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marcusquinn

@girish More similar to Algolia, and designed as an alternative — a search index via an API.

Example use would be as a drop-in replacement for WordPress search, or any other app where the data could be fed to the index.

marcusquinn

@girish Oh, didn't notice that. Should come with a warning that you're about to download a massive image!

Yeah, LibreChat is might smaller and works without any local models.

I can see use-cases for both, but for most people I think they'll want LibreChat as a way to save on monthly costs for subscriptions to various AI models, as this enables just paying for API token usage, with no monthly fees. Once you see how it works, I think this would be the one you'd personally want to use as a daily driver for these things, too.

marcusquinn

@girish Open WebUI looks more focused on also hosting the open models, so that needs a GPU.

LibreChat is more for using APIs to externally hosted model providers.

I'd say LibreChat is the a more mature development, and appropriate for Cloudron to have first, as it will work with all existing hardware.

It's also one of those apps that pays for itself, in that the alternative of using Poe.com for a team of users is more costly than a Cloudron subscription and hosting.

marcusquinn

Brilliant round of features for quality of life and peace of mind — thank you

marcusquinn

Looks like this has evolved a lot:

@girish What do you think?

Time to add some privacy-focused FOSS AI goodies to Cloudron?

marcusquinn

@girish Amazing!

marcusquinn

@robi needs more upvotes, for that alone!

marcusquinn

Now, of course, we have AI to read Ts & Cs for gotchas.

marcusquinn

@girish said in Plausible (Analytics Platform):

Saw an alternative today - https://github.com/vinceanalytics/vince . Main thing is it doesn't require Clickhouse...

Does look cool and more freedom-orientated.

We also have this that I know many people would like to see:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2756/posthog-is-developer-friendly-open-source-product-analytics

marcusquinn

@LoudLemur From what I've seen, I think NodeBB, Discourse, and Flarum are all brilliant for their own reasons — so we live in amazing times to have all these options.

I think it always comes down to what features are important to the Admins.

Thankfully NodeBB is still super simple, and created a thriving Cloudron community there.

Flarum I think is also amazing, very aesthetically pleasing, and I'll always have a soft-spot for php-based apps.

TBH, if I were choosing for my own use, I think it would be difficult to beat Discourse for features and maturity, but Flarum certainly has a few things the other's don't, especially some of the nice looking plugins for things like Subscriptions and Private forum areas, which I haven't seen in NodeBB.

marcusquinn

@humptydumpty Perhaps. I don't know that anyone would want to go through migrating the Cloudron forum, as it works well enough, but I can see for new setups Flarum looks like a mature and considered platform, and likely will attract more Cloudron subscribers for having it.