FeatherChat / News: Recent posts

Our official homepage is up! http://featherchat.n4rf.net

Please see our new project page at http://code.google.com/p/featherchat

This page may still be updated but is no longer our project homepage.

We appreciate all of the wonderful and free things SourceForge provides, however such a small and simple application does not have a need for the vast amount of features that SourceForge offers.

Work has begun on 0.2! Please submit any bugs to the Google bug tracker.

FeatherChat is a low-data web-based chat program targeted to mobile phone users. Users need a phone with data and a browser. To host, it requires a web-server with PHP and has access to a MySQL db. PHP's PEAR mail is required for e-mail notification.

FeatherChat's first public release is now available! See our download page for version 0.1. FeatherChat 0.1 features:
A low-data web-based chat system
Multi-user support
E-mail notification... read more

FeatherChat 0.1 beta nears completion. It's currently undergoing internal testing. This version is actually up on subversion for anyone who is dying to get their hands on it. Be warned, there's absolutely no documentation and install script, so at this point you'd have something pretty much completely useless ;)

I'll post again when something useful comes up.

Welcome to the FeatherChat project page.

Currently there are no files and no official web-page. I am awaiting DSL to be installed at home so that I can work on the project in my free time.

What is FeatherChat?
It's a chat system for mobile phone users who are conscious of their data usage, or need a centralized chat interface (as opposed to text/SMS which relies on the specific phones). It will always remain low-data-usage.
The code-base is nearly complete with the exception of administration tools which are completely unwritten. This should only take a few weeks of steady coding. No promises on a timetable ;)... read more