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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#82haha i had to laugh at the language selectors: {flag:uk} English (traditional) {flag:us} English (simplified)
they might have to update their translation to (limited) soon based on how the current admin is blitzkriegeering
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#83The 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.
I thought the main value of discord was quick and solid voice / game stream integration.
I rarely feel any connection between servers, but that might just be me.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#84Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public, I reckon this might be made in preparation for it. I think it is a wise move to offer an alternative. The design is very similar to Discord, could this possibly even go to a copyright breach or is the bar for that set too high?
When I first saw Discord (est. 2015), my first thought was that it looked exactly like Slack (est. 2013) except was in dark mode.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#85A British company making a chat app. What’s the privacy policy? 5 eyes first then you?
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer IRC over Discord any day but it's very hard to convince other people not familiar with it to make a move away from Discord to it. When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up.
> When people get used to certain features they generally don't want to give them up. Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history and drag 'n drop file upload. Having to host your own bot for pagetitle preview and user management was also not fun. You can selfhost your IRC client, which eliminates som of the drawbacks but that also only works for a small portion of people.
> Yeah, I would find it hard going back to not having a offline history
It's funny but I personally prefer that the IRC server isn't required to store every chat log indefinitely. You're right though, these are solvable problems, BNC for example but we're getting a little off topic.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#87Pretty cool. I just wish it had its own identity and didn't look like Walmart Discord.
I'm all for good UI/UX spreading as much as possible for the benefit of users. That said, I've barely used discord and thus can't rightly say if it has good UI/UX.
Do you have other opinions about the UI/UX of apps you haven't used?
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lol, the design of discord is identical to about 9000 chat apps no?
There really is no other app in this space on the same quality as Discord. Discord was born out of Skype, Teamspeak and similar being so awful to use. Discord took the complaints from these and made a product which was the best version of them all.
Discord has always seemed like a Slack clone with better voice chat to me.
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#89The 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.
I think the biggest selling point is clearly the community. Without the community revolt.chat is just another Mattermost or Matrix. Discord is popular for one reason and one reason only, all the young people are there. The secret is how did they get popular with young kids? Well they offered a free service obviously, just like Google, just like Facebook. I've been trying to explain this to a friend recently. You're o…
> they took
They are more than likely still taking, based on the 17% layoff a few months ago
As is Snapchat, miraculously (Snapchat is the most wildly mismanaged social media company from a fiscal perspective it’s wild)
Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
#90Is 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 me that whoever makes this does not have the user's best interest in mind.
the UI is also full of stuff that requires an expensive license, and i did not see an easy way to remove that stuff when self hosting.