Or hacked, ha.

I've been setting up servers for everything ranging from IRC to Teamspeak, Exchange, and you name it. But how come setting up a Matrix server is still a science in itself?

Yes, I'm aware of the Ansible script, but should that really be the only somewhat reasonable option? When Matrix wrote " Matrix 2.0 a new chance if you gave up on us in the past".

I listened, but without a somewhat reasonable setup process for the server and the ongoing confusion in terms of clients, it hasn't gotten any easier to onboard to Matrix, unfortunately.

Self-hosting Conduit as my homeserver using SQLite as by database and Caddy as reverse proxy.

That is: 2 binaries (conduit + caddy) + 5 lines of toml config for Conduit and 2 line of config for Caddy + 1 database file. That's all you need for a basic homeserver.

just wonder what is wrong with the default rocksdb setup that came with Conduit? Wouldn't that be better for concurrencies?

I have to agree with you. Not having a proper, understandable documentation is part of what drives people away from Matrix, IMO.

And shoving the ansible script into people's faces is not a solution. I never used Ansible, and I won't start using it just because it's "easier" to setup Matrix with it, instead of setting it up by myself.

All services I self-host are quite easy to setup, Matrix so far has been a bit more difficult, but not that hard.

this is literally why i wrote https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo

i think you're asking for https://element.io/blog/experimenting-with-matrix-2-0-using-...

Browser compatibilities seem to be an issue as of right now.

Yeah it should works well on Chrome. There is still some issues on Safari.

Which LLM does it use?

Gravity Forms - https://www.gravityforms.com

Are there any self-hosted alternatives?

For IRC bouncers there's many, but I'm not aware of anything that has a web interface, phone app, push notifications and all kept in sync. The market is pretty small.

Alternatively there's many bridges these days so you can use Matrix with one of the many apps supported.

> I'm not aware of anything that has a web interface, phone app, push notifications and all kept in sync.

IRCCloud does. Or if you want an open source stack: Soju as bouncer, Gamja as web interface, and Goguma as Android app. If you have a paid Sourcehut account you get Soju+Gamja hosted for you at https://chat.sr.ht/ .

I'm not sure The Lounge and Quassel support push notifications, but they otherwise fit your requirements.

> IRCCloud does.

You replied to my post where I said I switched to IRCCloud and the person asked for self hosted alternatives to it :P

Haha, yes, my initial message didn't mention it; then I re-read it and thought "huh I forgot to mention IRCCloud" before adding it.

I haven't used it, but Quassel looks like a similar idea.

Alternatively using a Soju[1] with Goguma[2] for phone and Gamja[3] for web could work; FWIW, I use Soju, but not the other two.

1: https://sr.ht/~emersion/soju/

2: https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/

3: https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/

I'm surprised nobody mentioned TheLounge: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

Gonna follow this one, keep at it OP! the community need something like this.

So this one got attention due to some good Samaritan on Reddit who told OP to post here. Now, to the real question here: have others not received as good advice and just paid up?

First time I saw the 'I don't have fingers' prompt, it really got me giggling!