***** Actually replying to the list this time ******** HI Craig, Potentially i have miss interpreted your question but we are currently looking into Rocket Chat...... Essentially host your own Slack. https://rocket.chat/ The bundles (server/client) are super easy to deploy and you can have win/linux/mac/android/IOS clients. NIck On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 17:27, Craig Sanders via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Anyone know of a decent local-LAN chat program?
I've tried the Bonjour (i.e. avahi) module for pidin but it's just unreliable.
I don't know whether it's pidgin that's the problem or whether it's because avahi is more half-arsed Poettering garbage, but I've spent hours fucking around with it on multiple occasions, think i've got it working OK, and then the next time either I or my partner try to use it to send notes to each other, it just doesn't fucking work.
I suspect, but am not sure, that either pidgin or avahi gets confused because all machines on my LAN have multiple addresses on different subnets - this is too useful for VMs and docker images and other stuff to even consider changing just for a chat program.
If I had to, I could set up an irc or xmpp server or something but that seems like overkill for this.
So, can anyone recommend a no-frills, no-fuss LAN chat that just works? Even tips on making pidgin + bonjour work reliably would be great.
Preferably something better than the ancient ytalk.
craig
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