# dtonon/squalk

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.8 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 14 total · +1 star today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Svelte · Created: 2026-05-11 · Last push: 2026-09-21
- GitHub: https://github.com/dtonon/squalk · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dtonon/squalk

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Squalk: A forum and chat built on Nostr” — 30 points, 18 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 10
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-24 … 2026-09-22: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 4, 1

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

09-21 1.6, 09-22 1.9

## Hacker News

- Squalk: A forum and chat built on Nostr — 30 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788052

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
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Data as of 2026-09-22 09:34 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.