Rallly VS Spectrum 2

It is great that WAYF offers something completely bare one without the features you are mentioning, IMHO.

https://rallly.co/

Hi everyone. Just wanted to share an update from my original post a while back about my self-hostable Doodle alternative called Rallly. I released a new version with an updated UI and a lot of highly requested features. For a while this version was only available for users of the managed service (rallly.co) but I recently just released a new version for self-hosting that brings it up to speed.

Not sure, if this meets your requirements, but there is Rallly

Rallly

https://rallly.co/ is great for scheduling consensus. It's Doodle before Doodle fell off. Not a lot of dates here obviously, but when you blow up and start an army of trash goblins you'll probably need it.

RALLLY lets people vote on a proposed time. Not sure if it entirely fits your requirements, but figured I'd share just in case.

Another game, which I run, plays on Saturdays about once every 3 weeks, but not on a regular schedule. Every 4 months or so I send out a poll (using https://rallly.co/) to pick dates for the upcoming season. It's kind of a pain, but that's what you have to do when your group is older and you have family schedules to work around...

My group and I use this website: https://rallly.co. I (the DM) propose a few dates and tones a week or two out, everyone selects their availability, and I chose the time that works best for everyone. Or make a new poll when none of those dates work.

Rallly: A self-hostable doodle poll alternative (based on Next.js, tRPC, and TailwindCSS)

This is the point where I lose everyone and a big reason for this is that people don't understand how libpurple works with Pidgin, Finch, Adium, bitlbee, spectrum2, telepathy-haze, and maybe others I'm not aware of or forgetting. So that's what we're going to try and tackle today.

> and supports bridging to other types of networks which aren't matrix-based

https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/

Turn any XMPP client into that fancy multiprotocol chat app that every cool kid want.

> Signal, Telegram, Discord, Steam, Mattermost, Facebook, Skype

https://spectrum.im/

Spectrum is an open source instant messaging transport. It allows users to chat together even when they are using different IM networks.

https://github.com/louiz/biboumi

Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.

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I'm using all of those daily to connect to all my other accounts, Slidge is the most modern one and is having lots of features ported to the modern XMPP extensions.

It's actually closer to spectrum2 in how it behaves. I hope slidge will get as rock-solid as biboumi is!

https://spectrum.im/

I want this to take off. I'm tired of having to follow trends: IRC to ICQ to MSN to Skype to Google Talk to Facebook Messenger to Whatsapp to Signal.

Pidgin is good (I also miss the ancient Trillian, even though it was closed source), but limited to a local device.

There are XMPP Transports as well for these (see https://git.eta.st/eta/whatsxmpp , https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/spectrum2_signald , but sadly https://spectrum.im/ is surprisingly finicky to set up.)

There are at least hundreds of implementations of XMPP that are interoperable (at 5-6 actively developed server implementations, many more libraries and many client applications). There are at least hundreds of thousands deployed XMPP services.

In addition XMPP can be linked with other protocols/networks via bridges/gateways. Some examples:

- Spectrum: XMPP gateway project based on libpurple (support for many protocols): https://spectrum.im/

- WhatsApp bridge: https://git.eta.st/eta/whatsxmpp

- Telegram bridge: https://github.com/codingteam/emulsion

- Signal bridge: https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/slidge/ (replacement of https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/spectrum2_signald/ )

Given such a diverse ecosystem of open-source and proprietary implementations, I'd say XMPP is one of the best examples of widespread protocol interoperability that there is.

Nope, the project is almost dead (as most XMPP projects), but there are some recent commits at https://github.com/SpectrumIM/spectrum2