haccfiles/hosts/hainich/services/thelounge.nix
stuebinm 84ac81435e hainich: hacky version of thelounge as webchat
Intended for KontraIAA; requirements were that it should be a simple and
non-confusing as possible.

I tried both KiwiIRC and thelounge, and found both horrible to
package (a fact not helped by the somewhat opaque structure of
nixpkgs.nodePackages, which does contain a version of thelounge but
will apparently ignore overrides of the src attribute).

Instead, this now contains a very hacky version of thelounge, which
merely takes the already-built version from nixpkgs and glues some extra
css to it which hides potentially confusing fields.

Things hidden on the "connect" screen:
 - the "name" field (since thelounge offers "nick" "name" and "realname"
   by default, which seems too much for something embedded on a website)
 - the "I have a password" checkbox

Things hidden on the general view:
 - the button to open the side panel (the panel itself is not hidden,
   and will appear by itself on wider layouts), so that users will only
   see that one channel
 - the "channel options" menu (which includes a "leave channel" option
   which would effectively break the webchat)

Things not addressed:
 - thelounge has autocompletion for /join /leave, etc. Do we want to
   disable that as well?
 - It would probably useful to suppress all the "x joined the channel"
   messages. Thelounge supports this, but apparently doesn't support
   setting it as default?

Misc:
 - for now, users will be connected to #thelounge on libera.chat, which
   appears to be okay with being used as an experimental channel
 - I allowed prefetching link previews, but only on the server's side
   (i.e. users' browsers won't fetch content from arbitrary sites)
 - not yet tested on hainich, but should work (tested in a NixOS
   container)
 - currently assumes a "webchat.voc.hacc.space" domain (I think we had a
   voc domain? but I forgot where it is …)
2021-08-23 19:32:02 +00:00

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{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
let
# necessary since overlays won't propagate into the
# container's config
thelounge = pkgs.thelounge-hacked;
in
{
containers.thelounge = {
autoStart = true;
privateNetwork = true;
hostAddress = "192.168.100.70";
localAddress = "192.168.100.71";
config = {pkgs, config, ...}: {
services.thelounge = {
enable = true;
extraConfig = {
public = true;
# respect X-Forwarded-For
reverseProxy = true;
defaults = {
name = "libera chat";
host = "irc.eu.libera.chat";
port = 6697;
# encrypt things!
tls = true;
# yes, please do actually check the cert …
rejectUnauthorized = true;
nick = "Guest%%%%";
join = "#thelounge";
};
lockNetwork = true;
# don't log messages (default is text / sqlite)
messageStorage = [];
# darker theme
#theme = "morning";
# these three should result in having link previews
# which are fetched only by the server, then proxied
# (i.e. clients won't directly connect to arbitrary
# domains to get previews)
prefetch = true;
prefetchStorage = true;
disableMediaPreview = true;
leaveMessage = "happy haccing";
};
};
# override the package we use
systemd.services.thelounge.serviceConfig.ExecStart =
pkgs.lib.mkForce "${thelounge}/bin/thelounge start";
networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 9000 ];
};
};
services.nginx.virtualHosts."webchat.voc.hacc.space" = {
locations."/".proxyPass =
"http://${config.containers.thelounge.localAddress}:9000";
enableACME = true;
forceSSL = true;
};
}