Miaou
Self-hosted multi-room chat with markdown and code blocks
Miaou is a real-time chat server geared toward developer communities, with markdown formatting, syntax-highlighted code blocks, polls, and per-room moderation. It is the software behind the public Miaou chat used by Rust developers.
Key features
- Markdown and code-block friendly chat
- Multi-room with moderation
- OAuth login support
- Popular with developer communities
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Written in JavaScript
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
Miaou replaces
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