Observed arrival · 2026-09-28

Palaver: a self-hosted chat for gaming guilds

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Palaver is an in-development, open-source voice, text and screen-sharing chat that guilds can run on their own server.

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For: Gaming guilds wanting self-hosted chat
Worth noticing: Text messages are described as end-to-end encrypted; attached files are explicitly stored unencrypted on the server.

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The listed voice stack uses Opus with noise and echo suppression; screen sharing can target a screen or single window at 15–60 frames per second. Text features include Markdown, mentions, quoted replies, reactions, forwarding and direct messages. A message may carry up to ten files, each up to 25 MB, with previews; Markdown files are rendered for reading.

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