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Now that the unread fanout runs in a job, it can run after a member has already opened the room and moved on to another one. Their sidebar would then mark the room unread for a message they have seen. The job now notifies only members who still have the room unread or are in it now. Room#receive marks members who aren't in the room unread, and opening the room clears it, so a member who caught up in the meantime is skipped. When the job runs right away this is the same set of people as before, except members who have hidden the room, whose sidebar doesn't list it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JVFo3Lt9T8M5NR7KxVvsZ2
Campfire
Campfire is a web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including:
- Multiple rooms, with access controls
- Direct messages
- File attachments with previews
- Search
- Notifications (via Web Push)
- @mentions
- API, with support for bot integrations
Running your own Campfire instance
Campfire's Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional,
single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching,
file serving, and SSL. You can use our pre-built image at
ghcr.io/basecamp/once-campfire:latest, or build your own from this repo.
Deploying with ONCE
The easiest way to self-host Campfire is with ONCE. It will guide you through the initial set up and then keep your instance up to date automatically.
If you don't already have once installed, run this on the machine you want to run Campfire on:
curl https://get.once.com | sh
once will launch as soon as the install is finished.
Choose Campfire from the list of applications, follow the instructions, and ONCE will take care of the rest.
If you prefer the command line to the dashboard, you can deploy directly:
once deploy ghcr.io/basecamp/once-campfire --host chat.example.com
Deploying with Docker
If you'd rather run the Docker image yourself, you can read more about that in the self-hosting guide.
Tip
When you start Campfire for the first time, you'll be guided through a wizard to create an admin account. The email address that you enter for the admin account will be visible on the sign-in page, it's there so that people have someone to contact if they need help with their account. If that bothers you, put in any email address you want and create yourself a new admin account.
Other implementations
Campfire also has implementations in Django, Laravel, Elixir, Go and Rust:
| HTTP workload (requests/sec) | Rails | Django | Laravel | Elixir | Go | Rust |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Room page | 242 | 170 | 164 | 722 | 3,860 | 36,260 |
| Messages page | 402 | 196 | 175 | 1,053 | 5,573 | 40,872 |
| Sidebar | 541 | 615 | 715 | 1,275 | 19,753 | 34,672 |
| Search | 424 | 315 | 305 | 1,156 | 7,053 | 33,299 |
| Post a message | 225 | 154 | 137 | 801 | 4,767 | 6,896 |
Measured with 16 concurrent clients on an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, with four hardware threads allocated to each app.
Development
You are welcome - and encouraged - to modify Campfire to your liking. Please see our development guide for how to get Campfire set up for local development.
Security
See SECURITY.md for how to report a vulnerability and a description of our trust model.