pv 🤙 Get your local version of Iris with Docker Desktop 🤙 Uploading images 💫

If you want to run a local version of Iris you can do it with minimal (or zero with some instructions) technical knowledge.

1) Install https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ and check the https://docs.docker.com/get-started/ guide

2) Run "git clone https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger.git"

3) go to iris-messenger directory and run "docker-compose up"

Now, you have a local version of Iris that you can access from your preferred browser at http://localhost:8080/ and control the installation from the Docker Desktop.

See https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger and https://github.com/irislib/faq for how-to details, features and troubleshooting.

🤙 Iris FAQ has been updated and uploading images & pasting image URLs 💫

You can see gif animations of many features. You can copy the gif image-url and paste it on a note if you want to help someone out or refer to some features.

For example, https://github.com/irislib/faq#media-links

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PS. nostr.build seems to be down at the moment. https://nostrimg.com is another image hosting service where you can upload your images and then paste the url on your note for posting.