prosody-docker vs Oragono

prosody-docker

Docker image building system for the Prosody XMPP server (by prosody)

docker-image xmpp-server

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hub.docker.com

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Oragono

A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go. (by oragono)

Communication systems Irc irc-daemon Sasl Ircd Ircv3 ircv3-support Server Daemon irc-server

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ergo.chat

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prosody-docker		Oragono
	Project
1	Mentions	20
137	Stars	2,153
-1.5%	Growth	2.5%
3.2	Activity	8.3
5 months ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Lua	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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prosody-docker

Posts with mentions or reviews of prosody-docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-21.

Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jul 2022

XMPP(aka Jabber), specifically Prosody. https://github.com/prosody/prosody-docker/ Then any XMPP client will work.

Oragono

Posts with mentions or reviews of Oragono. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-29.

IRC Is the Only Viable Chat Protocol
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023
Ergo: Erlang/OTP Implemented in Golang
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2023
IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2022
Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Jul 2022

You could also go IRC. Ergo server is simple (https://github.com/ergochat/ergo) and there are clients for phones. Text only which maybe is ok.
Hacker News top posts: Jun 22, 2022
4 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 22 Jun 2022

Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go\ (70 comments)
Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 22 Jun 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 22 Jun 2022

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 21 Jun 2022

7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing prosody-docker and Oragono you can also consider the following projects:

docker-dst-server - Don't Starve Together dedicated server in Docker!

InspIRCd - A modular C++ IRC server (ircd).

ngircd - Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

The Lounge - 💬 ‎ Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client

Convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser [Moved to: https://github.com/convos-chat/convos]

Robust IRC - RobustIRC - an IRC network without netsplits, implemented in Go using the Raft consensus algorithm

Weechat - The extensible chat client.

Kiwi IRC - 🥝 Next generation of the Kiwi IRC web client

Shout - Deprecated. See fork @ https://github.com/thelounge

Dispatch - Web-based IRC client in Go.

ZNC - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer

ergo - An actor-based Framework with network transparency for creating event-driven architecture in Golang. Inspired by Erlang. Zero dependencies.