client and also chat persistence when using TheLounge in private mode. The trade-off in my opinion is scalability. With a bog standard IRCD I can handle tens of thousands of clients per node. Adding web persistent chat adds memory usage.
[1] - https://github.com/thelounge https://thelounge.chat/
[2] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos/ https://convos.chat/
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Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets
IRC is a mature, extensible, open protocol, with a wide variety of server and client implementations to suit many use cases, servers can be self-hosted and federated, and modern web-based clients like The Lounge or Convos offer a user experience equivalent to Discord, Slack, etc.
- Show HN: Convos Self Hosted IRC Web Client
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Looking for OSS version of Teams For Buisnesses
Standard IRC with a web interface like The Lounge or Convos
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Eric July - Discord "goes woke", begins banning "medical misinformation".
And there are some great web-based clients like the Lounge and Convos that offer an equivalent UX to Discord or Slack, are open-source, self-hostable, and based on a mature, reliable, and extensible open protocol.
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IRC client with web interface?
Take a look at convos to see if it fits your needs: https://convos.chat/
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Simplicity of IRC
There are web front-ends to IRC that can mitigate message loss without having to run bouncers. Convos [1] and TheLounge [2] come to mind but there are others [3]
[1] - https://convos.chat/
[2] - https://thelounge.chat/
[3] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
DFeed
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Don't Use Discord as a Forum
I'm not familiar with the codebase, but from my understanding it saves messages in a database [1], then periodically send out a formatted email to people who subscribed to the thread/group [2]
Anyone can post on the forum, you just have to provide an email address (you don't have to register, but you can enforce it)
[1] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/w...
[2] - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/blob/master/src/dfeed/s...
- I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
- Towards a new lisper space(?)
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Why Did Usenet Fail?
This website is powered by DFeed, an NNTP / mailing list web frontend / forum software, news aggregator and IRC bot. DFeed was written mostly by Vladimir Panteleev. The source code is available under the GNU Affero General Public License on GitHub: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
- Google Groups has been left to die
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Feedbase is an Atom/RSS-feed to nntp gateway
I never used it but the D forum has an nntp interface: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
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Casnode: An open-source forum software developed using BeeGo, React and MySQL
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed is also interesting
- First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board written in Rust
- Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software
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[META] Like Rationalists Leaving A . . .
What I would really, really like in any forum software is an NNTP bridge. Ideally bidirectional, but at least readable via NNTP. So far, the only one I've seen is https://forum.dlang.org/ with actual code at https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed .
What are some alternatives?
LANraragi - Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready for NAS/servers.
Postmill
The Lounge - π¬ β Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
ForumMagnum - The development repository for LessWrong2 and the EA Forum, based on Vulcan JS
slackcat - Post to Slack from stdin
go-littr - Link aggregator inspired by (old)reddit using ActivityPub federation. (mirror repository) [Moved to: https://github.com/mariusor/brutalinks]
spcss - A simple, minimal, classless stylesheet for simple HTML pages
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
Kiwi IRC - π₯ Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client
hackernews-sauron - A fast, resilient, isomorphic hacker news clone in ~1k lines of rust.
Yancy - The Best Web Framework Deserves the Best Content Management System
Lemmy - π A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse