They will have a better stack than Discord once they migrate to Tauri.
At first glance it's hard to even tell them apart, did they copy literally all of the CSS and layout?
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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#103haha i had to laugh at the language selectors: {flag:uk} English (traditional) {flag:us} English (simplified)
Since US English retains more historical features of English and has fewer of the newer ones (especially in light of Received Pronunciation, rhoticity, and random u insertion), one could argue that US English is the more traditional one.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is sorely lacking on the homepage! All FLOSS is expected to link to the source from the homepage.
> All FLOSS is expected to link to the source from the homepage. Says who? I don’t see that in the OSI definition
Nobody but I don't believe any company saying their product is open source if they aren't willing to point me to where to find the code right away.
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#105A British company making a chat app. What’s the privacy policy? 5 eyes first then you?
You know it includes a backdoor for the government.
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#106The offering in its current form ( https://i.imgur.com/zcmEOhr.png ) does not feel truly communal.
What's not communal about it? Should they allow anyone to participate without limits?
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#107>To ensure users stay safe on the platform, we explicitly disallow: >Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories >Spreading false or misleading information that can cause harm to individuals or society is prohibited. This includes conspiracy theories that have been debunked or lack credible evidence. Why? That sounds so dumb to waste resources policing it.
This sounds like a violation of freedom 0, if this extend to the software you run (self hosted).
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
edit- shit, it was rocket.chat, i'm so sorry. Ignore the below, it is for a different "FOSS" discord replacement. i did self-host it for a week to test it out - and honestly i was put off immediately. What happens when you set it up according to the docs, is that it automatically "registers" for a license - the free license being limited to 5 users, even if you self host. Ridiculous, and just right out the gate shows…
What are you talking about. Revolt is a donation funded FOSS project
A benevolent assumption would be that GP tries out a lot of stuff (according to their other comments) and therefore mixed something up, unwittingly spreading FUD about Revolt
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#109Is this still centralized? Or can you self-host without needing a separate client instance for each host?
edit- shit, it was rocket.chat, i'm so sorry. Ignore the below, it is for a different "FOSS" discord replacement. i did self-host it for a week to test it out - and honestly i was put off immediately. What happens when you set it up according to the docs, is that it automatically "registers" for a license - the free license being limited to 5 users, even if you self host. Ridiculous, and just right out the gate shows…
License? Isn't revolt open-source, so you could have as many users as your server can handle? https://github.com/revoltchat/backend uses the AGPL, I assume whatever other things a revolt server requires have similar licenses.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember a gitea update where they said in the release text something like "new github-like ui" and they basically copied all of it (check some screenshot of the latest version)
I would lie if I said I did not ever do something similar, and I am not really aware of any court cases or litigations based on copying a design. Core functionalities, sure. There is many an open source software that could actually use a little bit of copying from the thing they are trying to emulate. GIMP is still one of the ugliest programs I have installed on my computer.
> I am not really aware of any court cases or litigations based on copying a design
Apple tried it in the 90's with the infamous "look and feel" lawsuits against Microsoft. They lost.
They've had more success suing Samsung over phone design and UI (which was about more than "rounded corners" to be sure, but a lot of the patents are still questionable).