Anyone using Revolt as a Discord alternative? What has your experience with it been? Do the voice chats work reliably? What about screen sharing? Is it easy to use? What hardware do you host it on? What about moving people over from Discord to Revolt?
I’m considering buying some.more solid self hosting hardware at some point and considering hosting a Revolt server for friends and a community that we’re moderating.
Other software recomendations are also welcome, but keep in mind that voice chats and screen sharing are features that we very often use, so something that’s primarily text-based like matrix won’t work.
I’d also like to hear your thoughts on converting people to non-mainstream software. I’d expect it to not work so smoothly, since discord is such a go-to platform for so many people and most of them follow multiple communities on there. The convenience aspect is a big thing.
Please share whatever thoughts you have on this topic.
It’s now called Stoat Chat due to copyright reasons. It doesn’t have as poverful server management as DC or bots but a solid option if you can get your frineds to use it. I think you are thinking of the wrong thing regarding servers, you don’t need any hardware for one it’s like discord, the server exsists on the service servers. It’s like you just create one and use it for free. VC should be fine nowdays idk about screensharing never tested it but it should work. It is easier than DC due to it having less features.
It can be self hosted, but to connect the clients to self-hosted servers you have to edit config files, so it’s a very user hostile solution.
I have no thoughts, but Matrix isn’t only text based.
You should of course try different clients first to see if it’s viable, I don’t know if it’s gotten good yet.
Voice chat should work quite well now though, I think.
Video and voice chat with matrix works well once it’s set up. I… Struggled a bit setting it up, and I don’t think I’m the exception.
Haven’t tried screen sharing yet.
You could also try https://movim.eu/
It is XMPP based and supports a/v group calls and screen sharing. Voice channels like Discord are planned.
Not yet
Also they changed name to stout or something
A couple years ago when I was preparing for a possible future exodus from Discord, I tried to self-host a Revolt instance, but I found that it was lacking in some important features, and there was some internal drama going on about licensing. I don’t know the specifics, but it felt messy at the time and I ended up just hosting a Matrix instance instead. I haven’t seen what it’s like these days.
I am trying to self host stoatchat, formally revoltchat but it is a pain to setup in docker. Also self hosting it and trying to run the clients to connect is not intuitive for users.
I do have another chat running after only 2 hours besides the voicechat, I still need to work on that side. Maybe this weekend.
https://github.com/hackthedev/dcts-shipping
Downside is the Linux client is a little tricky for me to get running as they only supply an app image and getting it to run and save it’s config is not working right but that may just be my issue never running app images before.
I wanna try matrix, but it’s crazy to me that no clients, even the official clients, support all the features. It really makes me hesitate lol
The real question is, “which one of the gazillion voice chat apps can properly filter audio without a lengthy setup that my mongoloid friends will skip?”
I am the guy moving the group to different apps and platforms, some follow more reluctantly but in the end we stick together. We’ve jumped from TS2 to Skype, Dolby Axon, Mumble, Hangouts, Discord, Mumble and back to Discord. Now I’m getting a strong whiff of enshittification, and I’m weighing my options. We’re about 10-12 but mostly 4 or 5 active at a time.
Jami, Matrix, Jitsi, Rocket and again ol reliable Mumble… It’d be nice if mumble had screen share and a better automatic audio setup, so far the best quality of vc over any other app/service.
I’ll check out Movim I saw named in the comments, any other hidden gem I should try?
mongoloid
Hey, what the fuck?
Maybe rocket.chat but it’s aimed at business so idk
