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Shout: The self-hosted web IRC client
- colinbartlett 11y agoIt's great to see projects have detailed deployment instructions for getting up and running very quickly: http://shout-irc.com/docs/deployment/docker.html http://shout-irc.com/docs/deployment/docker.html I've seen some projects now even have "Deploy to Heroku" buttons, which is fantastic. I wish Digital Ocean had something similar. Looks like you should be able to run this on a cheap $5 droplet?
- spdustin 11y agoYou mean like this? https://github.com/seven1m/do-install-button https://github.com/seven1m/do-install-button
- fiatjaf 11y agoA cheap $5 droplet can run 20 instances of this, probably.
- giancarlostoro 11y agoI believe so considering this is just a client for the most part, so long as you don't have 10,000 people trying to use it all at once.
- improv32 11y agoI did in fact run this on a cheap $5 droplet, along with an apache2 server. Worked fine except it crashes about once a week, I think due to memory usage. I switched to weechat in a tmux session
- hardwaresofton 11y agoThanks for including a demo, I enjoyed getting the preview and using it. It looks like a bunch of people from HN are enjoying it right now as well.
- vertex-four 11y agoI've been using this as my primary IRC client for a while now, and am really enjoying it, aside from it being difficult to reconnect to IRC servers when it occasionally disconnects. It's perfect for use with Chromebooks, tablets, and similar.
- xena 11y agoI run this for PonyChat and run into memory leaking issues. It runs out of memory on a 1 GB node about weekly.
- Kihashi 11y agoI've been using it for over 6 months now with multiple users connected to multiple servers with quite a few active channels. I've had it crash from memory leaks (on a 1GB Linode VPS) once in all that time. Maybe PonyChat is just waaaay more active than the channels I'm in? At the moment, HTOP reports it using about 17% of my memory.
- josegonzalez 11y agoNot a memory leak. Messages are persisted in-memory. So more messages == more memory usage.
- duaneb 11y ago> Messages are persisted in-memory. Unbounded storage is a leak. What kind of server would one build that would always eventually crash under completely normal usage?
- felixrieseberg 11y agoIf anyone wants to give Shout a try - you can run it in Azure for free (via free web apps). Also, you can deploy it with one click: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/shout-azure https://github.com/felixrieseberg/shout-azure Disclaimer: Love Shout, just made this
- pieterhg 11y agoIt would be great if you could add some kind of avatar system on top of (or outside of) IRC with this client. Also auto expandable URLs, emoji support and pretty much everything Slack offers. We need an IRC-based Slack alternative badly!
- xena 11y agohttps://matrix.org https://matrix.org
- pieterhg 11y agoNice, web client on mobile isn't responsibe though.
- heavenlyhash 11y agoThere's native mobile clients :)
- scrollaway 11y agoI'm going to put this out there because I'm not sure where else to. Recently I had the need for a better gitter-irc two-way gateway than gitter-irc-bot. Specifically, I wanted to be able to run multiple mirrors off a single bot/account. I started writing a multi-protocol gateway and the goal was to support slack, gitter, mattermost, irc and possibly matrix with a plugin API. Here's the prototype: https://github.com/jleclanche/gitterway https://github.com/jleclanche/gitterway It's in python. I started rewriting it in Go and then found out toml support in go was lacking, then I sort of gave up... if anyone's interested in picking it up, file an issue on there!
- heavenlyhash 11y agoToml support in go is... lacking? Did you try https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml ? That author also wrote a test suite in go that compares all the other toml implementations for interoperability. I'd say it's pretty high quality.
- Scene_Cast2 11y agoI've switched to Matrix[1] with auto-bridging to freenode. It automatically syncs new notifications across all devices, that way when I read something on the desktop, the notifications on my phone are gone. It has a slew of other cool features, too. I use vector.im for desktop and matrix console for android. [1] http://matrix.org/ http://matrix.org/
- codemac 11y agoIs there an emacs client?
- giancarlostoro 11y agoI found this on Google: http://whatthefuck.computer/blog/2015/10/26/mclient/ http://whatthefuck.computer/blog/2015/10/26/mclient/
- codemac 11y agoWonderful! Thank you :)
- mintplant 11y agoThe homepage says > Fully distributed persistent chatrooms with no single points of control or failure but looking at vector.im, channels seem to be based at specific servers, like "#matrix:matrix.org". How does that work? Also, what's the plan to deal with banning spammers and so forth if there's no central control?
- Scene_Cast2 11y agoDisclosure: I'm not a matrix dev. The API intro page[1] is a good start. Basically, a client authenticates with their homeserver. Multiple homeservers can "access" a single room. There is a server-server API for synchronization. I don't know how this maps onto vector.im / matrix.org Lots of good discussion by official devs here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8997844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8997844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267610 Spammers: each room can have mods / admins, just like in IRC. I don't know how bans are enforced on a technical level. [1] http://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.1/intro.html http://matrix.org/docs/spec/r0.0.1/intro.html
- fiatjaf 11y agoI've used this for months. It stops working for no reason. I think it eats up too much memory and keeps increasing memory usage. I don't know, but I know it crashes after a few days.
- artursapek 11y agoClassic node
- jonursenbach 11y agoThat's not a Node problem, it's just a bug in the chat software.
- olalonde 11y agoYes, I believe it keeps the whole message history in memory. I also used it for a few months and had to reboot it once in a while.
- sbarre 11y agoHow are you running it? I've had a shout server running on my DO droplet for 8 months now, and I've never had any issues. I run it using nginx and Passenger (and the setup was quite simple, I had never set up a node app in production before doing this).
- gravypod 11y agoCould you do a blog post or something to show what you did? I used it until I got the crashes just like parent.
- gmfawcett 11y agoWhat does "self-hosted" mean in this context? Just that you host your own instance of the Web application?
- forbiddenlake 11y agoAs a (small) network owner, this is not yet ready to use on the network web site, because it does not support WEBIRC and so all web clients appear to come from the same IP. There's an issue open on GitHub about it.
- rekoros 11y agoWill it work with https://sameroom.io https://sameroom.io?
- pbreit 11y agoLove the clean, simple UI. What utilities were used to build? I see Node, obviously. Socket.io it looks like? Any sort of framework?
- CompConf 11y agoI've used Quassel ( http://www.quassel-irc.org http://www.quassel-irc.org ) for a similar purpose. An Android client, QuasselDroid ( http://quasseldroid.iskrembilen.com/ http://quasseldroid.iskrembilen.com/ ), has been my best IRC experience on Android.
- saltspork 11y agoYou can also get a web UI for Quassel. https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver https://github.com/magne4000/quassel-webserver
- kuschku 11y agoBy the way, we are currently rewriting the Android client — with material design, far more features, and hopefully better notifications. ETA is around April.
- jfuhrman 11y agoI use IRCCloud.com, but this looks very interesting to throw on my Linux server on Google Cloud to play around with.
- M2Ys4U 11y agoYou can self-host Kiwi IRC,[0] which is also a web-based IRC client. Disclosure: I'm one of the Kiwi devs. [0] https://kiwiirc.com https://kiwiirc.com
- gchokov 11y agooh, how I miss the days when everyone was on IRC. Unrelated question, but what is IRC used for nowadays, most often?
- galaktor 11y agoSimilar to mailing lists, IRC might be less mainstream but is still heavily used in niches, i.e. for development and support of open source projects. The simplicity of the protocol makes it easy to use for automation (bots), i.e. CI servers or similar. I've also seen networks dedicated to file sharing.
- gchokov 11y agoInteresting, would never think of CI use! Thanks for the reply!
- rly_ItsMe 11y agoI use ZNC (http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC) as bouncer for years now. It is stable, fully developed, has support for multiple networks, SSL support, IPv6, a Web interface and lots of other features. Plus its easy installed as 'yum install znc'. I did not read any advantage, neither in comfort nor in features that Shout has compared to ZNC. What reason could one have to switch? Except to be on the bleeding edge?
- kehrlann 11y agoInteresting app, I've been using it here and there, mostly with a self-hosted IRC server. More or less a completely self-hosted chat system. The UI is clean, and once it's up and running the experience is pretty smooth for users. However : - Quite a hassle to install and maintain your own IRC server ... - The server stores everything in memory. Pretty neat the first time you use it, but it tends to leak. - Your user DB is just a bunch of json files, with no extensibility built-in. It could really use a "users" plugin, that connects to an external auth system ...