Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box

[djxx]

@murgero - sorry, not seeing an option to PM you. Can you give us an update here on how Snikket is working for you? I'm willing to put some money towards making a custom app for this. I think doing Snikket + 2-3 more configuration options will be enough for more self hosters.

[archos]

Hi, I just want to dust off the XMPP discussion a bit. It's a real shame that there is no XMPP on Cloudron yet. I've been using Snikket for maybe 4 years on another VPS and in all that time there hasn't been a problem. I'm just doing server updates. Snikket is really fast and hassle free for a smaller group. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough to install Snikket on Cloudron. It would be really great if an app could be added to Cloudron.

[girish]

@archos running prosody is a big challenge with so many options. Unfortunately, we (cloudron team) has no expertise in this to even package prosody reliably. It's one of the reasons we gave up on jitsi too. It's too complex and not clear what is needed and what is not.

[LoudLemur]

@girish We have been running Jitsi on Cloudron for agest and it still works well.

I hope somebody can manage XMPP on Cloudron for us soon.

[archos]

@girish Yes, I understand. Thank you for the information.

[LoudLemur]

Snicket seems to only have clients for Android and Mac:
https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aapp+org%3Asnikket-im&type=repositories

[jdaviescoates]

Here is the web portal:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-web-portal

And here are the self-hosting instructions:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-selfhosted

And here is the source repository for building Snikket service Docker images:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-server

[murgero]

@LoudLemur Snikket is just an XMPP server - any XMPP client that supports the same XMPP Extensions it uses it will work fine.

[LoudLemur]

Lets support XMPP on Cloudron by packaging Snickket! There is an ai summary of progress since @robi made the original request here:

https://privatebin.demo.cloudron.io/?39e1a2ac0124f319#7wVtyc66t51BK2SpX7TudDPVpZm5sDqSmJCDvsrBqCXn

[djxx]

Thanks for the upvote! I'm biased, but I think Prosody is the better choice. Snikket has too many things they do not (and possibly never will) support. The #1 reason I didn't package Snikket is not being able to use my TLD for accounts. It's a common convention to use user@domain.com for both e-mail and XMPP, but Snikket doesn't support this. The #2 reason is SSO - Snikket doesn't support it but SSO is one of my favorite features of most Cloudron apps.