/alovoa

Free and open-source dating platform that respects your privacy

Primary LanguageJavaGNU Affero General Public License v3.0AGPL-3.0

Alovoa

Alovoa aims to be the first widespread free and open-source dating web platform.

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What makes Alovoa different from other platforms?

  • No ads
  • No selling of your data
  • No paid features (no "pay super-likes", "pay to swipe", "pay to view profile" or "pay to start a chat")
  • No unsecure servers
  • No closed-source libraries
  • No seeing people you don't want to see with advanced filters
  • Your most private data is securely encrypted

Mobile apps

Alovoa is also available as a mobile app. Check out Android app source code repo, download an app on F-Droid or Google Play

Contribute

  • Tell your friends about it and share on social media! This is the best way to make it grow.
  • Improve the project by posting in Issues and make a PR upon Issue discussion.
  • Chat/support to the development community on Matrix
  • Translate this project into your preferred language on Weblate
Translation status

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Donate

Like this project? Consider making a donation.

Platform Link
Alovoa alovoa.com/donate-list
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Liberapay liberapay.com/alovoa/donate
Open Collective opencollective.com/alovoa
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How to build

  • Install a JDK >= 9 (OpenJDK 11 is officially supported)
  • Install maven: https://maven.apache.org/install.html
  • Setup a database (MariaDB is officially supported)
  • Setup an email server or use an existing one (any provider with IMAP support should work)
  • Enter credentials for database server, email server and encryption keys in application.properties
  • Execute "mvn install" in the folder where the pom.xml resides

Or you can use Docker and Docker compose. To bring up the server, after setting the required values in src/main/resources/application.properties you can just run below commands:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose logs -f

Debugging

  • Spring Tool Suite is recommended for debugging
  • Find the lombok.jar (should be in the ~/.m2) and execute it with "java -jar"

Documentation:

Licenses:

  • All code is licensed under the AGPLv3 license, unless stated otherwise.
  • All images are proprietary, unless stated otherwise.
  • Third-party web libraries can be found under resources/css/lib and resources/js/lib and have their own license.
  • Third-party Java libraries can be found in the pom.xml and have their own license.