Looks like you called it. Seems the container image(s) default to a subscription plan (“Starter”, free for <50 users) but apparently you can revert to the “Community Edition” which gets rid of it.

Found this post over at the place we no longer speak of :

Hello, I’m Gabriel Engel, the founder of Rocket.Chat. I want to clarify that there is no new limitation for community use. We’ve recently introduced a plan offering all enterprise features for free to groups with fewer than 25 users. For those with more users, you have the opportunity to try the enterprise features. After the trial period, the system will automatically revert to the community version. However, you have the option to bypass the trial in the admin settings. I emphasize that we are not imposing any restrictions; instead, we’re providing the enterprise version free to small teams and inviting larger teams to experience it. Let’s view this as the positive initiative it is. For more details, please visit our forum: https://forums.rocket.chat/t/introducing-the-starter-plan-free-access-to-premium-features-for-limited-scale-use/18736

In the admin settings for your instance you can go to the “Subscription” panel and down at the veeeery bottom is a “Cancel Subscription” button (I’m on the free “starter” subscription, apparently). I’m assuming that’s how you back out of it.

Once I have a chance to warn users that I’m about to do something potentially dramatic, I’ll test it out and see what happens.

EDIT: Also found this in the RC forums (from 2 years ago) :

Note, if you upgrade or install new version of RC, it will automatically put you at a Starter or Pro plan, to go to the community, go to Admin settings, remove the key and it will put you back to the Community version… It took me a while to figure this out :slight_smile:

O, and the immediate next post is what I described above :

I believe community is still available within v6.6.0, but new instllation will put you automatically to the Starter Plan. You need to cancel subscription going to Setting → Subscription → Cancel Subscription

RocketChat is pretty easy to setup with docker. I couldn’t get it to work in podman after many, many hours of trying despite the documentation saying it does. They have a dedicated podman doc page but I just hit problem after problem after problem. I was trying to do it with the containerized mongo as a PoC though - a lot of problems came from that (mongo connection). Maybe I’ll try again with a “real” db server. Root cause seemed to be networking differences between docker and podman.

I found it really odd that your server has to get a registration key from their server… That part weirds me out.

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There are times when things need to be broken. But I also definitely understand your angle.

I appreciates that but unfortunately it is under a different identity and I don’t want to cross the two.

This sounds like exactly my research arc over the last few months. I went with rocket because the 50 user limit is probably fine… Doesnt work with podman regardless of the docs.

Curious to see where you land

Did Mira used to be Avon?

I switched.

Hey bud - for the most part it worked great following the guide. The static IP was very important because dropbear is active before DNS (at least in my config) so you have to configure it in a way that you can definitively find it - and a static IP was the way. I just gave it an easy to remember one at 10.0.0.3 since I already have important things at *.1 and *.2.

Another thing that tripped me up originally is that you need to SSH as the root user. That doesn’t seem to be your problem since you’re not getting there over the network, but FYI for when you fix it.

Destination Host Unreachable

That’s definitely a network problem. Maybe fire it up and then check your router for active IP leases and see which one it took?

I’m attempting all of this over wifi, in case that matters

It probably shouldn’t matter in any super meaningful way, but I do have mine hardwired with cat6 so that could definitely be a difference.

Definitely let us know how it goes - you’re adding to the knowledge pool and that’s awesome.

EDIT : Make sure you can find it on the network first, then work backwards from there. At the moment, it seems like you aren’t getting network connectivity.

I started a blog specifically to make me document these things in a digestable manner. I doubt anyone will ever see it, but it’s for me. It’s a historical record of my projects and the steps and problems experienced when setting them up.

I’m using 11ty so I can just write markdown notes and publish static HTML using a very simple 11ty template. That takes all the hassle out of wrangling a website and all I have to do is markdown.

If someone stumbles across it in the slop ridden searchscape, I hope it helps them, but I know it will help me and that’s the goal.

But what about videos of DOGS farting?

I decided to give it an honest try after somebody mentioned it on lemmy a few weeks ago.

… I really like it.

I still pop open Theia if I’m just doing some research that has me hopping all around, or sometimes on a separate monitor for a referenced project/library associated with my work, but I do the actual work in Helix.

It’s being pushed very hard by management where I work and I’m consistently seeing the same as above. I mentioned on another thread recently that I’ve heard “I don’t know why Claude did that” multiple times over the past few weeks.

It’s infuriating.

Glad to see this comment on the chain. I haven’t tried it myself (yet) but I’ve got a friend that does and says it works great.

It’s on my list. Unfortunately, it’s a really long list.

My problem with this, if I understand correctly, is I can usually do all of this faster without having to lead a LLM around by the nose and try to coerce it into being helpful.

That said, search engines do suck ass these days (thanks LLMs)

Without the payoff of the next generation of developers learning.

Management: “Treat it like a junior dev”

… So where are we going to get senior devs if we’re not training juniors?

Welcome to the future! … Or the past, not sure, but welcome.

I’m still running SATA spinny disks for my big-ish data. I can’t afford a 16TB SSD…

I know that’s off topic, but HDDs are still a thing too.

I don’t have a suggestion but commenting so I’ll remember to follow. I’ve just been using the CLI but if there’s a nice management system I’m interested.

Though, I’m curious if a docker one would work… I have docker aliased to podman already

I definitely know that feeling.

Now that I’m at a keyboard, here’s the (Caddy) plugin I was referring to : https://github.com/caddy-dns/namecheap