Discreetly is an anonymous and federated chat application. Under the hood it uses a zero-knowledge protocol called RLN (Rate-Limiting Nullifier) to rate limit messages per user. Read more about RLN.

• Truly anonymous
  • It uses RLN to prove you are a member of a room, but not who you are.
  • If you don't trust the server, run your own
• Federated
  • Run your own server, and use the same frontend as everyone else, or run your own frontend too.
• Spammers are banned
  • If someone tries to send messages faster than the rate limit allowed, they are automatically banned, and there is no unban.

• Rooms
• Admin
• Discord
• Ethereum

• Clone the Frontend and Server

SSH

git clone git@github.com:Discreetly/server.git
git clone git@github.com:Discreetly/frontend.git

HTTPS

git clone https://github.com/Discreetly/server.git
git clone https://github.com/Discreetly/frontend.git

Install Dependencies

cd Discreetly/server && npm i
cd Discreetly/frontend && npm i

Set Server Environment Variables

PASSWORD=""
NODE_ENV="development"
DATABASE_URL=""
DATABASE_URL_TEST=""
THEWORD_ITERATION=''
DISCORD_PASSWORD=''

• PASSWORD and DISCORD_PASSWORD set the password for express-basic-auth in server routes. The default usernames are admin and discordAdmin.
• DATABASE_URL and DATABASE_URL_TEST are MongoDB Atlas URL's - you can use the same for both or a seperate cluster for testing
• THEWORD_ITERATION Is used to keep track of what iteration the_word is on for seperate rooms

Initalize Prisma

cd Discreetly/server && npx prisma init && npx prisma db push

Seed the Database

npx prisma db seed

Run the Frontend and Server

cd Discreetly/server && npm run dev
cd Discreetly/frontend && npm run dev

Using Discreetly

The frontend is hosted at http://localhost:5173/ The server is hosted at http://localhost:3001/

• You'll be presented with this homepage where you can create an identity

• Here you can join rooms through different gateways

  • With invite codes, you can join any rooms if you generate codes for them
  • The Alpha Testers room is a general room for the public
  • Jubmoji's were presented and collected by participants at ZuConnect and DevConnect
  • Ethereum rooms currently setup are for Beacon Chain Genesis Depositors and Stateful Genesis Funders addresses
  • The Word

• Chat rooms

  • Chat rooms have an epoch time (rate limit) and a message limit. Seen in the top right of the chat rooms
  • Messages are color coded by their SocketIO session ID to help keep track of the flow of conversations