Private group chat with no registration

Question

I'm looking for recommendations for a private group chat service to plan an event. Some folks are on Skype but not Facebook. Some folks have WhatsApp but nothing else. Some folks have only email. Trying to coordinate all the communication is a challenge.Features I'm looking for:- No registration needed for group members. If one person has to register and own the chat room that would be ok.- A way to easily share the chat room. I can't think of anything more convenient than a link, but I'm open to other solutions as long as non-technical people would find it easy.- Persistent. Folks can enter and exit the same chat and see the history.- Chat room can eventually be deleted when no longer needed.- Browser based with no additional software to install.- Open source is always nice.

LinuxBender · Accepted Answer

UnrealIRCD front-ended by TheLounge web interface that has history would fit what you described, but the setup is not super quick unless one finds Ansible playbooks for both. I would imagine public Ansible scripts for this exist.
No registration would be required and TheLounge provides chat persistence. Both are open source. Visitors would not need to be technical and would not need to know IRC commands. Rooms can be deleted by the channel operator. Clients of TheLounge require only a browser and do not require any additional software. The IRC daemon scales to tens of thousands of people on a small server. Adding a web front-end reduces that number a little.
[1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://github.com/unrealircd/unrealircd/
[2] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://github.com/thelounge

justsomehnguy · Answer

> No registration needed for group members
This one is the most troublesome I think.
Usually this is in a conferencing solutions though, so no such thing as chat rooms, I think.
Otherwise I would suppose something like XMPP with a web frontend, eg https://movim.eu/
ejabberd supports anonymous users, though I can't say if movim or any else web-client supports that natively
https://www.ejabberd.im/Anonymous-users-support/index.html

gam3 · Answer

The y99.in Website seems to have what you want. You can create an open chat and share a like to it. People using the like only need to choose a unique username.
Here is a example chat I created.
https://y99.in/web/desktop/pages/807632

Private group chat with no registration

The y99.in Website seems to have what you want. You can create an open chat and share a like to it. People using the like only need to choose a unique username.Here is a example chat I created.https://y99.in/web/desktop/pages/807632

The y99.in Website seems to have what you want. You can create an open chat and share a like to it. People using the like only need to choose a unique username.
Here is a example chat I created.
https://y99.in/web/desktop/pages/807632