Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by 1oooqooq on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:33AM (#43279993)

that's like selling email with gpg as easy to use compared with newgroup.

anything win when compared to the ultimate underdog. but that's hardly a valid comparisons.

discord only win from other opensource forums because you don't have to own a domain, i guess.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by surajrmal on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:10AM (#43280362)

Like reddit or Facebook groups? Discord being realtime chat is an important part as well. I don't think it was necessarily competing with traditional forums that are post and thread based.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by immibis on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:22AM (#43290390)

Do you though? Do you drop everything to answer notifications as they pop up, or do you answer them at your convenience?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by 1oooqooq on Friday March 07, 2025 @10:08AM (#43290744)

discord as opensource support forums compete with irc (the ultimate underdog) and discourse et al (all which require a domain)

the real time part of irc was taken over by matrix.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by Mashimo on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:18AM (#43280461)

I mostly use Discord for real time chat. And around that time Discord got big it was IRC that filled that roll. Or skype for some.

[ Parent | on HN ]