Revolt - open source and privacy-friendly Discord alternative

[marcusquinn]

Looks like development is progressing nicely:

• https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/projects/3/views/1
• https://revolt.chat/publicbeta

Anyone looking at packaging?

[murgero]

@marcusquinn Yeah this looks really nice - self-hosted discord is much better than discord for sure
Would love to see this with federation of some kind (closer to matrix not ActivityPub)

[mehdi]

They seem to not have true desktop apps yet, so cannot support global push-to-talk keys... Sadly, it's a must have IMO.

[LoudLemur]

@enabl-ist

How does Revolt compare against Element, another Discord alternative:

https://element.io

Element is Free Software.

[murgero]

@loudlemur Element is not a discord alt - but rather federated instant messaging. But both share the same common goal of allowing messages between friends. Both look and work really well from what I've seen and element is already on cloudron

[jdaviescoates]

@mehdi said in Revolt - open source and privacy-friendly Discord alternative:

cannot support global push-to-talk

I think Mumble can do that?

[A Former User]

Its super basic rn and lack of apps makes it awful on mobile. Very promising though.

[A Former User]

Also just a side note on this, it regularly freezes in the PWA and there is no noise to indicate you entered a voice chat or who joined. Good to follow for sure but IMHO nowhere near usable for anything but basic text chat.

[robi]

There was a new release last month on March 4th.

Server seems to be a Rust app

Web App is nice
Desktop is electron based

Looking very professional considering it's college kids making it.

https://developers.revolt.chat/stack

[A Former User]

@robi Oh absolutely. Just had a weird issue where it didn't let me confirm a new account. This is still very commendable. I know I wasn't doing stuff like this as a student lol

[robi]

Would be good to start testing this.

Desktop apps for Linux, MacOS and Windows.
Mobile app: rvmob
Minecraft client
TUI: CLI based client

Anyone able to get it running?

[JLX89]

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[RazielKanos]

any update on this? it would really be a NEAT addition and i know a lot of folks very interested in this app

[jayonrails]

absolutely support this project and the integration to Cloudron!

[RazielKanos]

Well, with the latest AI Bullshit, Discord fills shit pants. Revolt would come in handy

[girish]

@RazielKanos never used revolt (or much of discord for that matter). How is it fundamentally different from element/matrix or rocket.chat ? I guess the UI?

[marcusquinn]

Just logged in to look at the demo of the latest. It is a very nice UI, although credit to Discord for their original design. It is very fast too, perhaps the fastest chat UX I've seen too. Reaction emojis seem to be a missing feature but maybe that's intentional.

Honestly, I can see the value in having it packaged as a Cloudron app because the type of people using these communities have the numbers and attitude to broadcast their praise and viral referrals to anything, so maybe Revolt on Cloudron would gain a lot of referrals for Cloudron.

Between the Discord and Slack communities, the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for Revolt is huge. Element is OK. Rocket Chat we know the issues with that. Nextcloud Talk does the job. But from my experience with chat apps, since Atlassian's HipChat, I can see the distinction and USP of Revolt. So still a from me on this.

[RazielKanos]

@girish
Well, it's nearly a 1:1 clone of discord, and so it has a massive potential for streamers and their communities to be used. Discord has taken the voice chat market by storm, but now and there more and more stories get published that they log EVERYTHING.

Especially if - for example THIS GUY (

) would pick up a story about revolt on cloudron, make sure your gates will get stormed

[murgero]

@RazielKanos it looks like it is just a 3rd party discord client as opposed to a 1:1 clone. Never mind - it does seem to be separate from discord.

[nikkuexe]

It does look nice.