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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by internetter »

_mitterpach wrote: post #31

Note 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?

> I reckon this might be made in preparation for it

Revolt has been in development for many years

> could this possibly even go to a copyright breach

Ianl but I’d imagine this would require discord to prove they own the “multiple groups, with subchannels” paradigm, which would be difficult when slack exists

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by internetter »

q0uaur wrote: post #90
mid-kid wrote: post #51

Is 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…

What are you talking about. Revolt is a donation funded FOSS project

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by weberer »

bilekas wrote: post #61
jeffhuys wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who determines what’s credible or not? This sounds like “if we don’t like what you have to say, you’re gone”.

And why is that a bad thing ? That's the free market. The business owns the platform and you don't have an innate 'right' to be there.

Why is it a good thing? What's the motivation behind it? It just seems like a really unnecessary restriction to have when you're trying to launch a FOSS alternative existing software.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by internetter »

cies wrote: post #76
Mashimo wrote: post #12

The github https://github.com/revoltchat

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

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by cies »

internetter wrote: post #95
cies wrote: post #76

Earlier 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

Go to ten FLOSS project and check. Some want to be able to quickly assess some tings (is this JS/PHP/Python, or is this Rust/Go -- my interest).

Someone posted the github link here on HN: why would that be?

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by dan_can_code »

agumonkey wrote: post #83
lordofgibbons wrote: post #47

The 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.

For the average user, absolutely it's voice and game streaming. But I've found the more I've used discord, is that a lot of online communities, that typically would exist on Reddit or a forum, also have discord servers for communicating and community management.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by agumonkey »

dan_can_code wrote: post #97
agumonkey wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For the average user, absolutely it's voice and game streaming. But I've found the more I've used discord, is that a lot of online communities, that typically would exist on Reddit or a forum, also have discord servers for communicating and community management.

oh yeah through a reddit bounce that is true, it's their live chat platform in a way :)

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by alwayslikethis »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #47

The 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

True. As it also hits a local minimum in terms of user experience (to the point that the average user does not care), I don't think it is possible to make a new centralized (even self-hosted) alternative on technical merits alone, since you necessarily incur a cost in the form of signing up to every server.

The only hope is a decentralized alternative like Matrix which is enshittification-resistant. I actually think the server part of matrix is more or less ready for a good Discord-like client, but the client side is lacking.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by prmoustache »

bryanhogan wrote: post #53
wooger wrote: post #38

Earlier 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.

They must have been super crappy them because Discord is terrible to see and terrible to use.
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