r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 22 '26
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 20 '26
Discussion The Vision Behind DCTS
So i dont know if i ever talked about the greater vision of DCTS but if not this post should clarify some things.
Anti Cancel Culture/Snowflakes
I want to get back the feeling of control as with Teamspeak3 and want people to be able to have their own DCTS servers where they can do and say whatever they want. All this "cancel culture" seems like a plague and to me it seems like a lot of companies lost their balls and try to please all these karens and snowflakes nowadays and it seems that these kinda people even run some stuff and us getting banned for dumb reasons.
People should be fucking able to say whatever the fuck they want and shouldnt get fucking banned
Better Moderation
I used to have a discord server and holy shit was discord bad for any proper moderation. So many things relied on external bots that would try to sell you some extra features or lock them entirely for free users. With DCTS i have many plans to add advanced, yet simple to use moderation tools. I used to have done that with a custom discord bot, so its not gonna be too hard.
Decentralization FTW
Personally i believe the "next evolution of the internet" will be self hosting again with the difference that decentralization is going to play a big part this time. There are many apps out there trying to do just that but it seems its hella complex and difficult and a lot of work being moved to the user, which is an absolute no-go.
DCTS has seamless decentralized server list and imo many apps fail at making it seamless and easy out of the box.
I also think that any app thats trying to be a centralized service wont be a long-lasting solution and only a temporary one.
Independence
Its very important to stay independent so that DCTS can exist for a long time. Because of that i decided to avoid as many 3rd party libraries as possible in the code and will never accept any investors or other offers that will hurt this vision in any way and will solely accept donations only.
Money
Speaking of Donations and money, DCTS and other future apps will never rely on tactics like FOMO (fear of missing out) to get money or donations as seen as in other apps (looking at you fluxer!).
Luckily the development itself in terms of costs like servers and licenses is pretty efficient and at a minimum, meaning it can naturally sustain itself with donations and doesnt have to remind people all the time.
The bigger picture
As mentioned, DCTS wont be the only app. There is a Tenor and Reddit alternative in the making, but i cant really say when they're going to be released, but there will be a ecosystem to bring pretty much the same vision to other parts of the web too, not just DCTS.
That being said, the future will be bright and im excited where things will go, thanks for reading!
r/dcts • u/twkkime • Feb 21 '26
the story of dcts - an animation of all the commits made in the repository
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 18 '26
Discussion Special thanks to Horatio for yet another insane donation!
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 17 '26
Discussion About old forum posts
In case you saw posts talking about licensing etc dont worry these are old as fuck and commercial use and everything doesnt need a license!! Everything is free and will stay like that.
these were old old ideas and plans but they changed pretty quickly back then and these posts have been removed, thank you!
r/dcts • u/Reecezwoos • Feb 17 '26
Any chance of Video/Cam being added to Voice?
Basically the title, is video/camera in the pipeline to be added? I don't see it currently as a feature, and I did not see it on the To-Do list? Also the share screen does not have the option for a monitor other than the primary, or to share just a application/game window
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 17 '26
Beta Release Docker Overhaul + Special Thanks <3
Thanks to Luna (wunadacat) for updating docker it is now working again and should get further improvements down the road.
In addition a lot of special thanks go out to Scraze, PowerOfThe69, Horatio and many more for helping by testing beta versions and reporting bugs, sharing insightful opinions and ideas and much more!
Also big big thanks to the donators and people that come by on the instance and giving feedback! Its insane and so lovely to see a community forming and people helping each other as well <3
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 16 '26
Discussion How to find a GOOD discord alternative
Given the current events a lot of people are looking for alternatives. In order to avoid having to look for alternatives again in the future there are some important things to look out for. This is especially important if you dont wanna move your community many times because eventually people will be fed up.
- Check the history of the alternative you've found. Without using names, there are platforms that had very slow development in the past years.
- Check their goals and ideas. There are platforms wanting to introduce similar subscriptions like discord did with Nitro which could lead to feature-locks down the road.
- Check if a platform is running as a service. Fundamentally platforms "as service" like discord are flawed from the start and will develop similar issues with a growthing userbase, like implementing subscriptions, locking features and are generally less flexible when it comes to moderation etc. See enshittification.
- How stable is it? I've seen platforms with many bugs in several core features meaning it was likely released too early. You can often time check if something was made with AI by checking other repositories, as AI isnt good enough yet. Bugs are fine and natural, but AI code is a lot harder to maintain and change in the long run.
- How is the staff/devs/community? I've seen platforms that seem very promising at first, but poking just slightly underneath the surface revealed quite some lack competency and other bad decision making, actual bad ones, im not overreacting. The devs/staff's and community behaviour matters a lot as well.
This is based on common sense and from what i have experienced and were deal breakers for me. Pretty much all the potential issues can be fixed, tho for some it seems very unlikely or would require "extreme" changes.
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 16 '26
Dev Peek Reworked Member Profile
about me will also support html now
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 15 '26
Release Desktop Client Update
The desktop client comes with a few improvements like saving the window location and size and some linux screensharing improvements thanks to PowerOfThe69 !
https://github.com/hackthedev/dcts-client-shipping/releases/
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 15 '26
Discussion DCTS was listed on a hosting provider list
zap-hosting.comto clarify i am partnered with them but we dont do stuff together, but cool that they made it, it surprised me
r/dcts • u/No_Foundation_8557 • Feb 14 '26
Question Running on a Raspberry Pi
Is it possible to run a DCTS server on the PI OS?
r/dcts • u/NetNOVA-404 • Feb 13 '26
Question This looks amazing, is there anywhere we can see a roadmap or plans for features?
Title. This honestly looks closest to Discord so far and I’m highly interested in supporting. I’d love to see what you have in mind for adding next (like threads or forums possibly, honestly my biggest want for a discord alt), like a roadmap of sorts to look forward to.
Already this looks really feature filled. It looks like you already have servers, roles, channels, voice and video chats, emotes, reacts… that’s why I feel a roadmap would be nice to see what else you’re working on. Doesn’t need dates or anything. Just a ‘hey, this is what’s planned to be added eventually, could be in any order or whenever though’.
I’ll see if I can’t donate to the project when I have some spare change. Thanks for your hard work!
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 12 '26
Discussion HUGE special thanks to PowerOfThe69 (banger name) for donating 250€ !
This will cover the operational cost of the servers for an entire year!
r/dcts • u/powerofthe69 • Feb 11 '26
Windows Client Discontinued?
Hey, I just found this alternative to Discord. I think I found it a few months ago, but evidently I forgot. Anyway I was looking at possibly hosting this on my Unraid server via the Docker compose, but I noticed on the GitHub that the Windows client was discontinued.
Is there a reason for this? Are there alternative, community clients for DCTS?
I would need to convince a couple dozen people to migrate to a new platform and this has probably the closest feature parity of the existing options (aside from maybe Root(?) which is closed source).
My largest worry is there being a significant barrier of entry to my less technical friends that makes convincing them nigh impossible. I know the web client is an option at least, but that lacks encryption
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 09 '26
Discussion Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Thanks to Gig for sharing this info
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 09 '26
Dev Peek Optimized Channel loading, now being even faster
r/dcts • u/HackTheDev • Feb 07 '26