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 threadScott Murray Mar 1
@scuttlebutt If you don’t mind… how do you expose services to the public internet? I also have a Synology NAS but don’t trust myself to get the security right. 😅
Show threadFarticle Accelerator🇨🇦Mar 1
@scott I use the login portal reverse proxy to do some forwarding of http/https things to various docker stacks. The native synology stuff handles the http/https redirect and the tls certs.

This instance, my photos instance, and other things run fine that way.

You might want to look at the various howto guides at mariushosting.com which is where I gleaned some of my knowledge from about synology specifics.

Caveat Emptor, I am a retired sysadmin/network-admin/storage-admin and have that experience to lean on to take the things from Marius etc and make them behave the way I want to.
Show threadScott Murray 

@scuttlebutt Thank you very much!

I have seen Markus’s site - he has some great tutorials. Thanks for the reminder. :)

Mar 1 at 4:26amWeb