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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by diggan on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:26AM (#43278505)
The backend seems to be a fairly standard Rust project, you basically run `cargo build --release` and then deploy the binary. For the frontend, it seems like a pretty standard frontend project, you install dependencies, then run build command and you have a bunch of website assets you deploy to your server.

Overall, seems pretty standard and easy to deploy. Most complicated would be to also run the various services that are supporting the backend, but again, not overly complicated.

Is there something specific that is missing to be able to self-host this?

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by moiz41510 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:10AM (#43280358)
I think it's pointless to selfhost if you have to recompile an app in order to connect to your server. The team should have a field box to add a server URL.
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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by remram on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:40PM (#43287017)
It doesn't look like this is the case? I'm looking at https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted/blob/master/README... where you are told to update 2 config files.
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