Bring the "live" experience of the big platforms to your self-hosted community — without paying for a cloud subscription. Realtime makes topics feel alive: new posts appear the instant they're written, members can see who's in the room, and a typing indicator lets conversations flow like chat. It all runs on your own server, with no third-party service in the loop.
Three features, one lightweight app
⚡ Live Topics — New replies and reactions arrive the moment they're posted. Instead of hammering refresh, members get a tasteful "3 new replies" bar that loads the latest with a tap.
👀 Real-Time Viewing — A live "…is also here" presence pill sits by the topic title, showing who else is reading this very second. It turns a quiet thread into a room.
⌨️ Real-Time Typing — When someone starts writing a reply, everyone else sees a subtle "…is typing" indicator. Fewer duplicate posts, and the natural rhythm people expect from modern chat.
Why members and admins love it
Instant, no refresh over a persistent WebSocket connection
Runs entirely on your infrastructure — no SaaS, no per-seat pricing, no data leaving your servers
Never gets in the way — if the service is down, the community keeps working; realtime just pauses
Upgrade-safe — listens to IPS content events, never edits core files
Light on resources — a tiny Node.js process handling thousands of concurrent readers
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What's New in Version 1.0.5
Released
Fixed — the on-screen text can now be translated
Everything the realtime client shows your members was written into the JavaScript in English and could not be changed: the presence pill ("Alice is also here"), the typing indicator ("Alice is typing", "Alice and Bob are typing", "Several people are typing") and the new-replies bar ("3 new replies").
On a community running in any other language, those six phrases stayed in English, and there was no setting or language string to correct them.
They are now ordinary language strings. Find them under Customization > Languages, alongside everything else the application adds:
edrt_here_one, edrt_here_many, edrt_here_overflow
edrt_typing_one, edrt_typing_two, edrt_typing_many
edrt_new_one, edrt_new_many
Each takes numbered placeholders, {1} and {2}, rather than assuming the name comes first. "{1} is typing" can become "{2} と {1} が入力中" — the names move to wherever the sentence needs them. Building these phrases by joining words together, which is what the previous versions did, cannot express that in many languages at all.
A name containing something that looks like a placeholder is treated as ordinary text, so a member cannot affect what anyone else sees.
Note for translators
Singular and plural are separate strings — edrt_typing_one and edrt_typing_two for one and two people, edrt_new_one and edrt_new_many for replies — because the count is only known in the browser, after the page has been sent. Languages with more than two plural forms will need to pick the closest fit for the general case.
Upgrading
No new settings and no configuration changes. The eight language strings are added automatically, and any translation you have already made of other strings in this application is untouched.
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