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Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

Regner

@regner.blok-andersen.com

17 Feb

Please don’t put SSO behind paywall. It turns me and many others off of a project very quickly. One of the biggest issues I have with Discord is how it locks information away. Will it be possible to make channels, especially forum type ones, visible and indexed by search engines?

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

SSO: Chatto will in fact be SSO-only, so it's not going to be behind a paywall at all! (But it'll initially only speak OIDC, so if you need SAML/LDAP/OAuth, you'll need to bridge it with another IdP.)

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Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

17 Feb

re public rooms, yes, Chatto will allow you to make individual rooms public (but only in a read-only manner.) You can put rooms into different modes (chat, forum, social feed) and use those for your public comms, too.