# GlobalChat Draw and Crystal-Gchat-Server now available

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473 "2020-08-25T19:55:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jsilver](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jsilver)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473/1 "2020-08-25T19:55:12Z")

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My app which uses a Crystal backend is now live on the Mac App Store.

Anyone can install the crystal backend on Linux with

`snap install --beta crystal-gchat-server`  
`crystal-gchat-server.change-passwords -i`  
`crystal-gchat-server`

Then you can make systemd service files to keep the server running.

Link to client app: [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/globalchat-draw/id1525630738?mt=12](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/globalchat-draw/id1525630738?mt=12)

If you don’t have a mac, we’re in the process of making a crossplatform mobile client in Dart.

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**Author:** ![jwoertink](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/jwoertink/32/50_2.png) [@jwoertink](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jwoertink)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473/2 "2020-08-26T15:57:18Z")

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That’s awesome! Is the Crystal part just an API server? Are you using any shards for that, or hand roll all of it?

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**Author:** ![jsilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jsilver](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/jsilver)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473/3 "2020-08-26T18:51:05Z")

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Thanks 🙂

Yes the Crystal part is just the server. I am using three shards, two I made: obscenity-cr (me), Linksafe.cr (me) and Sodium.cr (made by others)

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**Author:** ![j8r](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/j8r/32/111_2.png) [@j8r](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/j8r)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/globalchat-draw-and-crystal-gchat-server-now-available/2473/4 "2020-09-17T17:15:09Z")

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We can say now that your application is “Globally Available” 😄