[HN Gopher] A dive into open chat protocols
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       A dive into open chat protocols
        
       Author : Bogdanp
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-07-30 19:00 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | tomjuggler wrote:
       | I'm adding chat to my site, and I'm writing it from scratch.
       | Somebody stop me!
       | 
       | The anime is great by the way, way better than cloudflare
       | checkbox - where can I hire her to protect my chat users?
        
         | davidee wrote:
         | I believe the tool is Anubis:
         | https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
        
       | alrs wrote:
       | I've been running a Prosody server for a month or so. Thus far a
       | positive experience.
        
       | rascul wrote:
       | > IRCv3 is probably an interesting story but I don't know
       | anything about it right now; are there people out there trying to
       | use it?
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       | It's in use right now on Libera.
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       | https://libera.chat
       | 
       | But if they don't care for IRC then v3 probably won't do much for
       | them.
        
       | weitendorf wrote:
       | I looked into this recently too and ran into the same issues with
       | Matrix. How the hell did they manage to make chat so complicated?
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       | I found Zulip pretty interesting because it's made a lot of smart
       | UX decisions that let it double as a kind of inbox/task system
       | and serve needs like customer support pretty well.
       | 
       | My main worry would actually be that even though I prefer its UX,
       | the complexity and 2010s-style design would churn some first time
       | users. If anybody has used it for engaging with external users
       | I'd be very keen to learn how that went
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | > and ran into the same issues with Matrix. How the hell did
         | they manage to make chat so complicated?
         | 
         | The cynical side in me thinks that Matrix was invented by big
         | social media companies trying to keep Open Source from
         | dominating the chat space.
        
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