Probably should be re-classified Links, as Announcements is more for releases or major site news.
The original announcement, linked from OP: Announcement: Mensam - Felix Springer's Blog
It’d be cool to see some reflection on what worked/didn’t work in terms of idioms/techniques, or where you were able to take the project (did other people self-host it? Were you able to get people to pay you to use it? Was it designed for internal use only and stayed that way?).
I was already planning to do that at some point.
Some topics I want to cover:
- Using the selda library as an SQLite interface
- Using Nix as a bundler (frontend, backend, fonts, static images, configuration wrapper)
- Using Nix inside of devcontainers
- The state of timezone libraries across the Haskell and Elm ecosystems
And I guess I should write up a tutorial how to self-host Mensam using the Docker image.
By the way it is designed for public use. The public instance is fully usable. Spaces are private by default and can be configured to require a password to join (just using the regular web client).