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   Grey Area (greyarea@mitra.vpclmulqdq.moe)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 07:27:33 JST Grey Area

   Seeing as the original Shadowchat author and repository vanished into the ether, and none of the forks are getting active development, I have decided to start maintaining the project.

   Main changes from the surviving forks (LukeSmithxyz, Shadowchatjp):

   - Internals rewritten to not "read/write from CSV files from the httpd handler routines, without locking, as a means for persistence and IPC".
   - Config file format changed from JSON to YAML.
   - Structured and leveled logging.
   - Localization is now a first-class feature.
   - Static assets and the dynamic asset templates are now embedded in the executable at compile time.
   - The OBS widget (/alert) should function better now.
   - The history view widget (/view) now has optional auto-refresh.
   - HTTP basic auth is no longer used (alert and view now both use the authkey).
   - Optional support for including a logo in main "make a shadowchat" page.
   - Optional support for an integrated captcha.
   - Japanese localization included by default.
   - Minor UI cleanups.

   Warnings:

   - This was only lightly tested with the XMR stagenet.
   - Upgrading will lose all historical chats, because fuck writing an importer.
   - I am not a web developer.

   https://gitgud.io/greyarea/shadowchat

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 07:27:32 JST silverpill

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     @greyarea Could Shadowchat be used with PeerTube?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 03:42:53 JST silverpill

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     • チャノさん

     @japananon @greyarea There is a discussion in PeerTube issue tracker about censorship-resistant monetization tools and I recommended Shadowchat: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1586#issuecomment-3391776466

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     チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 03:42:54 JST チャノさん

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     • silverpill

     @greyarea @silverpill Direct integration with PeerTube via plugin is a dream, but I'm not capable of making it.

     I use a browser source in OBS to display the dono history, and for the donate popup.

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     Grey Area (greyarea@mitra.vpclmulqdq.moe)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 03:42:55 JST Grey Area

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     • silverpill
     • チャノさん

     @silverpill

     It's platform agnostic since it's "just" a browser window. I should better separate the front/backend so someone can write something nicer, but I have been busy with other commitments lately.

     @japananon uses it with peertube