Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord

Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Shadonototro on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:11AM (#28434446)

it's not written in Rust, it is written in Typescript

the backend is written in Rust

if you use Discord, you don't care about the backend, it doesn't run on your machine

This is something i notice about rust users, they promote "written in Rust" more than the products

Very bad marketing

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by breakfastduck on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:18AM (#28434529)

I'd wager that in general the crowd frequenting this site are much more interested in what the back-end / protocol is written in than what the web app is.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by hammyhavoc on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:49AM (#28434871)

I guess I'm not a part of this "general" then.

Solutions should solve a problem. Tech demos should demonstrate tech.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by breakfastduck on Saturday September 11, 2021 @10:16AM (#28492145)

You might not be, hence 'general' and not 'all'...

This application solves a problem. An application is more than its front end...

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by jsuqo on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:58AM (#28434984)

Funny that they are not encrypted and also based in the EU, so any kind of "revolt" against the status quo couldn't ever happen using their platform. https://revolt.chat/aup

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by robertlagrant on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:44AM (#28434809)

> if you use Discord, you don't care about the backend, it doesn't run on your machine

If you use Discord you probably don't care about self hosting, which a Revolt user might.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Felk on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:29PM (#28436553)

Note that this post was not made by any of the developers but by a third party, and they chose the title.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by adamnemecek on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:26AM (#28434618)

> if you use Discord, you don't care about the backend, it doesn't run on your machine

Right, but for a self hosted project this might of interest.

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Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord by Shadonototro on Monday September 06, 2021 @12:00PM (#28435005)

Good point

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