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August 1, 2019 at 1:31pm

Greetings from Germany! I just found this community and I'm so glad I did! I'm enrolled at Lambda School at UX course!

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    August 1, 2019 at 3:47pm

    Hey everyone! I'm from Malta.. I was in the Vanila Chat and I got an invite to join the Vanila Community, so yeah it's great to be here :)

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      Hey everyone! I'm from Malta.. I was in the Vanila Chat and I got an invite to join the Vanila Community, so yeah it's great to be here :)

        welcome here Matt, how is life on Malta?

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          August 1, 2019 at 7:35pm

          Thanks.. Life is good! Hot and nice weather but I still haven't gone to the beach yet! :)

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            August 2, 2019 at 6:33pm

            Thanks.. Life is good! Hot and nice weather but I still haven't gone to the beach yet! :)

              hehe, glad to hear that. Have some fun on the beach man, while the summer is on

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                August 4, 2019 at 11:48am

                Yeah I will try :)

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                  August 8, 2019 at 12:39am

                  Greetings from Germany! I just found this community and I'm so glad I did! I'm enrolled at Lambda School at UX course!

                    Hey Hermine @hermione , how is going with that Lambda UX course ?

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                      September 16, 2019 at 3:37pm

                      Hello, any custom wordpress developers on this thread? I have a project that needs to get done and need help finishing.

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                        September 16, 2019 at 6:56pm

                        @nustream-media What is the "custom" part in it?

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                          in general terms

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                            September 16, 2019 at 8:25pm

                            in general terms

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                                September 18, 2019 at 12:18am

                                @nustream-media we do, sent you private message 📝

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                                  October 16, 2019 at 12:55pm

                                  I got few mails personally on my mail and there were few others who wanted help with self hosting. Most of them had similar trouble like us. Except we were able to do it finally.

                                  There are many places where we had problem. Specially with the deployment with nginx. You need to subscribe to a bunch of services including sendgrid, s3, imgix, datagrid, sentry and so on.

                                  Look into this file I wrote on nginx, https://github.com/vanila-io/spectrum/blob/alpha/deployment/nginx/default

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                                    I am kind of looking for a good developer to discuss this spectrum related issues and a good frontend developer to take care of some small issues.

                                    If the developer is dedicated, he might have a chance to work on our product called Automatio which we will release very soon.

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                                      I will work on the spectrum chat and deployment related issues after I am done with Automatio. So the more help I get, the more I can give in return.

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                                        October 17, 2019 at 2:15am

                                        It would be great if someone could collaborate on catching upstream commits

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                                          December 15, 2019 at 4:45pm

                                          hi guys, I am glad to be part of this community. Looks great, PWA works well. I will share my story soon on related communities. 👍✨

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                                            December 16, 2019 at 1:56pm

                                            welcome aboard my friend @vesa 👋 . I am really glad to see you joined. Waiting to see your updates on the projects you work 🤞

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                                              December 17, 2019 at 8:09pm

                                              Thanks @kinderminder i will have some updates soon

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                                                June 30, 2020 at 6:35am

                                                Is there any update on this?

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                                                  *this software

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                                                    June 30, 2020 at 1:29pm

                                                    Is there any update on this?

                                                      Hey Liam, if you mean on this chat, which use Spectrum Chat code. The the answer is yes and no. I mean, there are lot of work done after we initially self hosted, but we didn't catch up with PR's. Especially that they made drastically change to UI which we are honestly not a fans.

                                                      I am wondering why do you ask?

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                                                        June 30, 2020 at 11:51pm

                                                        Partly bc I'd love to work on this program, but also bc my team, which use Github/Gitlab quite a lot, are wanting a modern forum platform for team collaboration that integrates deeply with Git, and Spectrum/Vanila looks like a good fit for our team, but there's a few features that we want that the Spectrum aren't wanting to include and also the problem is that with Spectrum's team being owned by Github if we do decide to move away from Github (we're using Github & Gitlab atm and can't really decide between either) then Spectrum won't really be able to help

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                                                          The closest thing I could see was https://gitq.com and I'm on the development team for that, but work is becoming a bit slow on the project and due to the framework that we used the UI is a bit clunky and again only integrates with github

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                                                            July 2, 2020 at 12:45am

                                                            Partly bc I'd love to work on this program, but also bc my team, which use Github/Gitlab quite a lot, are wanting a modern forum platform for team collaboration that integrates deeply with Git, and Spectrum/Vanila looks like a good fit for our team, but there's a few features that we want that the Spectrum aren't wanting to include and also the problem is that with Spectrum's team being owned by Github if we do decide to move away from Github (we're using Github & Gitlab atm and can't really decide between either) then Spectrum won't really be able to help

                                                              Yeah, Spectrum is acquired by Github, Github by Microsoft .. I think they will shut down Spectrum Chat soon. But gonna keep this fork.

                                                              For now, we are focused on other projects like Automatio.co, so we don't have time to upgrade this Community and catch with the commits. But in future we will.

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