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peeto/dark-chat
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An all for all chat app in PHP. Named DarkChat because the bots will come!

0.95.3(8y ago)0359[1 issues](https://github.com/peeto/DarkChat/issues)1GPL-2.0-onlyPHPPHP >=5.4

Since Oct 3Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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DarkChat
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[](#darkchat)

An all for all chat app in PHP. Named DarkChat because the bots will come!

Web based chat application that doesn't required any registration. Old PHP 4 and 5 and 7 compatible code I maintained and as such it looked like a mess. I originally made this to talk to people and prove that with good encoding a well designed database can accept any input. It was called SiteChat but renamed it to DarkChat because Google thinks this kind of thing is evil.

The configuration should be customised, copying config\_default.php to config.php should theoretically speed the application up by a few nanoseconds.

If you have JavaScript, times should be local, tell me if otherwise. HTML only peoples the time is in GMT.

If you don't like the UI it can now be replaced in the configuration. Ignoring the concept of "instances" probably won't infer you are evil, I have no idea why anyone would want to use this feature.

I will bend over backwards to ensure this code base can work (by default) without JavaScript and look reasonable in ancient browsers.

###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~11 days

Recently: every ~29 days

Total

12

Last Release

3027d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.9PHP >=7.0

0.95PHP >=5.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f9631392c11092413edf2d7261a2cd0f8444744f28cbe7c3c745743eb5ffd15?d=identicon)[peeto](/maintainers/peeto)

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Top Contributors

[![peeto](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12824230?v=4)](https://github.com/peeto "peeto (3 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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