basecamp/once-campfire-rust — what it is and what it’s for

About the project

A port of the ONCE Campfire chat app from Rails to Rust: a single binary that reuses the Rails app's existing SQLite database and storage while being much faster and lighter on memory.

Useful for

Replace a Rails Campfire deployment with a single binary without migrating data
Run a self-hosted chat reusing the existing SQLite database and attachments
Benchmark the Rust port against the Rails app on identical seed data

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

6 stars so far today, about 12 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 4 days old and already has 93 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #173.
Recent forks include notable developers: @seuros (636 followers), @emoon (528 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 93
Today: 6 · ≈ 12 by evening
Forks: 11
Issues and pull requests: 42
Watchers: 1
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.2 · September 29, 2026
Created: September 26, 2026
Last push: September 30, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 30, 2026Top new repositories this week: #173

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