{"id":49252,"date":"2025-09-11T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49252"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:08:01","slug":"campfire-now-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/11\/campfire-now-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Campfire Now Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/basecamp\/once-campfire\">Basecamp<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/lobste.rs\/s\/cwnytv\/basecamp_campfire_is_now_open_source\">Lobsters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45159742\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/selfhosted\/comments\/1n9hx4a\/campfire_the_selfhosted_group_chat_just_became\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/basecamp\/once-campfire\"><p>Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you&rsquo;d\nexpect, including:<\/p><ul><li>Multiple rooms, with access controls<\/li><li>Direct messages<\/li><li>File attachments with previews<\/li><li>Search<\/li><li>Notifications (via Web Push)<\/li><li>@mentions<\/li><li>API, with support for bot integrations<\/li><\/ul><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Campfire&rsquo;s Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional,\nsingle-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching,\nfile serving, and SSL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the Once idea didn&rsquo;t work, business-wise. Most software these days, especially running on servers, seems to be either free or a subscription.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/campfire-is-once-1\/\">Campfire Is ONCE #1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basecamp (via Lobsters, Hacker News, Reddit): Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you&rsquo;d expect, including:Multiple rooms, with access controlsDirect messagesFile attachments with previewsSearchNotifications (via Web Push)@mentionsAPI, with support for bot integrations[&#8230;]Campfire&rsquo;s Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional, single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching, file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-09-11T19:08:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"581bb5d5-cf78-442e-b892-388eecd58b9b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-09-11T19:08:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWBu11c94RC64kjiO7NWLmw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1421,333,101,2540,827,74,287,308,96],"class_list":["post-49252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-basecamp","tag-business","tag-campfire","tag-chat","tag-opensource","tag-ruby","tag-rails","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49253,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49252\/revisions\/49253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}