twelvety

I use:

• Apache with Letsencrypt client for single host reverse proxies or those with more complex needs. Not the easiest but when you understand it, it’s fine. Lightweight, solid and very flexible.
• NPM (Nginx Proxy Manager), either service or docker, where there’s a lot of proxies on one host. Very simple, very reliable, baked in authentication.
• Traefik, when building or deploying services, especially with docker swarm. Tags make it very smooth once you’ve got things set up and in your workflow.

All are good choices, but each has a specialism that make it a little bit better than the others.

(Breathes in…)

Having spent a large part of today wrestling with a selfhosted mattermost upgrade, it would be nice if they spent a bit of time focusing on making this better, like many other things do. Nothing else, at least since we dropped Atlassian selfhosted apps, has been as consistently poor at this.

Changes to supported databases (not once, but twice), forced migrations, breaking change after breaking change (especially of things that could easily be handled automatically but instead block until you’ve found the log error and researched it), and so on. Support, even for commercial customers, is very poor and sometimes extremely rude (at least one senior dev is very opinionated). And things like arbitratrily restricting how many historical messages you can read without a commercial licence shows a deep disrespect for users, plus random feature creep like adding telephony, who actually uses that?

Compare to Teamcity where you click one link in the ui and are pretty confident stuff will work afterwards, and most other selfhosted apps where major distro specific packages are provided, and add a very rapid release cycle, it’s a lot of work to maintain.

Overall, I’m not convinced that Mattermost is a well run project, foss or not. Major changes in direction smack of poor roadmapping and leadership. It would not surprise me at all if the licence issues in the post turned out to be accidental rather than deliberate.

Seriously, if you’re in the market for a chat app - whether it’s free or a thousands-seat enterprise, pick something else. Almost anything else.

Inevitable but stupid.

Yes. The term came from the Polynesian languages into English via Missionaries. The island people would war with their enemies and the winner got to eat the loser, calling them long pigs.

Yep, and very actively developed too.

Whilst I disagree with some of their technical decisions, it’s really good at what it does.

This report is sad to read, and concerning that Mattermost are not communicating back to the community.

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That’s half the internet gone, then.

UK isn’t Europe* anymore

• European Union

It’s funny though, don’t you think? None of the other European countries have been blocked, and they have the exactly same GDPR and child protection law that the ICO claims it is pursuing.

I personally think that Imgur banned the UK for simple business reasons. We don’t generate enough income for them to bother adhering to GDPR plus the OSA. As Europe presses ahead with similar censorship legislation I imagine it will ban them too, or any of those that do pursue it for GDPR breaches.

This is fragmenting the internet is of course is bad for everyone.

But… Hasn’t imgur been SFW only for a while now?

Maybe they got sent one of offcom’s shitty letters and are kneejerking to prove a point. Bit poor there’s been no statement from them before doing this.