churr
Team chat your group runs for itself.
Channels, threads, search, bots and calls, from one program on a machine you control. No passwords. No email addresses. Nobody reading along that you can't name.
not out yet
It is yours
One program and one folder. Nobody can raise the price, change the terms, read along or switch it off. Back up the folder and you have backed up the community.
It keeps to itself
A Churr server talks to nothing outside itself unless you turn that on. Every outside connection is one switch on one page, and most start off.
It says who can read what
Self-hosted does not mean private from the person hosting. Churr says so on its first page, and seals the chats that need to be between two people only.
Chat that does the small jobs too
Threads that stay out of the way, and can be moved into a channel of their own when they outgrow one. Polls, checklists anyone can tick, reminders, scheduled messages and saved replies are part of a message, not an add-on to install.
Messages are written in a small, safe Markdown. Nothing in one can run a script or load a picture from somebody else's server.
Find it again
Search covers every channel and chat you can read, replies included, and nothing you can't. Narrow it by conversation, person, date or whether there was a file.
Sealed chats are never searched by the server, because the server cannot read them.
One person can run it
People, invites, groups, channels, moderation, bots, company sign-in and themes all live in one admin console. There is no configuration file to keep in step with it.
Start it with a host name and a folder. Back it up with one command while it runs.
Dark, light, or your own
Flat colour, hard edges and one corner cut. A dark theme, a light one, and a high-distinction palette that stays readable with red-green colour blindness.
Make a theme of your own and share it as a link. Churr measures the contrast of every pairing and refuses a theme people could not read.
Whoever runs a Churr server can read everything on it, private channels included.
The exception is a sealed chat, which is always between exactly two people. That is why Churr is built for a group to run for itself: the person who can read your chat should be someone you can name.
Not out yet. Nearly a thing.
There is nothing to download today. The status page says exactly what is built, what is being built and what has never been tried, and it is updated as that changes.