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01232020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2022

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Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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I mean, it is great to see people get into security stuff and build chat stuff. But I have some points on your "philisophy". You hate big billion dollar Companies? Well, your domain is hosted on AWS so are the servers. To prrof your point, you should've got the domain somewhere else and host the serveres somewhere else. Additionally, how is the weather in Middlesex, GB? Now to the software side. Man is that repo a mess. I mean, you put a lot of work into the documents which is great, but until you find the damn source code of the actual important shit it takes years. (if anyone interested it is this billion character long mess: https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar...). What am I trying to say here? Great to see people starting coding. But split the project up or at least order it. The source of the server should be
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on click on `src` and done. Maybe extract the client to another repo. Hide the whole deployment stuff in another folder. We people who click the link to github want to see code. Not configuration stuff. First look matters. And, if you want to be so "security hacker like nobody knows", create fancy profile picture with no face. Get a decent username no hash gabage. Hide your WhoIs Information from the domain. If you care about security and "not being dependent on multi billion dollar companies that collect all our data", don't use AWS. Go to a decent server hosting n your country (or where privacy matters). Did this wake my interest? Yes. Got I disapointed? Yeah. Did I got disappointed way more than I thought? Definitely. Would I trust this app even if the source code would be readable in any way? No because security is expert stuff. That's why we have Matrix, Signal, Threema (which is open-source now too). Is this a little harsh? Yes, but this is the Internet. Do I want you to re-make the project in a more professional way? Yes, because that is the best pratice to become a better developer. Sorry for the hard comment. I hope you take it as an motivation. Always fall to learn, always come back stronger.
In Show HN: I Made a Chat Server

So I am creating a chat server

live demo is here : https://temporary.chat/ the main goals are : - easy to use - can be hosted anywhere - requires no login (except the ones generated automatically) - nothing to install client side (I had to compromise on this one, push notifications on mobile are hell, just get an rss reader and enable notifications!) - have very few outside dependencies. (you can even run it without a domain name!) - something that is secure (security is not a finite state :) ) complete vision is here : https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/m… how to deploy is here : https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/m… you can : - upload documents - destroy the room in one click (everything in there is file based, real "rm -rf" :) ) - post data t
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o it with curl - get all notifications via rss - get a notification via rss only when someone pings you - get desktop notifications (mobile is hard man) and I sprinkled a bit of javascript (no external sources) so your grandmother and your less tech savvy friends can upload a picture/song/video how to deploy is here : https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/blob/s… and stable code here : https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporary.chat-playbook/tree/s… I posted a few months back, hope it is not considered spammy. I consider posting again in 3 months since it is pretty much a work in progress still! I will concentrate a bit more energy on the api side of things now. any feedback welcome, you can deploy it, attack it, give me constructive bad reviews, I take everything! (you can also use it to post a picture easily to your grandma) enjoy!
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DISCLAIMER : This project is in development, I still have to add some security and features. I started working on a personal project to create my own chat server (web based) that can be hosted pretty much everywhere (on ubuntu 20.04) (virtual machines, personal computers, public clouds, vps, bare metal at home, etc.) and that requires no client installation, just a browser. it is now in beta but works for text and file sharing (up to 100M by default but you can change that) the source code is here : https://github.com/ba9f11ecc3497d9993b933fdc2bd61e5/temporar... (see README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md ) deployments are done with ansible and 2 modes are available for now : single room and random rooms rooms can be either public or password protected. All rooms are destroyable with a single click (a real destroy that actually remove the files. E
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ncryption is done by default either with let's encrypt (if you deploy on a domain or subdomain) or a certification authority where the key gets destroyed after the only certificate is created (if you deploy on an ip) (a helper page is created to show the fingerprint of the certificate and instruction per browser on how to install the cert) I plan to add more deployment modes in the future (rooms with customized names, expert mode to submit gpg messages via an api) screenshot of the chat page & landing pages can be found here : https://imgur.com/a/vhiiy8j or you can try it live at : https://temporary.chat/ any enthusiasts that want to deploy one at home, any experts that want to point security flaws, any user that want to report a bug or a lack of features. Any UX experts that think I made a terrible job are more than welcome to comment. My mail address can be found in the repo. Hopefully somebody else than me will see value in this project :) thank you for reading!
In Deploy your own messaging system with file transfer at home (web based)

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

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