Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative

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  • revolt

    Repository for miscellaneous repository management and discussions: https://github.com/revoltchat/revolt/discussions

  • self-hosted

    Deploy Revolt using Docker. (by revoltchat)

  • You can fully self host it (server and everything): https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted

    This is for folks that want a self-governed / "no big brother" Discord alternative, it's quite nice for that purpose, but it's lacking the Discord integrations (audio chat, etc.) that make it better for gamers.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • onedev

    Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

  • Gogs

    Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

  • myrepo.wiki

  • I agree in general, but the wiki specifically is just another git repository that you can clone.

    e.g. for a repo at mholm/myrepo

      git clone https://github.com/mholm/myrepo.wiki

  • Element

    A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

  • I saw this and got excited but no, this isn't discord voice channels. This is an integrated jitsi meet call. It looks like some sort of prototype has been merged to develop though:

    https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/pull/21476

  • Mumble

    Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

  • Mumble's latency is unbeatable imo, it's basically their main focus and shows.

    The sticking point for me is the lack of persistent messages, something the devs strangely think is a privacy plus. Issue open since 2016: https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2560

    If you drop out for a minute you won't have access to anything that was posted in chat, which makes it useless for anything other than voice only comms, that might suit some business purposes but I've always needed to post links or screenshots in chat during meetings.

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  • OpenAsar

    Open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar

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