Why don't you allow OAuth / social login via Google, GitHub and yes, even Discord? Seems like it would make adoption much easier.
We started a contribution towards that end: https://github.com/authifier/authifier/pull/63
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#132What do people find upsetting about Discord? It's free, there's no ads, it's reliable, it has many established communities, it's cross-platform and even works in the browser, supports voice chat and screen sharing. What more could you ask for? Or, are you asking for too much? What I mean is: What innovative functionality is missing to such a degree, that if it was introduces, would make people abandon Discord?
It's very, very badly performing. And yet every time I want to start it, it requires another 15 updates.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#133Is 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…
maybe you're talking about mattermost?
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#134What do people find upsetting about Discord? It's free, there's no ads, it's reliable, it has many established communities, it's cross-platform and even works in the browser, supports voice chat and screen sharing. What more could you ask for? Or, are you asking for too much? What I mean is: What innovative functionality is missing to such a degree, that if it was introduces, would make people abandon Discord?
That's exactly the question - how does a free communication app achieve a multi-billion dollar valuation despite not having ads or directly selling user data?
Discord's business model relies on attracting a massive user base to secure substantial investments and potentially a lucrative acquisition. We've seen again and again and again what happens once acquisition takes place.
Also a big existing investor in Discord is Tecent which, under Chinese law, could grant the government access to Discord's extensive user data.
So yeah.. it's not about features it's about freedom.
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#136haha 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...
You know it's way more traditional because they democratically pushed themselves into an oligarchy ;)
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The secret is how did they get popular with young kids? Well they offered a free service obviously, just like Google, just like Facebook. In 2015, when they first got started, they marketed towards gamers (i.e. boys and men in their teens and early 20's). Even though the company's tagline at the time was that it offered a better Skype, Discord was more inclined to be a better replacement for a moribund Xfire and an…
Skype was also still popular among gamers when Discord was first available. That's what my friends and I switched to Discord from. These days I refuse to use Discord for political reasons though.
What political reasons? I googled for discord political controversies but didn't find anything too shocking.
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At first I thought you were being brutal but...a GitHub page with a screenshot would be better. The aesthetic of the website is...unique
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#139The github https://github.com/revoltchat
This is sorely lacking on the homepage! All FLOSS is expected to link to the source from the homepage.
Agreed - I usually scroll to the bottom of landing pages to see the Github link - which Revolt did not have. Perhaps a suggestion to the developers?
It's an unwritten rule :)
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#140What do people find upsetting about Discord? It's free, there's no ads, it's reliable, it has many established communities, it's cross-platform and even works in the browser, supports voice chat and screen sharing. What more could you ask for? Or, are you asking for too much? What I mean is: What innovative functionality is missing to such a degree, that if it was introduces, would make people abandon Discord?
Let me preface this by saying I use Discord daily to keep in touch with friends. It's a great digital campfire where you can relax with people, talk with them over voice and video or just post random stuff.
The issue is that Discord has replaced things which it shouldn't have, the internet forums. Discord is the epitome of a golden cage. It is a prison for information, a black hole.
I'm not even talking about the absolutely atrocious search functionality, but the fact that information inside the Discord walls is impossible to find from the outside. You can't search across discord communities, none of the content there is indexed by web search engines. Entire communities have FAQs and knowledge as pins inside threads inside Discord servers. Things which used to be on the web.
15 years ago, these discussions would've taken place on forums and on IRC to a lesser extent. IRC itself was a really bad information black hole, but at least the forums were great. They supported long running discussions and were easy to search.
Now everything disappeared into effectively hidden Discord chats and youtube videos where you need to watch 8 different idiots bramble on for 10 minutes before you find the 30 second segment of information that you were actually looking for and could've been a single paragraph.