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kirbydogs
2 months ago
is this possible with VLC Media Player? I've been meaning to print out each and every single frame of a video so that I could turn it into a series of flipbooks, with an MP3 player for the sound
icandoanything
2 months ago
i dont use this nor care i just liek da idea of this but i want to say good luck to you, this does not look easy.
kuroi
2 months ago
this is great news!!! Thank you so much for all the work you do for Chattable, it's a huge part of making the indie web more connected and with fun chat features :D
pickled-asparagus
2 months ago
oh my goddd this is awesome! I really appreciate your perseverance on this project, chattable reigns supreme once more as the premier chatbox ^_^
chattable
2 months ago
I just identified an issue where Chattable beta & production versions were racing to overwrite chat messages, the loser would lose their messages. I've since cloned the database and use a separate db for beta now, chat history & ownership now varies between the two versions.
chattable
2 months ago
Now is a good time to change all your beta.iframe.chat links BACK to iframe.chat links, using BOTH can get confusing for you and me when troubleshooting
kiwimeowo
2 months ago
Ahh thats why some messages went missing. Anyways, congrats in the migration!!!
chattable
2 months ago
if you had messages go missing you may be able to recover them by switching from beta.iframe.chat links to iframe.chat links in your iframes
seolhae
2 months ago
hallu chattable! i have managed to create an account via the beta mirror site but i am unable to create a chat with my chat id :(
chattable
2 months ago
I believe I have fixed this, try visiting the chattable dashboard again and creating your chat if it doesn't exist yet. A few things to note though: 1. Chat IDs are like usernames, if one is taken already, you won't be able to use it to create your own. 2. The dashboard doesn't work in real time, most changes will require you to reload the page to see your changes, this will remain true while the project is in beta
chattable
2 months ago
I've started rewriting Chattable 3 days ago. Changes will only affect beta.iframe.chat links until the full rerelease of Chattable
chattable
2 months ago
As of April 8, 2026 on Beta, messages and chat room settings are officially stored locally on Chattable's servers. Removing the biggest Firebase dependency in this project. You can read the entire chat history of these chats (up to the last 200 messages) and send & receive new messages. You can also delete & edit existing messages per your permissions in each room.
chattable
2 months ago
Most of the dashboard and other chat functions do not work yet, including the emoji table, promoting users, demoting users, kicking users, banning users, creating chats, deleting chats, creating accounts, deleting accounts, adding emojis, removing emojis, adding profanity filters, removing profanity filters, clearing chats, executing commands, and many other features not listed.
chattable
2 months ago
I will prioritize certain features as I go through and rewrite each existing feature, but we're at a point that beta allows you to consistently read & send messages at no cost to me, 100% reliably.
chattable
2 months ago
The current features have also just been fixed on Beta, hide/show messages, kick, ban, and reply
uraincandy
2 months ago
the good ending. glad youre moving away from firebase, good luck on your journey! :-3
chattable
2 months ago
create chat, delete chat, add emojis, delete emojis, lock chat, unlock chat, and clear chat are now working again
chattable
2 months ago
Still using Firebase for Auth at the moment, sometimes chats won't load due to login rate limits. Will be fixed once Firebase is fully removed.
chattable
2 months ago
replies are working again, whispers are working but don't render in real time (yet) meaning whispered messages sent after page load won't render until the next page load.
seolhae
2 months ago
omg yes please! i wanted to add chattable on my website so bad but i just recently found out that you we're down due to attacks, i hope those bad people get karma :(
chattable
2 months ago
Sign up page has been resurrected on beta.iframe.chat so new users can sign up & start creating chats again
chattable
2 months ago
by toy i mean rewrite and i'm maybe 15% finished, haven't even gotten to the rendering part yet so nothing loads
chattable
2 months ago
it's not one shotted, BUT beta is now 90% self hosted, you can send & receive messages now. No double messages or broken renders, and no disappearing messages (messages getting eaten)
chattable
2 months ago
You can't interact with messages yet (delete, edit, promote, kick, ban, etc) or access the emoji tray or settings tab YET but I'll work on that soon. ALL of these changes are for beta.iframe.chat links only (not iframe.chat links)
chattable
4 months ago
If you are still using Chattable at this time, expect chats to not render on some page loads (because of connection queues) and double rendering of all messages (known issue on my end, happens during high traffic)
kuroi
4 months ago
Was the limit for february reached or for march already? I thought it was already at the limit when the chat was down for a few days this month. The traffic has been really high for sure
chattable
4 months ago
Kuroi, brother, I don't even know. The limit for March hasn't been reached because the limit is supposed to be a full-stop when met. Like, when I reach this monthly limit it's supposed to full stop until it resets... but it didn't. Next month my limits will reset, they'll be the same limits but with a new balance at 0 bytes of data downloaded. Firebase rules seem to just be ignored for my project, however,
chattable
4 months ago
The concurrent active user limit seems to be harshly enforced. 100 users at any given time. If 100 users are online (including anons across all chats), other users will see a chat that is blank (no messages) when loading the page. It seems to be the only limit being enforced and there is absolutely 0 people online who have reported similar behavior.
chattable
4 months ago
According to Firebase: I'm allowed 360mb of download per day. I'm at 100+ GB of download for this month. It's been 25 days. Do the math, and you'll notice something is wrong. I have no idea how or why Chattable is able to send or receive messages still, this month has a recorded 224,000 monthly active user which is an all time high.
win1999
4 months ago
I can't begin to imagine what it's like to host so many users, but have you thought about moving to a dedicated server (i use railway). A simple Node.js server with socket.io might suffice, for little money. You could also optimize your queries and think about implementing throttling, if you are still have griefers? Apologies if this all sounds obvious or unreasonable, just wanting to help :)
nova-the-proot
5 months ago
We finally found the 'dystopian future' shown in sci-fi stuff and games. Theres a good reason it was originally fiction.
chattable
5 months ago
To combat this, anon account creations are also disabled. What this means for you: New visitors to your site won't be able to read your chat though they can still send messages due to the server processing that and not the client.
chattable
5 months ago
By February 1st, all services will be restored except email sign up & chat creation. The project will remain on the free plan and will remain subject to daily limits as mentioned in the article below https://iframe.chat/updates/article/shutdown-info.html
chattable
5 months ago
I am also aware of being unable to login from your chat, I may work on this later. If you're tech savvy enough, you can copy your Firebase login/account cookie from the dashboard to your website (or your chat) then you won't need to sign in.
finalfantasyix
5 months ago
thanks so much for all the work you've put into maintaining chattable for so long. very sad to see it go :(
tommypanzram
5 months ago
Totally fair and understandable update. Hate that it got to this point but you have a solid project that is really well made. Not for nothing, but have you ever considered making the back end a docker container for users to have the option for self-hosting? Might sound like overkill but I'm having a hard time finding an alternative. The simplicity of yours isn't really matched and that's what I like most about it.
ne0nbandit
5 months ago
Thank you for the update :( I'm sorry stuff has been so rough to maintain.. You mentioned downgrading to the free plan database and I'm wondering if maybe there could be a way the admin could host their own database? At least to aleviate some of that burden
ne0nbandit
5 months ago
I perfectly understand if this would require a lot of code rewriting and whatnot though!
sugarfantasies
5 months ago
such a shame seeing this go, hope it gets better. Is there a way to donate? Because I know if i could i would
kirbydogs
5 months ago
Please open the donations back up. I wish to help you out, even if it isn't with Chattable.
sanji
5 months ago
thank you for all your hard work :( i'm sorry things have had to turn out this way
chattable
5 months ago
@tommypanzram unfortunately dockerization isn't a viable alternative. While it would work to clone most of Chattable you'd still need to setup a Firebase account with specific configurations across auth & rtdb, and then you'd need to edit front & backend code to point everything to the new database. Which isn't something I plan to provide support on
lilithdev
5 months ago
I am really glad to see that Chattable will continue! Downgrading to a free tier plan is kinda genius.
abberation
5 months ago
Oh my god, this makes me so sad :( Chattable was such an amazing service and it's so sad to see that some people just want to ruin everything for no reason.
chattable
5 months ago
We are approaching some hard monthly limits. The first 3 days of January consumed 85% of the monthly hard limit for resources. Chattable will have to stretch the remaining 15% of resources for the rest of the month to remain online
chattable
5 months ago
To alleviate this, new accounts are disabled. This means no person can sign up and new anonymous users can't read chats. This will be reverted next month.
datoxicwaltz
5 months ago
your project was the best free chat to use i really hope this doesnt mean the end...
pearliasystem
5 months ago
Thank you for the incredible work you've done on this project over the years. It's a shame that bad actors have ruined such a great resource. We will support you in your future endeavors either way!
tommypanzram
6 months ago
Cloudflare an option you're open to? I know their free plan has ddos protection.
win1999
6 months ago
Have you reached out to Google/Firebase on the matter? Can't you ban their IP/email?
chattable
6 months ago
I have reached out to Firebase, the attacker has been jumping VPNs since their home IP was leaked. Firebase won't do anything, Firebase also can't be looped through cloudfare, the server is fine but the database is hosted by Firebase which offers no spam protection
chattable
6 months ago
The only real option is to prevent the public from reading chat data directly from the database and loop all read requests through my server. I did this with writes when I switched to a backend. So expect a similar amount of downtime since then
win1999
6 months ago
Hmmm. You could 1) Firebase App Check. A good way to block scripts/bots regardless of their VPN 2) Backend Proxy. Moving reads to your backend, and then you could use Cloudfare Free Bot Shield 3) UID Ban in Rules. Hardcode a "deny" in your security rules? Firebase wont charge for requests blocked by rules.
kiwimeowo
6 months ago
I thought I messed up my code, but it's apparently broken on all of chattable? I hope this issue will be resolved soon, good luck!
kuroi
6 months ago
Can someone please explain to me why, WHY is someone attacking a free chat tool FOR WEEKS? Hope you can sort this out soon :/
chattable
6 months ago
The following steps will be to migrate from Firebase and fully host the database on my server. Bear with me, as it will be a lengthy process leaving Firebase. If you need any data (chat data or account data) from our database (or want it removed) email us
everythingkris
6 months ago
Why the flip would somebody attack a free service like this? Sorry you have to go through this Andrew.
lindley
6 months ago
so sorry this is happening!! hope you can figure it out soon, big chattable fan over here :)
chattable
6 months ago
To put into perspective, with tens of thousands of users costs usually float around $0.03/day or $0.40/month for the database alone. I also have to maintain server costs, domain costs, private email costs, and more
chattable
6 months ago
Without the attacks, all costs considered rounds up to about $810/yr ($65/mo for my server, $15 for yearly domain registration, $15 for email, and $10 maybe for database costs) however, with attacks inflating costs for Firebase due to excessive logins & reads, that adds $75/mo which adds another $900 annually. Not something I'd ask the public to fund. It's best to solve the problem than succumb and pay.
chattable
6 months ago
That's only to mention $75 at the current rate of attacks, if an attacker had more machines they could exponentially inflate these numbers even more
phelah
5 months ago
Oh hey wait, are you sure you should've put their Ip and email publicly here? Not trying to accuse you of anything I'm just curious if putting this information could lead to people finding them. It doesn't make sense why somebody would attack a free service like this, I'm genuinly curious why.
tommypanzram
5 months ago
Holy crap, dude please set up a patreon or other monthly contribution page. A reward could be as simple as access to a community discord. I admire you for providing a free service, but you don't have to take on that financial burdon to provide it. I know you have a ko-fi link on your page but a $1 per month subscription seems like it could be more reliable than a one-time $10 donation.
pastel-skies
5 months ago
Shiiii I thought Chattable was just broken, knowing a bad apple has been DDosing Chattable is just vile... hoping you can find a way to fix this mess, even if it means donating to help!
doggyhell
5 months ago
sorry to hear youve been dealing with hell for no reason besides someone deciding to be malicious. we appreciate your free service dev!
chattable
5 months ago
ETA: I have no timeline for this. With a change of work hours last year and a lack of motivation on my days off, paired with the amount of time & effort required to rewrite as much as I need to (to patch the abusable exploit) I just can not faithfully provide an ETA. It could be days, or months.
chattable
6 months ago
I want to emphasize my commitment to user privacy and will not explicitly allow mods or owners to peek at other people's private conversations.
bevweb
6 months ago
this is so real thoughhh i can never focus on one project for more than like a week at a time
chattable
6 months ago
Truth be told, I was diagnosed as a kid but as I grow older I think most ADHD symptoms are symptoms of just being human and that the diagnosis itself was invented to sell pharmaceuticals.
chattable
7 months ago
And also thanks to hhroses, Bisha, Tapeykatt, wayrift, sanji, colorworld, bruisedgh0st, jlehr, possiblymatt, voidpain, xsolimini, thegportal, ughbees, isnt real (definitely is), myrrh, burgeritchi. melody-nomas, lemontchi, win1999, strawbebby228, slaid, featherfae, duckdev, sewerwolfx, ecka, lunamilk, 404city, nactivagant, obspogon, j0ner, chimerathing,
chattable
7 months ago
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chattable
7 months ago
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chattable
7 months ago
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chattable
7 months ago
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chattable
7 months ago
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chattable
7 months ago
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blankbarrel
7 months ago
This's been one of the best tools avilable for static sites dude, thank you for hosting it. also MERRY CHRISTMAS LOLE!!!
kirbydogs
7 months ago
Hello, Human Here! Instert Inspiring Quote. As Always, A Jolly Good Thank You From A Real Human From Groogle. (Sent with GenAIBot) Jokes aside, wow! You are amazing! Have a happy Thanksgiving/X-Mas/New Year!
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