***** 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 < [email protected]> 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 > > -- > craig sanders <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main >
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