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How come a similarly politically charged name hasn't prevented the wide adoption of Discord?
How come Riot changed it's name to Element?
Came here to say that we adopted Riot once it rebranded to Element.
Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#62Instead of yet another app/platform, why not Matrix protocol?
Especially interesting as they intend to support a matrix bridge: https://revolt.chat/roadmap#checkbox40 . It seems like it would be easier to just use Matrix "natively" and then you also have a mostly-working Discord bridge for free. Plus the likely value here is largely the client, so you can consider reusing, or at least building on top of an existing matrix server.
Completely agreed.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#63Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
For me I think “written in Rust”actually does add a lot. It is a signal that this will be easy to build, easy to deploy (because it is compiled into a single binary in general), memory safe, and likely to be written by a someone that cares about performance and efficiency. I think those are all valuable hints.
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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#64How is bot support ? (Or just regular accounts that can send messages using APIs and not GUI clients) I run an instance of matrix for alert bots only but Synapse is too heavy and Dendrite is focusing too much on federation and less of chat related features.
It doesn't seem like they have explicit bot support yet given their roadmap[1]. It's supposed to be in their next update though.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#65Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
Totally agree. It's not good for HN to have this kind of repetitive language promotion on the front page. I could see if this was the first major project written in the language, which would make it noteworthy, but something like this needs to stand on its own without the upvotes of Rust fans.
It bothers me that we don't view it as a problem on this board the fact that we have an entire upvote/downvote brigade that reacts purely on whether you're speaking good or ill about Rust.
I'm not one to tell moderators what to do but on some boards people get told off severely for such behavior.
"x in rust"[1] threads are so prevalent that they should get a ranking penalty.
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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#66Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
This is getting very lousy.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#67Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
But apart from the advertisement of language choice, an OSS alternative is quite good, no? I’d be keen to try it out.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#68From what I've seen, the quality of the experience is astounding. Well done!
To the Revolt developers: I believe your "Verify your Revolt account" email contains a link that can only be clicked once. I've heard that gmail (and other email clients) automatically visit the links of email, so that may cause some problems.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#69How is bot support ? (Or just regular accounts that can send messages using APIs and not GUI clients) I run an instance of matrix for alert bots only but Synapse is too heavy and Dendrite is focusing too much on federation and less of chat related features.
What about Conduit? Recently entered beta and is also written in rust.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#70Instead of yet another app/platform, why not Matrix protocol?
Especially interesting as they intend to support a matrix bridge: https://revolt.chat/roadmap#checkbox40 . It seems like it would be easier to just use Matrix "natively" and then you also have a mostly-working Discord bridge for free. Plus the likely value here is largely the client, so you can consider reusing, or at least building on top of an existing matrix server.
Another interesting point is that Conduit (Rust-based implementation of the Matrix homeserver) got a beta release last week.