Survey: Who is self-hosting Circular?

[julien-c]

Hello all,

I'm currently considering a backend rewrite for Circular, switching from PHP and maybe using a different DB engine.

Who is currently self-hosting Circular, so that I can assess how much of an impact that would represent on the community?

Best,

Julien

[lauris]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Time could be spent better, e.g., on implementing features and fixing bugs.

I am going to try self-host version of Circular today. However to use it fully, I will probably have to implement persistent user sessions and fix twitter auth bug (currently it wants to autorize Circular app on every login).

[julien-c]

Hi @lauris,

Thanks for your input. Circular is a side project for me so it's also a way to learn new technologies and be a technological testbed of sort.

What's the issue with user sessions? They should be persistent.

[lauris]

Well in that case, you should definitely do that. I was already using Circular.io and the app is pretty nice :)

Just checked the issue with sessions, seems that they are persistent indeed, but somehow I got the impression that they are not. Proably because I got logged out a lot.

[andykenward]

Hi @julien-c ,

Just came across this while looking into buffer alternatives. Have you thought of switching from php to node.js . I would stick with MongoDB

[julien-c]

@andykenward Yes, either Node or Go :)

[cabbeer]

Are you still considering doing a rewrite?

[stp-ip]

I vote for Go ;) and some modularity in social accounts (g+, fb, twitter etc.)

[julien-c]

I will put some work into an API rewrite in the coming days. Still undecided between Node and Go. Anyone interested in helping out?

[cabbeer]

I vote for node!

[potomak]

I'd like to help if you decide to make it in go.

[julien-c]

Guys – I actually have a branch sitting on my work computer with a few days' worth of work into rewriting Circular in Node. I need to get my shit together and actually push the branch now :)

If anyone wants to help: I'm using http://passportjs.org/ for social authentication, mongojs as my Mongo wrapper, and node-twitter.

Pretty swamped by work right now, but I'll try and put some work into finishing this at the end of the month (25/26).

Commenting here will help me keep it up, cheers!

[potomak]

I'm disappointed by your choice, but thanks for all the work you've done so far.

[danielpalstra]

Hi Julien, are you currently still working on Circular? I've been busy building a docker image from the current source and would love to help.

[patbaumgartner]

@danielpalstra is it possible to share your docker image?

[danielpalstra]

Hi @patbaumgartner I would love to share it, but unfortunately I don't have it anymore since I stopped using circular. I was using the composer https://hub.docker.com/r/composer/composer/ docker image in combination with the standard Mongo image.