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Ask HN: Self hosted user friendly chat app for family?
I am looking for a self hosted chat solution I can use with my family. As I will self host it, I do not care about end to end encryption (SSL is fine).
I am currently running conduit with the matrix.org protocol.
Protocol is very complicated (and things like sending messages from a web hook for example is complex). Also, I tried to join federated rooms, but my client (element) just crash. So I don't really care about keeping my server.
I want to change mostly because I don't get mobile push notifications (and some features I want below are missing).
I tried different matrix clients but none are really nice and tick all the boxes, so I don't feel like keeping my server.
I don't care about the protocol, I know XMPP and IRC which are both "OK", but something proprietary but open source would be fine.
On the client side, I have a hard time to find the following features:
required:
- android and linux client
- mobile notifications (on android)
- read receipt
- inline images
- message edit
- message deletion
nice to have:
- easy gif sending (like being able to post a tenor or similar gif)
- stickers
- link preview
I wonder if the collective HN brain has any idea.
Cheers
- guilhas 4y agoI would use Jami, it is not self hosted, but it is p2p, and does not require phone number or email
- jqpabc123 4y agoI have been tempted to produce something similar as a progressive web app that will work in any browser. Thus far, I haven't found the time to do it.
- kgodey 4y agoI maintain a Synapse homeserver for our open source project and it seems to work fine, I don't know how different it is from Conduit. Other open source and self-hosted chat apps I've heard of but haven't used are Mattermost[1] and Rocket.chat[2]. [1] https://mattermost.com/ https://mattermost.com/ [2] https://www.rocket.chat/ https://www.rocket.chat/
- kuon 4y agoI installed a mattermost instance, and while a little bit overkill, it has all the features I need.
- kgodey 4y agoI'm glad it works for you! It does seem like it's targeted towards enterprise customers so it makes sense that it's a bit overkill for your needs.
- kuon 4y agoLast time I tried synapse, it was very very resource hungry. I can give it another try, but I found no matrix client with the features I'd like.