Open source chat platform
- Markdown-like syntax for messages
- File uploads to S3 or local storage with image thumbnails in the channel
- Inline maths based on MathJax
- Detection of URL's with automatic insertion of thumbnails or description with built-in support for Wikipedia, Youtube, Github and XKCD. It is easy to add support for other sites
- Email notifications sent to users after being mentioned or when they receive private messages if the user didn't read the messages
- Group-based permission system (the user interface for this is not complete yet)
- Message search based on Apache Solr
- Private messages are implemented as a special channel, giving the private chats identical functionality as the main channels
- API that allows for writing external clients
- Messages can be edited and deleted. The edit history of a message is preserved in the database.
Currently there are two separate clients:
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The Emacs client is almost fully functional, and is complete enough to be used in production: https://github.com/lokedhs/potato-emacs
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The Android client is functional, but still ugly. Help is always appreciated: https://github.com/lokedhs/PotatoAndroidTest And yes, the name of the project will change, once it works.
The easiest way to install the application is using Docker. An easy to
use installation using docker-compose can be found here:
https://github.com/lokedhs/potato-docker-compose. Further instructions
can be found the file README.md in that repository.
If you would like to install everything from scratch, a manual
installation guide can be found in docs/INSTALL.md.
Demo installation at: http://potato.dhsdevelopments.com/
No guarantees are made as to the persistence of anything posted on that server.