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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by cies on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:53AM (#43278656)
This is sorely lacking on the homepage! All FLOSS is expected to link to the source from the homepage.
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by Mashimo on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:33AM (#43278967)
Yeah, I had to click around a bit to find the link. Oddly it was only on the discover page for servers I found it. Bottom left corner https://rvlt.gg/discover/servers

But now I also know where to go if I'm in need of a femboy community.

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by MK2k on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:13AM (#43281836)
front page, scroll down, there's Developers - Source Code
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by JFingleton on Thursday March 06, 2025 @07:05AM (#43279266)
Agreed - I usually scroll to the bottom of landing pages to see the Github link - which Revolt did not have. Perhaps a suggestion to the developers?

It's an unwritten rule :)

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by internetter on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:18AM (#43278848)
> 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 by prmoustache on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:24AM (#43278890)
Nobody but I don't believe any company saying their product is open source if they aren't willing to point me to where to find the code right away.
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by cies on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:20AM (#43278859)
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 by mattl on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:42AM (#43282195)
Not at all when the software is not developer focused.
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by Aachen on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:47AM (#43282265)
May even be required, if you have a license that requires sharing the code along with the product (AGPL). Still not sure why that license isn't more popular, isn't it in the open source spirit that you can get the code whenever you use the product? Same as when you get the binary with GPL license, that you have a right to see what code you're running?
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by extraduder_ire on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:01PM (#43286866)
There's a considerable amount of FUD around AGPL. Mostly around never being able to actually redistribute exactly what people are accessing, IIRC. I remember conversations about it being rehashed on here constantly a few years back.
Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by cies on Friday March 07, 2025 @03:47AM (#43288385)
It's only popular if you want to avoid big biz to use your software under that license. Big biz avoids AGPL like the plague.

You could do a dual license model, where a traditional license can be bought if you dont want to go with AGPL and have the money.