Rallly - alternative to Doodle

[marcusquinn]

@nebulon Sometimes I think apps that don't have much recent development can be that way just because they are complete and stable

[marcusquinn]

Think I prefer Croodle: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3282/croodle-alternative-to-doodle/4

[jdaviescoates]

Just FYI, I reached out to the Rallly developer on Twitter. Doesn't sound like the new version is coming any time soon, and possibly wont even be open source by the sounds of it:

https://twitter.com/imlukevella/status/1311969867403341826

[marcusquinn]

Odd, just had my demo access invite email, but codebase doesn't seem active: https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly

[jdaviescoates]

@marcusquinn I think he's doing a complete rewrite and hasn't yet open sourced the latest code

See https://twitter.com/imlukevella/status/1311969867403341826?s=20&t=fXFyiDJwwaQwdAD1y5jvrw

[A Former User]

Yeah I wouldn't suggest using the current version. I'd be curious about the vulnerabilities in the node dependencies given that the last update to them was 3 years ago

[girish]

@marcusquinn said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

Doesn't seem to do timezones, which is a handy feature with remote international teams but I signed up for a preview and the dev seems to be aware of that: https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly/issues/22

This got fixed recently, time to give this a packaging try.

[main.wheel7527]

It seems now there are updates, it seems to work good and it's good looking.
https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

time to give this a packaging try.

How far did you get? Be great to finally have a doodle alternative on Cloudron!

[msbt]

No idea why, but today I felt like building something and here it is:
https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/rallly-app

There are a few caveats:

• There are no official tags or releases, this package clones the latest files from the Github repo, which may be problematic at some point.
• yarn build didn't work with symlinks, so the workaround is as follows:
  • yarn is being triggered in the Dockerfile
  • on startup the files are being copied to /run/rallly
  • from there yarn prisma migrate deploy, yarn build and finally yarn start are being triggered in start.sh - not sure if /run is being emptied at some point, but I've added a check to copy and run the commands again if this should happen
• There are no user accounts, everyone can use your instance (it's possible to add Cloudron auth to it, but that somewhat defeats the point when sending out emails to a non-public site. That said, maybe only some endpoints could be protected, but again, the dev might change those along the way and it will stop working)
• I don't think you can edit the main page, so you basically have a clone of their site

Other than that I only tested for a bit but the important things seems to be working (i.e. email, export,...)

[girish]

@msbt The front page issue is discussed here - https://github.com/lukevella/rallly/discussions/137

[jdaviescoates]

@msbt said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

I don't think you can edit the main page, so you basically have a clone of their site

I wonder if Kukkee might better in this regard, looks like another one to explore at least (although seems like it's still early days).

Edit: Framadate too, of course, from the good people at Framasoft (and also the app in this space that currently has the most upvotes in the wishlist)

[marcusquinn]

Rallly has the best UI/UX and active development of all of them by far, IMHO. This would be my top pick. Great work @msbt

[marcusquinn]

Seems to handle timezones too.

[nebulon]

This is published as unstable. Forum section is at https://forum.cloudron.io/category/154/rallly