basecamp/once-campfire
Super simple group chat, without a subscription
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
Loading star history...
Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 12 days ago, with 33 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #46 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a web-based group chat application with multiple rooms, direct messaging, file attachments, search, notifications, and bot integration API.
- Offers a simple, subscription-free chat solution that can be easily deployed with Docker for single-machine setups including SSL and persistent storage.
- Use for creating internal team communication platforms without recurring costs or complex infrastructure.
- Use for deploying private chat rooms with controlled access for small to medium-sized organizations.
- Use for integrating chat features into existing Ruby-based applications via its API and bot support.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Campfire's Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional, single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching, file serving, and SSL.
To persist storage of the database and file attachments, map a volume to
/rails/storage.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
824+63
Open issues
82+59
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 187.8K | +2.9K | 15 | — |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 47.0K | +2.3K | 16 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 98.2K | +2.3K | 64 | 14 days ago |
| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| basecamp/once-campfire | 4.8K | — | 59 | 12 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
Also by basecamp
Other repositories from this maintainer that GStars tracks
Discover Repositories
Search across tracked repositories by name or description