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GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform (github.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Has anyone tried this? It's discord reverse engineered.

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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Because Stoat is also riddled with problems and Matrix is a dysfunctional hot mess.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In the proper timeline the superior proprietary platform Axon beat out Discord.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The cumulative hours we've lost screwing around with the manual placement spacial audio on Axon... When it went tits up we switched to Mumble tho

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How is Matrix dysfunctional?

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 9 hours ago

Where do I even start…

The verification process constantly breaks
Sessions get randomly unverified
Pictures aren't being send occasionally
Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
The "experimental" voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain can't be disabled)
The Calls via Jitsi somehow have a worse UX than Skype had in its worst days
The verification via emojis uses different emoji styles, missing the point completely
Due to the session mess "Can't decrypt message" will be your best friend
Even if you got a verified session it sometimes fails to decrypt a message
The federation is SLOW. As in "wait many many minutes" slow.
The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
There're no proper moderation tools
There isn't even a god damn admin panel! For the longest time you had to MANUALLY CURL THE API. Even today you have to mess with third-party admin panels that usually don't have all options exposed
Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isn't.
They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isn't available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly don't expect anything but text chats with pictures there.

I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. It's a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Don't even bother trying it.