Survey: Who is self-hosting Circular?

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Survey: Who is self-hosting Circular?

julien-c opened this issue 11 years ago · 15 comments

Hello all,

I'm currently considering a backend rewrite for Circular, switching from PHP and maybe using a different DB engine.

Who is currently self-hosting Circular, so that I can assess how much of an impact that would represent on the community?

Best,

Julien

Answer 1 · 2014-02-19T11:15:45.000Z

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Time could be spent better, e.g., on implementing features and fixing bugs.

I am going to try self-host version of Circular today. However to use it fully, I will probably have to implement persistent user sessions and fix twitter auth bug (currently it wants to autorize Circular app on every login).

Answer 2 · 2014-02-19T11:19:24.000Z

Hi @lauris,

Thanks for your input. Circular is a side project for me so it's also a way to learn new technologies and be a technological testbed of sort.

What's the issue with user sessions? They should be persistent.

Answer 3 · 2014-02-19T11:26:17.000Z

Well in that case, you should definitely do that. I was already using Circular.io and the app is pretty nice :)

Just checked the issue with sessions, seems that they are persistent indeed, but somehow I got the impression that they are not. Proably because I got logged out a lot.

Answer 4 · 2014-03-30T12:21:24.000Z

Hi @julien-c ,

Just came across this while looking into buffer alternatives. Have you thought of switching from php to node.js . I would stick with MongoDB

Answer 5 · 2014-03-31T08:28:17.000Z

@andykenward Yes, either Node or Go :)

Answer 6 · 2014-04-25T22:45:53.000Z

Are you still considering doing a rewrite?

Answer 7 · 2014-11-11T17:43:54.000Z

I vote for Go ;) and some modularity in social accounts (g+, fb, twitter etc.)

Answer 8 · 2015-03-11T17:47:29.000Z

I will put some work into an API rewrite in the coming days. Still undecided between Node and Go. Anyone interested in helping out?

Answer 9 · 2015-03-24T00:04:57.000Z

I vote for node!

Answer 10 · 2015-04-01T04:55:26.000Z

I'd like to help if you decide to make it in go.

Answer 11 · 2015-04-08T19:59:28.000Z

Guys – I actually have a branch sitting on my work computer with a few days' worth of work into rewriting Circular in Node. I need to get my shit together and actually push the branch now :)

If anyone wants to help: I'm using http://passportjs.org/ for social authentication, mongojs as my Mongo wrapper, and node-twitter.

Pretty swamped by work right now, but I'll try and put some work into finishing this at the end of the month (25/26).

Commenting here will help me keep it up, cheers!

Answer 12 · 2015-04-08T23:13:15.000Z

I'm disappointed by your choice, but thanks for all the work you've done so far.

Answer 13 · 2015-07-13T21:29:43.000Z

Hi Julien, are you currently still working on Circular? I've been busy building a docker image from the current source and would love to help.

Answer 14 · 2015-11-01T07:59:48.000Z

@danielpalstra is it possible to share your docker image?

Answer 15 · 2015-11-04T20:29:43.000Z

Hi @patbaumgartner I would love to share it, but unfortunately I don't have it anymore since I stopped using circular. I was using the composer https://hub.docker.com/r/composer/composer/ docker image in combination with the standard Mongo image.