A revolutionary way to communicate with your friends over the internet! Completely open-source and available for anyone to use or even to host themselves. Supports desktop, mobile, potatoes and more – start talking today!
This is an instant messaging web-application that I've made as part of my Computer-Science A-Level Project.
Using Flossy is extremely simple! Just head over to https://flossy.me and either register an account or login! You will need a friend or another account to actually send messages, however, as you won't be able to message anyone without them adding you back as a contact. See passwords.txt for some dummy testing accounts.
With the recent scandals concerning Facebook's breach of user's privacy, I realised that there isn't really a instant messaging service that is reliable, secure and most importantly, open-source. How can you feel safe that your messages are secure and private unless you can look at the code yourself? Heck. I think you should even be able to host the service yourself, if you really want to. It's open-source! Go for it!
Anyways. Facebook own the majority market share for mobile instant messaging (WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger), and all of the alternatives I have looked at don't have great mobile-desktop cross-platform compatibility, aren't open-source and/or don't allow you to host the service for yourself.
I want to make something that you can understand. Change. Fork. Understand & Improve.
Flossy is an instant messaging application that uses a modified traditional LEMP web development stack. Instead of the standard MySQL or PHP, however, Flossy uses SQLite and Python instead. (Linux, Engine-x/NGINX, SQLite, Python)
This project uses Django, a free and open-source web framework that is written in Python. One of the goals of my project is to use completely open-source and free technology, and to follow the same practices itself.
Flossy allows you to create an account, add contacts by username, message those contacts and recieve messages in return while following all the latest & recommended security practices for password handling and encrypting data.
Python/Django + Bootstrap & FontAwesome + SQLite + NGINX + Linux (Ubuntu Web Server)
Unfortunately, this project isn't accepting any contributions or pull requests until after my project is graded and marked.
You're more than free to submit issues, though! If you have any bugs, suggestions for improvement or even just questions, feel free to submit an issue and I'll have a look at it as soon as possible.