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Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
My question, maybe a bit more meta - is why not instead work on features for matrix and a client like element? As if the world needs yet another slack-like. xkcd_15_competing_standards.png
There's not much (any ?) open-source self-hostable good slack/discord-like apps. Open source projects usually focus on federation and/or encryption when Revolt focus on UI/UX. If you're looking for a free software that just works, with good UI and you don't care for encryption, that might just be the best option out there. I'm not sure you can find anything more convincing.
There is Mattermost which is very good self hosted alternative to slack. Big players like CERN are using it.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#253Perhaps offtopic, but why is it so common with new tools for the language it's written in, of all things, to be selected as the top selling point?
Rust is such a niche language still that I'd consider it a red flag if I was an investor.
I would consider it was a interesting flag if I was an investor.
Many startups choose languages because of the benefices that they have, I cant see discord as it is nowadays without Elixir for example.
But obviously, some startups choose because its cool, this ones you shall avoid.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#254Also working on a Discord alternative, albeit my project is a decentralized version — neat to see the space has traction. One thing I couldn’t quickly surmise: it looks like your services are centralized and neither servers/spaces (whatever terminology you’re using for logical groupings of communities) nor DMs have support for encryption. Do you have plans to support this? I don’t mean to ask this as a FUD spreader,…
Is it that "Howler chat" app? Is it usable today?
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
written in Rust! don't forget to `curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh`! Footnote: As the Rust community continues to bash everyone over the head about how safe it is while completely fucking up the 101 shit we've all been saying not to do for over 20 years, I'm going to continue to treat it how it smells.
At the risk of replying to an overtly aggressive post on language bashing nonetheless - can you explain why rustups implementation of `curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh` is worth mentioning? My understanding, from the 1,000 other times these flames start, is it's done properly and no more dangerous than any other way of running 3rd party binaries from a remote source. Regardless of any other thoughts on Rust folks I'll…
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
You would make a bad investor if you can't recognize the writing on the wall.
Which is?
That Rust has rapidly gone from niche language to powering projects at some of the biggest names in technology, and will almost certainly continue to increase in that marketshare.
https://foundation.rust-lang.org/members/ just look at the companies that are a part of the foundation.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#257Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UX of just being able to naturally sit idling in a voice chat and have friends drop in at will is the point of discord and it's done very well. This user interaction being a first-class citizen is a big deal. Maybe alien to some people, but I've spend the last 17 years of my life hanging out in Xfire/Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble/Discord and I think it's one of the absolute best things that tech has been able to give us,…
I don't understand, is there some reason you cannot idle in a Matrix room? Again I don't know, but for the sake of discussion it would be good to mention that.
Not GP, but Discord user too. UX matters. People are very sensitive to the context of features, what the subtle meaning of using them is, how we initiate the communication and how it all "feels" like, for lack of a better word.
Kind of like there is no difference between (s)ftp and dropbox, and yet there is.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Currently mongodb is fine for us. As someone who has administered too many MongoDBs, those are some famous last words.
Cassandra or HBase are not exactly a utopia either though
discord has a good writeup of their migration from mongo to cassandra. https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#260It's not Rust, it's Electron...
Backend is in rust, but I'm disappointed too.
I really don't understand people who are 'disappointed' with anything that uses Electron. Sure, it's not as performant as a native app, but writing and maintaining a different native app for every platform you wish to target, and then keeping their UIs united, is unreasonable for most people.
I'd be more disappointed if they didn't use Electron.