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56 lines
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# minimum viable chat
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all my friends seem to be building chat apps as their pet projects these days. i
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find they usually do so because existing solutions are lacking in one or more
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ways; their projects often aim to improve the chat experience in areas such as:
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- interface customization
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- identity management
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- security/encryption capabilities
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- (de)centralization of identity and/or messages
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minimum viable chat does none of this. it doesn't give a fuck what you want, and
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you're probably going to find it charming enough to fuck with it for a while
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anyway. this is due to the core advantage it has over its competitors:
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- it actually exists
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[you can use minimum viable chat right now.](https://minimumviable.chat)[^1] or
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you can run your own instance somewhere else and give it to your friends and use
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it that way. or you can just laugh at this shitpost of a project and move on,
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that's fine too. but you can't deny that it it exists now.
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[^1]: at least, for now. this domain was on sale for the first year and i might
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let it expire instead of paying full price for it next year. and also you guys
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are probably freaks who are going to fill up my vps's disk with garbage
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immediately. im a shitty queer web developer not a content moderator or sysadmin
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or particularly interested in doing what you want me to do. but if neither of
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those things has happened yet you can probably use the app.
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## usage
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node shit.mjs
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listens on port 80 by default; override with the `PORT` environment variable.
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## derivative works
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this project has successfully inspired multiple friends to get off their asses
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and start on their own chat projects which are both real *and* more functional!
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- [semi-minimum viable chat](https://social.treehouse.systems/@tempest/114482211024467108), at [semi.minimumviable.chat](https://semi.minimumviable.chat)
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- [minimumest viable chat](https://void.lgbt/notice/AuCfCWFogH1DgqvCr2), at [streaming.minimumviable.chat](https://streaming.minimumviable.chat)
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if you've been similarly inspired to bring a chat app into existence, good or
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bad, as a result of this shitpost - let me know! i'll add your project to this
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list, and if you want i'll even CNAME a subdomain of minimumviable.chat to you
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if it would suit your project.
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## license
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i will assign this code's copyright to the next person who donates ten dollars
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to my ko-fi. i am writing this document while bored in the las vegas airport on
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a five hour layover and all the food here is so fucking expensive oh my god dude
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i just wanted a slice of pizza.
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