dtonon/squalk

A forum + chat built on Nostr to manage your community

Productivity & self-hostedSvelte#forum#nostr#nostr-client#nostr-protocol

1.7 Quiet Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 22, 2026, 08:48 UTC.

Open on Seismograph Open on GitHub

About the project

A forum and chat built on Nostr for managing communities: runs in single-forum or multi-room mode, implementing NIP-29 and NIP-7D. Requires a personal NIP-29 relay and a Blossom server for uploads.

Useful for

Deploy a community forum on your own NIP-29 relay with a sidebar chat
Customize forum content via NIP-23 markdown events (about, guidelines, homepage)
Enable SSR mode for search-engine-crawlable forum pages

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

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
Hacker News: “Squalk: A forum and chat built on Nostr” — 30 points, 17 h ago.

Stars per day

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

Numbers

Total stars: 14
Today: 0 · ≈ 2 by evening
Forks: 1
Issues and pull requests: 10
Watchers: 1
Language: Svelte
Created: May 11, 2026
Last push: September 21, 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.

Hacker News discussions

Squalk: A forum and chat built on Nostr30 points, September 21, 2026

Spotted in

September 22, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
September 21, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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