Show HN: Open-Source Fully Featured Scalable Chat App (FFS Chat)

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20 points·thisisjofrank··6 comments

This uses a proprietary service as the "scalable chat app" part. I can't help but think that calling this an "open-source [..] scalable chat app" is somewhat misleading.

Having spent time this week looking at open source chat packages this is a wonderful surprise.

I realize your focus is on the messaging, auth, Storage, etc., but I'm betting adding a screenshot of the UI to the readme.md would significantly increase adoption of the project.

Oh this is a great idea, thank you!

JW, have you seen any self-hosted anonymous, no registration, e2e encrypted, ephemeral messaging tools? Bonus points for mobile apps that prevent screen caps.

I'd love a Bring-Your-Own-Network with above features that doesn't require SMS, email, etc. registration that "private" apps like Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, etc have to growth hack to mainstream adoption.

scanned through, looks nicer than I expected. I see nothing about moderating / handling the various abuse things..

I'm always looking for better chat systems, so far matrix (+ element or fluffy or whatever) is the best for my use case / publicly facing chat.

Perhaps a feature comparison with matrix / ffs chat would make it easier to decide to try or not.

Thats a great idea, we'll definitely get some feature comparisons up.

Re moderation/profanity filtering etc we're definitely planning on bringing that in with future work. I'll get a board of future work up and write up some issues to make it clearer what is planned.

Thank you so much for taking a look!

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