documentation
Moved to https://github.com/revoltchat/wiki. (by revoltchat)
backend
Monorepo for Revolt backend services. (by revoltchat)
| documentation | backend | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 8 | |
| 25 | 1,457 | |
| - | 10.9% | |
| 4.3 | 9.4 | |
| 10 months ago | 18 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Rust | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
documentation
Posts with mentions or reviews of documentation.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-06.
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Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord written in Rust
I believe it can. The protocol seems pretty thoroughly documented https://developers.revolt.chat/
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Revolt: Open Source Discord Like Chat Platform
Great to see innovation, but it doesn't federate. Being open source alone doesn't bring users freedoms when it comes to social networks. Think of Signal for example, which is very locked down. Social networks/apps/etc. have their moat in their userbase, not the code. Not even tik tok with its famous recommendation algorithm. Reddit used to be open source, now isn't. Forks couldn't take off because the users were/are on the main fork. If it doesn't federate, the network being open source right now helps little. It can be closed any day and users can't do anything about it because >90% don't care.
backend
Posts with mentions or reviews of backend.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-06.
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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
Every time I see one of these projects, I wince because 2/3 of the time the backend is in PHP (no offense). The backend is in a typesafe, memory safe language!
https://github.com/revoltchat/backend
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Selfhosted discord alternative
What's not open source of Revolt Chat? Last time I checked, they were using GPL 3.0.
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How to use API?
Our API is documented here, and there's API libraries for popular programming languages (I'd recommend you use one of those instead of rolling your own implementation). To authenticate as bot you have to pass X-Bot-Token instead of X-Session-Token.
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Issues with channels
Fixed as of https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/commit/86ad72b4264ca08ad39023dacff82684cb0ae9ee.
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How discord mange 300M socket connection
Revolt
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Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord written in Rust
Just want to suggest that if you're interested in doing this in the future, please put in effort to define interfaces up front. I took a quick look at the codebase and it looks like mongo is "in there pretty good"[0] without any abstraction to make it easily shimmable.
Just a little specification around the that interface (Trait) will go a long way to making other backends possible and should make it much easier to know and manage the API contract a capable database must provide.
[0]: https://github.com/revoltchat/delta/blob/master/src/database...
What are some alternatives?
When comparing documentation and backend you can also consider the following projects:
docs - Dyte's documentation portal built with Docusaurus.
dilbert-viewer - A simple comic viewer for Dilbert by Scott Adams
matrix-react-sdk - Matrix SDK for React Javascript
tiktok-rs - Sign TikTok API endpoints by simulating a mobile device
desktop - Revolt Desktop App
server - Spacebar server - A reimplementation of the Discord.com backend, built with Typescript and love