piotrkulpinskiSep 5, 2025

Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!

https://lemmy.world/post/35502519

Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source! - Lemmy.World

Hi! DHH (co-founder of Basecamp) announced [https://x.com/dhh/status/1963675999012552970] yesterday that they’re making their group chat software open source and free for everyone to use. This is fantastic news, especially considering this piece of software previously required a $299 payment just to access the codebase (far too expensive, in my opinion). It looks like we now have another excellent open source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams [https://openalternative.co/campfire], thanks to this move. I really hope more companies will follow this trend soon. What are your thoughts?

Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceSep 5, 2025
Not sure what I’ll use this for yet, but I’m going to see if I can host it tonight I guess. Didn’t have anything else planned
Show threadfrongtSep 6, 2025
Where do you see that? The repo says you should be able to clone and run it.
Show threadLifeInMultipleChoiceSep 6, 2025

I used the link listed on the post above, and it brings you to their website. (once.com/campfire) Then I tried to search for an install for Linux and was finding

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL auth.once.com/install/YOUR_LICENSE_KEY)”

Can you link me to what you found?

Campfire

Super simple group chat, without a subscription. And you get the code, too.

ONCE
Show threadfrongtSep 6, 2025
github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
GitHub - basecamp/once-campfire

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GitHub
Show threadLifeInMultipleChoice
Thanks man, I’ll probably end up giving that a shot later tonight or tomorrow afternoon then, nothing to lose, and it keeps me from spending money I don’t have on a day off
Sep 6, 2025 at 1:06amWeb