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Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by Varelion » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #21

Front page says 150MB RAM, About page says 90MB. Whole site is full of LLM-isms (em-dashes, stilted 'X. Y. Z. .' constructions). It's so boring. It says "We put one prompt worth of effort into our landing page". Just like all the others. "No ads · No tracking · No ID verification · Free forever" - why would anyone believe this for a closed source application that, presumably, you want to monetize? Servers and develop…

Exactly. I am simply done using any service whose source code I cannot audit myself.

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by acley » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

jimmygrapes wrote: post #40

Yeah ok. 2025 to 2026 full of slop signals, LLC reg number from April 2026 to the same address in multiple reports as ultra scammy: https://malwaretips.com/blogs/30-n-gould-st-sheridan-wy-scam... https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/local/another-scam-rec... https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/scammers-use-reg... Lot of other red flags for me but those are even more vibe-based than everything about this.

yeah 30 N Gould is a registered agent. We registered a US entity mainly for stripe + dmca since users upload stuff which content tons of restriced contents. it was the cheapest way to do it without a US office.

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by acley » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #21

Front page says 150MB RAM, About page says 90MB. Whole site is full of LLM-isms (em-dashes, stilted 'X. Y. Z. .' constructions). It's so boring. It says "We put one prompt worth of effort into our landing page". Just like all the others. "No ads · No tracking · No ID verification · Free forever" - why would anyone believe this for a closed source application that, presumably, you want to monetize? Servers and develop…

Yeah, the RAM numbers are off, those are from different builds, and we never synced them. my bad, fixing today. And it's two of us and the landing page got like a day of attention because everything else felt more urgent. not really a defense, just what happened. Same reason it's nowhere near as rich as Discord's site.

"free forever" — it's already been free 1.5 years, we were Zorium before the rebrand. If we do add a paid plan later the stuff that's free now stays free, new stuff gets charged for. we also build business software, so we've got spare server capacity, runs fine on it.

Thanks for the feedback tho :)

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by riddley » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 12:09 AM UTC

Cider9986 wrote: post #49

https://fluxer.app seems to be the best alternative so far, by a mile. Gained a bunch of users during some controversy too.

Haven is pretty rad. https://github.com/ancsemi/Haven

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by lenkite » Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #21

Front page says 150MB RAM, About page says 90MB. Whole site is full of LLM-isms (em-dashes, stilted 'X. Y. Z. .' constructions). It's so boring. It says "We put one prompt worth of effort into our landing page". Just like all the others. "No ads · No tracking · No ID verification · Free forever" - why would anyone believe this for a closed source application that, presumably, you want to monetize? Servers and develop…

All the people saying AI makes less mistakes than humans are just completely wrong. That has NOT been my experience in the last year and half after reviewing ~100 AI-assisted PRs. Humans made LESS mistakes when they took direct responsibility. (Some developers don't make any mistakes) Also, humans don't generally tend to repeat the same mistakes again and again.

General code quality has gone to shit and problems are discovered far too late.