Quick Links
For Users
Revolt is an open source chat website/program/app. While the project doesn’t say it out loud, Revolt is designed as a replacement for Discord. It has many (but not yet all) of the features present in Discord.
Revolt has a web app, desktop programs, as well as mobile apps.
Quick Start Gide
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- Download the revolt app:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.revolt
- iOS: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mGSCJe13
- Create an account in the app missing your email (no verification required)
- Select a username (uses a number tag system like username#1234)
OR
- Sign up on the website: https://app.revolt.chat/login/create
- Use the web app to access Revolt: https://app.revolt.chat/
- Use a desktop client to access Revolt:
- Windows and MacOS: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop/releases/
- Linux: https://flathub.org/apps/chat.revolt.RevoltDesktop
- There is also a Windows store version which they say is recommended for stability: ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9nmtvmrj7n1k
For Developers
I’m not much of a developer myself, so I’ll leave some of the links here.
Here’s the official GitHub repository
- Contributing to Revolt as a developer
- Other ways to help the Revolt project
- Frontend book
- Backend book
- Android book
Full Revolt developer documentation here.
Other Alternatives
The following are some other services that offer discord like chat:
Spacebar Looks promising but seems to be rather early in development. No apps yet. Built as a 1-to-1 reverse engineer of discord, with compatability of existing clients and bots in mind.
This is a very wonderful app from the little I’ve tested. I can’t wait for it to be fully fleshed out! A discord alternative has very much been needed.
The missing video and screen sharing are probably the biggest things that would keep me in my group for moving over. The project looks promising though, and I’ll definitely be watching it closely. Especially since discord is quickly going downhill.