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XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hi. I have a group of 6 people using Discord to chat. Recently Discord changed a lot and we're looking for an alternative. We have a few requirements:

Good client on multiple platforms
Easy to use search
Self hosted
Permanently saved chat history & attachments on server (no expiration)
Easy image upload (Ctrl+V to post image from clipboard)

IRC isn't an option as chat history is saved on the client, and there's no good integrated way to share files and preview images. Matrix would be an overkill as we're a small group not interested in federation, and the available clients had a few bugs. Mattermost lacks a good mobile app (their current one had bunch of bugs). XMPP appears to be the best as it is extensible and has many clients available.

However, I tried configuring prosody on my FreeBSD server and it seems like it doesn't permanently save chat history or attachment files. Does anyone know if these can be solved? Or is there any better alternative than XMPP?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol for email
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Prosody claims to support Message Archive Management and HTTP file sharing, sounds like the feature you want, or at least it is close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah it seems to have bunch of plugins but it's not working well for some reason.. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which flavor of XMPP you tried?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As I mentioned in the OP I tried Prosody on my FreeBSD server, I've yet to get attachments working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh sorry, misread exactly this part. I've had great experience with ejabberd, maybe worth trying it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Signal is a good alternatives as you can group call and screen share (no audio), share images and videos etc. Messages are saved locally on devices unless a timer is set on the chat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks, but it's not ideal for our usage, it's not selfhosted and there aren't many clients available. Plus it doesn't have unlimited message and attachments history.

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