Off Topic, but try out the new four chan demo/theme on Beta now :O

Some messages sent today may go missing while I am working on how chats are stored/saved

:D

What happen bro where ma messages

i like apples

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

Ooh, noted! (pun unintended yet welcome :) ) Thanks!

HUGE! Really glad I don't have to switch over

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.

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

oh my goddd this is awesome! I really appreciate your perseverance on this project, chattable reigns supreme once more as the premier chatbox ^_^

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.

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

Ahh thats why some messages went missing. Anyways, congrats in the migration!!!

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

Yay! Hooray! Congrats!

YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!

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 :(

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

I've started rewriting Chattable 3 days ago. Changes will only affect beta.iframe.chat links until the full rerelease of Chattable

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.

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.

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.

The current features have also just been fixed on Beta, hide/show messages, kick, ban, and reply

Fixed the emoji table and auto scrolling to new messages

Let's gooooo!!! I'm ready for Chattable 2

Yay!!

the good ending. glad youre moving away from firebase, good luck on your journey! :-3

nice!

promoting & demoting moderators has been fixed

Most chat features are operational again, working on the dashboard now.

create chat, delete chat, add emojis, delete emojis, lock chat, unlock chat, and clear chat are now working again

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.

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.

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 :(

Sign up page has been resurrected on beta.iframe.chat so new users can sign up & start creating chats again

by toy i mean rewrite and i'm maybe 15% finished, haven't even gotten to the rendering part yet so nothing loads

currently about 50% finished, might one shot this project over night, idk

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)

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)