Vojo — Overview

What is Vojo

A Matrix-based chat client targeting the Russian market. Fork of Cinny (MIT license), rebranded as Vojo. This repo is the client only — no server sources live here.

Value proposition: "Telegram works without VPN" — the server runs a mautrix-telegram bridge, users just open vojo.chat and chat.

Infrastructure

Domain: vojo.chat
Server: Yandex Cloud VPS, Ubuntu 24.04
Homeserver: Synapse (Matrix) + PostgreSQL + Caddy (reverse proxy)
Bridges: mautrix-telegram v0.15.3 (Python, SOCKS5 proxy for Telegram)
Client: this repo — deployed as static files via Caddy

Client source on server: ~/vojo/cinny/. Caddy serves it at https://vojo.chat (via /var/www/cinny symlink to ~/vojo/cinny).

Branding

"Vojo" everywhere in UI, page titles, meta tags.

Default homeserver

All configs must point to vojo.chat as the default and only homeserver. Hide homeserver selection from the user — end users should not need to know this is Matrix.

Build & Deploy (web)

npm ci
npm run build
scp -r dist/* vojo-superuser@111.88.146.156:~/vojo/cinny/

VSCode task Deploy to vojo.chat (Ctrl+Shift+D) automates this. Android build/deploy is covered in android.md.

Developer profile

Git identity: v.lagerev, email opnaigpt@gmail.com (referred to as Julian in legacy notes)
Background: C++ backend engineer, limited frontend experience
Communicates in Russian
Uses Claude Code agents heavily for frontend work
Reviews both English (grammar) and Russian (naturalness) translation quality
Notices lint regressions, exhaustive-deps issues, use-before-define errors
Prefers concise communication with file paths and line numbers

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