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Spacebar server - A reimplementation of the Discord.com backend, built with Typescript and love (by spacebarchat)

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🚀 Core REST API & Gateway for Zaun (by zaunchat)

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server		api
	Project
6	Mentions	1
1,314	Stars	10
2.6%	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	4.5
19 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
TypeScript	Language	Rust
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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server

Posts with mentions or reviews of server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

nginx 443 not accepting connections (took too long to respond)
1 project | /r/webdev | 13 Nov 2022

My apps conf file for nginx is (THIS)[https://github.com/fosscord/fosscord-server/blob/staging/nginx.conf] (the conf file lacks to add ssl certificate location but i added them myself). Now when i run my app, i can access it on the same Internet connection but when from different Internet connection access it it says took too long to respond. Yes i have i have port forwarded port 443.
trouble setting up nginx with duckdns
1 project | /r/nginx | 31 Oct 2022

I installed the nginx by following the guide i linked in the blog and add my website.conf file (i changed the server name in the file i linked to my duckdns and port from 80 to 4000) to http.d folder.
How discord mange 300M socket connection
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

Fosscord
How is content regulated with Mastodon?
2 projects | /r/Mastodon | 27 Apr 2022

It's besides the point but just as a fun fact, this statement isn't quite true if you use "discord server" to mean "discord-compatible servers", since a WIP compatible free server exists and there are some public instances.
Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021
Fosscord - Discord-compatible, selfhostable, chat, voice and video platform
4 projects | /r/freesoftware | 2 Jul 2021

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Posts with mentions or reviews of api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

How discord mange 300M socket connection
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing server and api you can also consider the following projects:

fosscord - 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform [Moved to: https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat]

pgrx - Build Postgres Extensions with Rust!

self-hosted - Deploy Revolt using Docker.

backend - Monorepo for Revolt backend services.

jitsi - Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC and many other useful features.

readyset - Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes.

matrix-appservice-discord - A bridge between Matrix and Discord.

neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

community-instances - A curated list of public Spacebar instances.

Replibyte - Seed your development database with real data ⚡️

sqlx - 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.