Anyone here have experience self-hosting Stoat?

After a few evenings banging my head against the keyboard I finally have Revolt and Livekit self-hosted!

It’s largely all working through the official stoat-for-web that I’m hosting, but something really simple is preventing me inviting my friends along to try it…

I’ve set the backend to invite-only and added an invite code to the database… But I can’t for the life of me figure out how the devs intend for invites to actually work beyond the backend?

  • It doesn’t seem to be a feature of stoat-for-web at all.
  • The app doesn’t support any alternative servers as far as I can tell

Any good workarounds, besides opening up the floodgates…?

  • FBJimmy@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I think I’ve figured it out somewhat.

    Handling instance invite codes is definitely missing from the official stoatchat-for-web repo I built my frontend from - see: https://github.com/stoatchat/for-web/issues/639

    But I think what confuses things when you ask around for help is that AFAIK a lot of people are using various forks and pre-made docker images that patch things like this.