They will have a better stack than Discord once they migrate to Tauri.
It seems the progress for that stalled. (Last commit 5 months ago https://github.com/revoltchat/frontend/tree/main/packages/de... )
Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#182What 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?
Closed-source, dumb stuff hidden behind premum,and premium ads and popups almost every time you launch.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#183The biggest selling point of Discord is its insane network effects. There are servers for libraries/frameworks, languages, ai/ml, math, whatever you can think of. And a lot of the adjacent ones will cross-link scheduled events and messages from other servers. I'm really hoping for an alternative. I'm always weary of en-shitification whenever a single platform wins all the users.. like what has happened to Reddit.
> The biggest selling point of Discord is its insane network effects. Ease of use is also up there. (Compared to IRC)
Yes but compared to things like Zulip it loads pretty slow.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#184Seeing as this is closely related to [1], which I also commented on, and in the hopes that someone finds this useful regarding Discord's ownership of your data (where your messages remain even if you delete your account):
If you'd like to delete your Discord messages en masse, I made an open-source tool for that [2]. It leverages a fairly undocumented process using your Discord data package, providing a UI to explore it and choose what to export. The tool gives you step-by-step instructions and a CSV file that Discord expects when you contact their privacy team. It works across all channels in both servers and DMs, even those you no longer have access to.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276504
[2]: https://discorch.org
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#185Looking at https://rvlt.gg/discover/servers it seems that all reasonably active servers are either turkish[0] or anime related.
[0]: Turkey banned Discord in 2024: https://www.reuters.com/technology/turkey-blocks-instant-mes...
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#186What 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?
Discord is American. For many in Europe this is a downside now.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#187Earlier 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…
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.
sorry, i mixed it up with rocket.chat, another "foss" discord replacement.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#188Earlier 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…
I read the FAQ, searched google and the documentation and could not find a single ting about any license.
sorry, i mixed it up with rocket.chat, another "foss" discord replacement.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#189Earlier 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
sorry, i mixed it up with rocket.chat, another "foss" discord replacement.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#190Earlier 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…
maybe you're talking about mattermost?
sorry, i mixed it up with rocket.chat, another "foss" discord replacement.