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Hello friends!
Im a developer from austria and im super excited for this post. A while ago i started the development of a new chat app thats supposed to become a alternative to discord / guilded etc.
The goal of the app is to be able to host a chat app yourself, like TeamSpeak while it looks more modern like discord/guiled etc. Its still in a early access kinda state but its usable :)
I once had a server on discord with about 2k members and we had issues with users using alt accounts etc mass dming people and when i reached out to discord and well their support isnt the best. Being this depended was something i didnt like as their reply took 3 months and didnt solve anything either.
I wasnt much happy with discords moderation tools as well and used to have a custom bot where i implemented my own “more advanced” moderation tools.
Because of this i tried guilded and became staff member on the 16k server /anime but turns out its as flawed as discord.
there were other alternatives like revolt but i didnt like the user interface much (personal preference) and matrix which seemed “hard” to get started with.
fosscord was something i never tried because to my knowledge it was a reverse engineered server etc etc which is why i didnt get started with it as i didnt see a future in that. (originally)
people also mentioned platforms like discourse but after checking it out it looked like it was paid to some extend which i didnt like.
i also remember TeaSpeak from back then buts its also questionable and its not being actively developed anymore.
I released my app “DCTS” on github a while ago. i love working on it and seeing people contribute and help each other on the project is so sweet i cant describe it but it brings me a lot of joy. im curious how the project goes in the future.