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RocketChat
Rocket.Chat
TypeScript2015–2026
RocketChat / Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat
The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesROrocketChat·Nov 8, 2018
Depends on your security requirements:
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/10793#issueco...
In Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much moreSame for the RocketChat developers:
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/10793
"We do not disclose security fixes as soon we have them fixed to prevent bad guys to exploit them."
"as soon we have" means never.
They believe bad guys would not monitor the commits of target products.
In You can't contain me: elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Docker for WindowsI wish it had color text input support. At my last job, they were looking to replace IRC with RocketChat, and that was a big let down. I even submitted a PR for "Colored Markup" (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/8639/commits)
In Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternativeWhat bothers me the most with the current on-premises chat solutions is the lack of a true alternative for jabber/xmpp with OTR (or equivalent e2e encryption) support.
I honestly hate that in 2018 there is no way to move away from Pidgin/Adium if you want to keep this functionality.
- RocketChat - OTR breaks very easily, and https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/10094 has been open for months
- Matrix / Riot - Last I tried it had the most complex and unusable interface
- Mattermost - At first glance seems to include E2E, but when reading a little bit more...not really, just at rest encryption - https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-669
- Zulip - nop - https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6096
- Movim - nop - https://github.com/movim/movim/issues/63
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In Slack Is Buying HipChat from AtlassianAsk HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?
I came across Perkeep[1] project today. I know some other self-hosted solutions like Rocket chat[2](Slack alternative), Redmine[3](Project management) etc. Curious what other self-hosted are there and which one you are using?
[1]: https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep
[2]: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
[3]: http://www.redmine.org/
147 points · Open discussionPersistent XSS in Rocket.Chat username
1 points · Open discussionI've started doing this as a hobby, to see how many services I regularly use can be replaced. They're all behind an nginx reverse proxy + letsencrypt cert on a hetzner box.
IRC: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/ (Use a lot, and it works decently well)
Cloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ (Works surprisingly well, however, I've heard there are security issues)
Analytics: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/ (I'm comparing how much I'd lose out compared to google analytics, if I ever move away from it)
Chat: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/ (never really use it, just wanted to see how it works)
Git: https://github.com/gogits/gogs (Mostly for mirroring git repos)
Browser IDE: https://icecoder.net/ (I'm able to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself)
Calibre library front end: https://github
Read the rest
.com/janeczku/calibre-web
Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it)
Linkshortener: https://github.com/LINKIWI/linkr (occasional use)
Mail + mailbox + webmail: https://mailcow.email/ (Had to spend a bit more time, but now it is able to deliver mails to gmail/outlook/icloud without issues. I use it as a mailing solution for all the selfhosted projects which need smtp)
Online Markdown editor: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger (Used quite a few times)
Minecraft server
Music streaming: https://github.com/phanan/koel/ (I'm not a native english speaker, so quite a few songs I listen to aren't on spotify)
Neo4j, mongodb, mysql and postgres: For all database needs.
Server monitoring: https://github.com/firehol/netdata
Photos: https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free (I use it quite a lot to host images I'd have used imgur instead)
R Studio server, and Jupyter notebooks: For work/hobby programming
I've had a lot of help from https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
I"ve had to move from one VPS provider to another while testing, so I have a handy guide for setting up quick here: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup .
I have a separate guide for hosting each of the above projects behind an nginx with https, but its quite rough right now. So its private.
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat: Have your own Slack like online chat, built with Meteor
1 points · Open discussion