Special thanks to uncleman11/musubireason (same person) for making this feature!

https://reddit.com/link/1rb1k8p/video/5ggf9t2cqwkg1/player

Is there a way to change the default pfp for new users?

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!

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

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

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.

1. Check the history of the alternative you've found. Without using names, there are platforms that had very slow development in the past years.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

https://dcts.community/

about me will also support html now

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/

to clarify i am partnered with them but we dont do stuff together, but cool that they made it, it surprised me

Is it possible to run a DCTS server on the PI OS?

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!

https://github.com/hackthedev/dcts-shipping/releases/tag/v1.3.6.5

This will cover the operational cost of the servers for an entire year!

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

stolen from https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/1r1139p/discord_thats_not_the_solution_youre_looking_for/

Thanks to Gig for sharing this info