Stoat
Stoat is a user-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 14% of tracked projects; popularity more than 55%. How this is calculated.
Is Stoat actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 28 commits, of which 7 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 2 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, v1.1.4, is about 10 months old.
Stoat ranks #32 of 46 tracked communication - custom communication systems projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Stoat actually does
Stoat is a self-hosted chat platform designed for custom communication systems. Built using modern web technologies and implemented in Rust, it provides an alternative messaging infrastructure that you can run on your own hardware.
Best fit: It is well-suited for technical users who want to host a private chat system using modern web infrastructure under dual AGPL-3.0 and MIT licences.
Worth knowing: The codebase exhibits at-risk maintenance indicators, and as a niche alternative in a crowded field, it may lack the broader ecosystem integration of more established chat platforms.
Deployment notes
As a Rust application, it typically compiles into a single binary, but you will usually need to configure a reverse proxy for TLS termination and set up persistent storage for message data and user state.
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