A couple weeks ago Discord announced their plans to go down the IPO route. This means that there is now a ticking clock until the platform goes full-on enshittified like so many others before them.
Last time i checked last year there weren’t many options to migrate to, mostly Matrix communities (which are not quite the same thing) and Revolt Chat (which is a non-federated but FOSS and self-hostable drop-in replacement for Discord). Revolt sounds like the logical route as it’s clearly designed for just this exact role, but it seems it’s still early in development and not yet ready for the average Discord user (looks like the voice functions in particular are still in development)
Has this changed or improved since then? I feel like the use case of “IRC servers, but modern!” should have been solved years ago but feels like it hasn’t, i have lots of non-technical people who heavily use Discord who I’d love to rescue from it before it starts actively burning, a replacement that isn’t complicated and has all it’s features would be welcome.
what about rocket chat? https://www.rocket.chat/
Two companies I worked at used rocket and I despised it every time.
They’re very commercial oriented. I don’t think you can host a free server with them with more than 25 people without paying out big $$$.
It’s self hostable, they have a docker file.
But does the self hostable option have a licensing system/cap?
The pricing page implies the self hostable option is limited to 25 seats.
Looks like it doesn’t. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/18a2624/now_that_rocketchat_65_limits_to_25_users_or_less/
Given what they’ve recently started doing I don’t think I would recommend it now, however.
Ah, so it’s just a weird default you can still override in a poorly documented manner… That’s, maybe okay.
What are you referring to about them doing recently?
That thread was posted three months ago, so I assume this was a recent change.
Gotcha, I wasn’t sure if you were aware of an additional concerning development or it was just this 🙂