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Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source!
from piotrkulpinski@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 22:07
https://lemmy.world/post/35502519

Hi!

DHH (co-founder of Basecamp) announced yesterday that they’re making their group chat software open source and free for everyone to use. This is fantastic news, especially considering this piece of software previously required a $299 payment just to access the codebase (far too expensive, in my opinion).

It looks like we now have another excellent open source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams, thanks to this move. I really hope more companies will follow this trend soon.

What are your thoughts?

#selfhosted

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shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol on 05 Sep 22:51 next collapse

This isn’t nearly enough to change my opinion of DHH, an out-and-proud piece of shit.

damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 22:57 collapse

Please tell me more about this. I don’t know enough to know what to dislike him about.

I only saw him recently talking about his Omarchy thing. Seemed too opinionated.

FBJimmy@lemmus.org on 05 Sep 23:36 collapse

I also wasn’t aware so had a search.

If you don’t mind Reddit, this thread is interesting… reddit.com/…/can_someone_explain_what_happened_wi…

Or there’s this… theverge.com/…/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employe…

Edit: Actually this is probably the most comprehensive summary: schneems.com/…/the-room-where-it-happens-how-rail…

neclimdul@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 05:17 collapse

That’s a more recent flare up but DHH has been “ruffling feathers” for a while to put it politely. tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 23:19 next collapse

Not sure what I’ll use this for yet, but I’m going to see if I can host it tonight I guess. Didn’t have anything else planned .

Edit: or not… still looks like you need a paid license at this point

Canconda@lemmy.ca on 05 Sep 23:23 next collapse

Siiiiiighhh *unzips (rar file)

frongt@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 00:05 collapse

Where do you see that? The repo says you should be able to clone and run it.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 00:26 collapse

I used the link listed on the post above, and it brings you to their website. (once.com/campfire) Then I tried to search for an install for Linux and was finding

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL auth.once.com/install/YOUR_LICENSE_KEY)”

Can you link me to what you found?

frongt@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 00:32 collapse

github.com/basecamp/once-campfire

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 01:06 collapse

Thanks man, I’ll probably end up giving that a shot later tonight or tomorrow afternoon then, nothing to lose, and it keeps me from spending money I don’t have on a day off

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 05 Sep 23:47 next collapse

Here’s the link to the basecamp/once-campfire GitHub repo.

I’ve got X blocked on all my personal devices but I opened the tweet on my work computer to retrieve it.

otter@lemmy.ca on 06 Sep 00:37 next collapse

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Sep 01:15 next collapse

I’m been trying to stand up a zulip instance. It’s working but I haven’t used it much. I want a feature complete jitsi instance to go with it and that’s only partially implemented right now.

That said, zulip does seem like the best option for me presently.

Haven’t tried revolt.

Mattermost seems to be perpetually entangled but being disentangled from some other suite. Confusing and frustrating.

I haven’t tried rocket chat for 5 years or so. I think last time I read about it people were complaining that the FOSS plan is very limited.

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 01:52 collapse

Revolt can’t be considered viable in my mind until the mobile app stops hardcoding the official instance and lets users connect it to selfhosted instances.

femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Sep 22:54 collapse

That and SSO.

null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Sep 01:16 next collapse

Are there any restrictions on a FOSS instance? Is there a pay wall?

lime_red@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 03:11 next collapse

Sigh, why build this with Ruby on rails :/

HopeCraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Sep 04:38 next collapse

They, the owning company, also created Rails. So everything they have is made with it.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 07 Sep 21:20 collapse

Ruby on Rails developer here, why is that bad? Honestly Python feels old and shitty, PHP is a joke, and I can’t think of any other language I’d prefer.

lime_red@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 05:43 collapse

(It was a joke about DHH creating ROR, and a company owned by DHH creating a product using ROR.)

m33@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 08:18 next collapse

How does it compare to mattermost or rocketchat?

I was a mattermost admin on a pretty big corporate instance ages ago, it faded out not because of teams but because of lacking integration with productivity software.

Actually we were denied integration efforts because trust issues OSS vs corpo. How ironic today when pretty much everything is tied to a foreign cloud ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Kynn@jlai.lu on 08 Sep 04:55 collapse

I don’t see how it replaces anything without audio & video calls. Doesn’t mattermost already cover this scope…? And a lot of other open source softwares… For me, the rarest and dearest feature is these fixed call channels you have in discord. Matrix and element have them, but their ui is shit. I’m waiting for it to be implemented on Cinny, there is a PR for that.