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sdelements / lets-chat

Self-hosted chat app for small teams
http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat
MIT License
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Is this project still alive? #781

Open plentylife opened 6 years ago

plentylife commented 6 years ago

There haven't been any commits in months. Is this project alive?

hhaidar commented 6 years ago

Sadly no, we've all been very busy at our company and haven't had the bandwidth to work on this thing.

plentylife commented 6 years ago

What is it that you've been working on, if you don't mind me asking?

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Sadly no, we've all been very busy at our company and haven't had the bandwidth to work on this thing.

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hhaidar commented 6 years ago

Haha I'm not sure why you'd be interested, but mainly a react rewrite of SD Elements (our main app) and now I'm working on a new product with a new team.

plentylife commented 6 years ago

Curiosity killed the cat :P

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Haha I'm not sure why you'd be interested, but mainly a react rewrite of SD Elements (our main app) and now I'm working on a new product with a new team.

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RoestVrijStaal commented 6 years ago

@hhaidar Which rival of Let's chat would you recommend?

hhaidar commented 6 years ago

@RoestVrijStaal probably @mattermost or RocketChat. I can't really comment though, because I haven't ran them apart from demos.

If it helps, our company ended up switching to @slackhq last January.

plentylife commented 6 years ago

Mattermost is open source, slack is not.

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@RoestVrijStaal https://github.com/RoestVrijStaal probably @mattermost https://github.com/mattermost or RocketChat. I can't really comment though, because I haven't ran them apart from demos.

If it helps, our company ended up switching to @slackhq https://github.com/slackhq last January.

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LizAinslie commented 5 years ago

@hhaidar i love lets chat, because of its light footprint on my server and easy manageability, so i have forked it and i cant wait to see where it goes, i will continue with implementing markdown support first then move on to features like direct messages etc, if you all want to follow it, you can see my fork 😃

strypey commented 3 years ago

Hi @LizAinslie , are you still maintaining this fork? FYI I curate a list of potential free code replacements for Slack. It's worth considering software that implements a federation protocol like XMPP (Snikket) or matrix (Element or Gitter), so you don't end up stuck in yet another chat silo.

LizAinslie commented 3 years ago

@strypey unfortunately I am not. My company, Synapse Technologies, will provide its own chat solution but it will also be closed-source. While Matrix and XMPP protocol support are in consideration and for the most part planned, on-premises licensing will be priced according to enterprise service as per the business model we operate on. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is all in early stages, and enterprise licensing won't be made available until November 2021. I guess I ought to plug the Synapse website here for anyone who may be interested, even though there's nothing but an NGINX default page there as of yet. (I'll get the landing transferred from our old host soon, but for now enjoy NGINX: https://synapsetech.dev)

And while the paid licensing isn't exactly what a lot of people want to hear, all Synapse services (including our chat service) will be free (/freemium) for individual users to benefit from, so it's not entirely locked down to enterprise plans.

And it goes without saying that we may also shift our plans towards open-source community releases alongside the full-fledged option.

TL;DR is no, I am not still maintaining my fork, but I will have an alternative to offer in the very near future.

Sorry for the (absurdly) late response by the way, I've been out for a while for personal reasons. Hope I helped though!