Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦Mar 1
Looking for a simple self hosted chat system for non technical end users.

We got everyone off FB messaging to sms but the android peeps have old devices which I think is part of why they see blurry low res images sent from iPhones. Or Apple botched RCS implementation.

I have a Synology nas and have tried syno chat (clunky) and rocket chat via docker (too many bells and whistles and overly complex onboarding of end users)

Suggestions?

Anything that can spin up in a docker instance, I will try.

#selfhositng #chat
Show threadChris SiebenmannMar 1
@scuttlebutt Various people I follow are saying that IRCv3 is actually good now™ as a plausible Discord/Slack/etc replacement, for what that's worth. I don't know if there's a web interface to it yet (one that takes advantage of all of the IRCv3 features that make it good).
Show threadFarticle Accelerator🇨🇦
@cks Hrmm. Maybe if there were a simplified client. Worth checking into, thanks.
Mar 1 at 4:16amWeb
Show threadBen ZaninMar 1

@scuttlebutt @cks there are three different useful IRCv3 web clients that I know of so far:

1. TheLounge, https://thelounge.chat , which has a decently simple UI but is a bit complex to set up

2. Gamja, https://codeberg.org/emersion/gamja , which is pretty barebones from a UI perspective but requires serving only a WebSocket server and static files

3. KiwiIRC, https://kiwiirc.com , is decently full featured but a bit more complex to set up.

Libera offers Kiwi and Gamja: https://libera.chat/guides/webchat

The Lounge

The Lounge is a self-hosted web IRC client for the modern world.

The Lounge
Show threadBen ZaninMar 1
@scuttlebutt @cks for mobile app use Goguma seems simple but quite good so far: https://goguma.im
Goguma IRC Client