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Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Also, only the backend is written in Rust. The desktop client is an Electron app: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop

Now I want to know if HN hates Electron more than it loves Rust. Or do they perfectly cancel out?

Electron is MAX_HATE, Rust is MAX_LOVE, but Discord is more Electron than it is anything. As in, I don't care if Rust runs on their servers if Electron runs on my desktop.

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Both are planned features

Do you have any plans for capturing game audio on Windows and Linux? It's very annoying to have to boot into Windows if I want to stream a game with audio to some friends.

screen share wont be a feature for a while, but the hope is to capture game audio as well

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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post #94
post #89

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Also, only the backend is written in Rust. The desktop client is an Electron app: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop

Now I want to know if HN hates Electron more than it loves Rust. Or do they perfectly cancel out?

Personally I see “Written in rust” as more of a meme, often using buzzwords like “blazing fast” and “memory safe.” Electron is definitely worse than rust is good.

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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post #94

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Now I want to know if HN hates Electron more than it loves Rust. Or do they perfectly cancel out?

Personally I see “Written in rust” as more of a meme, often using buzzwords like “blazing fast” and “memory safe.” Electron is definitely worse than rust is good.

> Blazing fast

So have you measured it or do you just mean you haven't implemented as many features? -> Usually the latter.

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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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?

A large part was due to confusion with the company that makes League of Legends, from what I understand.

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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I hate the name personally. I would not feel comfortable asking a normal person (or, now that I think about it, even someone tech-savvy and privacy conscious) “hey come and join my Revolt server”. At best, it sounds like I’d be inviting them to play some online game.

It’s not like the term “discord” didn’t invite allusions along the same vector. In this regard, the “namers” chose a name that did a hat tip to the original term and communicated “but more!”

That said, not a fan of either name myself.

The ad hoc poll going forward for funsies could be: if/when you the reader do a discord clone, which language will you be bragging it’s done in, and which name will you be choosing for your project?

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Hi, one of the developers here, there was no specific reason why we went mongo at the start, but there have been talks to move to a different database if needed. Currently mongodb is fine for us.

> 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

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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Instead of yet another app/platform, why not Matrix protocol?

Hi, one of the revolt developers here, we wanted something contained and selfhosted instead of something federated, see https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation on why we dont plan on adding federation

Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

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> "In terms of the situation, we started the project when none of us even knew what federation was, so it was never even considered from the start." Well, yes, it is honest, but it also is disturbing - which other well-known network principles were unknown to them?

Is it really "disturbing" if it's maintained by mostly college students? If this was done by industry veterans I could understand your stance, but the way things are this feels uncalled for.

I mean it is a little absurd, when everyone on the planet is using email, which is federated...
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