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Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative (github.com)

submitted 3 months ago by briffy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Since Discord announced they're going to help Petie T collect selfies of us all I've been working on a self hosted alternative mostly for my mates. I had five goals in mind when I started this:

Text Channels
Voice channels
Screen Sharing
End to end encrypted DMs
Able to run on pretty much any web hosting

I've reached that point now and figured why not slap the GPL on it and send it out into the wild.

I'm sure there'll be lots of bugs and I don't think it will scale well. I never set out to make something that would grow into a behemoth that's used for customer support and all sorts of shit.

The goal was to make something that covers that trifecta of text/voice/screensharing, without relying on P2P connectivity, and able to do it well for small groups of people.

There are more features I have in mind if it gets any interest:

Rate limiting on backend requests
Quasar app with the ability to add more than one server (the frontend is already built in Quasar and I started writing some code for it but I'm mostly building this for myself + friends where I host my own instance so I've not given it much attention)

So yeah, I'm not a professional dev, this is a hobby for me. Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

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[–] RetroHax@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

eh while i appreciate this Project i do also think that contributing to Software like Matrix or XMPP would be better as theyre actually used in Production and Companies :P

[–] briffy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I'm with you, I love Matrix as a concept but the experience of actually running it was a major headache for me.

I'd love to contribute to those projects but anyone that's read through my repo for this will see I'm not that good. It took me a long ass time to figure out end to end encryption and those projects are built on it. 😅

I also feel like they fit a different niche, at least matrix does, I'm not too familiar with XMPP. I've said in other replies, I'm not looking to make something that's infinitely scalable or federates with other services, just a relatively simple chat app that someone can have running for their group of gamer friends. If it can do text/voice/screen share with minimal setup/fuss/external dependencies then I'm a happy boy. I kinda had this idea in my head that I'd like to get it to the point where you can upload a tar.gz to cheapo web hosting, untar, follow the setup wizard and have comms ready to go without having to mess around in config files and what not.