{"repo":"mierau/hotline","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/mierau/hotline","clone":"git clone https://github.com/mierau/hotline.git","description":"A modern remake of Hotline for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.","language":"Swift","stars":752,"topics":["chat","chat-app","chat-application","hotline","hotline-client"],"license":"MIT","category":"chat-messaging","readme_excerpt":"Hotline A modern remake of Hotline for macOS. Download the Latest Required: Sequoia 15.7 and up. iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS are still in the works. To keep this software fresh and running on Apple's latest platforms, the intention is to support the last two major OS releases from Apple. This gives people time to move to the latest major OS release while also allowing this project to make use of the latest APIs. --- --- What is Hotline? Hotline was released in 1997 for Mac OS. A suite of three (free) applications that allowed people to join or host online communities directly from their Macs. No subscriptions. No ads. When connected to a Hotline server you could chat with other users like IRC, message others privately like AIM, read or write threaded news like a forum, post to the server’s message board like BBS, and browse, upload, or download files like FTP. And as someone operating a Hotline server you had full control over all of it. Hotline also included Trackers. Trackers tracked servers. If you ran a Hotline server, you could list it on one or more Trackers so people could find your server—and anyone could run a Tracker. At a time when people were chatting over email and file sharing was passing physical media between friends, Hotline was a kind of revelation. The promise of the Internet, in a way. Computers owned by individuals, connected and passing information between each other. No central server that could take the entire network offline. Perhaps that’s why you can ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/mierau","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/mierau/hotline/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}