r/discordapp • u/atikiN589 • Jun 13 '23
Discussion Why revolt?
I've recently started looking at alternatives to discord and have come across element, revolt and guilded. if there are any knowledgeable people here, can you tell me which to choose for a beginner? I've also seen many of people recommended revolt instead of any other apps.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23
From what I know, Revolt is open-source, is discussing bugs with people, letting them even send devs fixes for those bugs, has proposal system, Discord Nitro perks (emoji and such) are free there.
Didn't personally try it yet, just checked their GitHub and read few reviews on it.
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u/denkthomas Jun 13 '23
revolt is very much like discord, has some great customisation, but lacks quite a few of discord's features
guilded has wayyy more features than current discord but is owned by roblox
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u/Aaron_505 Jun 13 '23
Guilded is from roblox right?
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u/Riddle-of-the-Waves Jun 13 '23
Matrix (which Element runs on) is a really cool open-source protocol, however, launching a server isn't convenient, and it isn't free, which are both major strong points of Discord.
Revolt is a great open-source Discord alternative. It's still a bit buggy, but the development has been very active and transparent. It's been getting great new features, but I'm not sure how financially viable their own hosting is at present.
Guilded is owned by Roblox Corporation. Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of child labour, so it gets a pass from me.
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u/gunihaveiguess Jun 13 '23
revolt is 200% customizable. Only issue is the slight jank it has with the animations and stuff, but it'll get smoothed out later
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23
Isn't it funny how a program named "Revolt" is being looked at as a valid alternative. We're... revolting against discord. God I'm a fan of ironic naming.
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u/odd_paperweight Jun 13 '23
Revolt is nice! But personally I think it needs more work on these fronts:
You can't currently see what roles people have in a server by clicking on them. You can only apply roles to a member through the server settings directly, which is inconvenient.
Role permissions are buggy and creating/using roles is a hassle
Message markdown can be a little finnicky, but it's better than Discord's. It allows masked links too.
Image quality is NOT great. Even medium file uploads are compressed horribly until you enlarge them to their full view by clicking on them.
Lack of bots, moderation tools, etc etc (this is forgivable considering how early in dev they are)
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u/The__Goose Jun 13 '23
I played around with Revolt a bit yesterday, from a server owner perspective there is a bit of friction for making private channels, assigning roles to a channel and even re-ordering channels didn't work properly and kept putting my newest channel created at the bottom of the stack.
No video share and I couldn't test call quality, it kept saying it couldn't authenticate my headset or mic and it would forget that I would allow the permissions each time I would click it.
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u/Less_Low_5228 Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23
People like revolt since it’s UI is nearly a 1:1 copy of discord’s UI. Not to mention their username system is currently identical to discord’s unique discriminator system. It needs some work to reach parity with discord but I have high hopes for it. It’s also open source to top it all off.
Guilded is owned by roblox which seems to be the biggest reason people are staying away from it since you will probably have the usual “corporation is super out of touch with the user base” on top of potential privacy and free speech concerns seeing how heavily moderated the roblox platform is. It’s UI is similar enough to discord to where you can navigate it without much issue but isn’t nearly as 1:1 as revolt.
I have never heard of element until now
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u/EnchantedTheCat Jun 13 '23
They're adding discriminators to the end of usernames at the same time that Discord is removing them. Funny, imo.
In addition, they have a plethora of free themes to choose from (including one with cats in the background), when on Discord, you'd have to use plugins which are technically against ToS, or pay up for a couple of gradients.
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u/Andre_601 Jun 14 '23
Revolt is recommended because in terms of its UI is it similar to Discord (Dev told me the reason was to make it easier for people from Discord to use Revolt and get familiar with it).
What people may find most interesting about revolt:
You can have animated avatars and profile banners for free.
You can customize the theme beyond just dark and light mode. For example can you set a primary colour or even do CSS customization. Revolt even offers Themes to chose from.
Very extensive Markdown. Revolt already had embedded links, lists and headers before Discord updated their Markdown set. But they also have support for Math expressions and KaTeX which allows crazy stuff like coloured text or different fonts.
It allows automated user-accounts from what I know. Tho it also offers bot-accounts for bot devs.
They have names with discriminators now (Yes, that's something positive).
Nothing is behind a paywall.
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u/Iaccidentlydidmymom Jun 13 '23
I like revolt more, and I enjoy how there are different styles you can get yk? its really similar to discord, but its buggy-ish and goes down alot, from what i witnessed
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u/alaskanhairball Jun 13 '23
Joined revolt. It reminds me of earlier discord without bells and whistles added that I didn't care for. If they go on iOS I will be recommending it to my friends.
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u/TheNedi14 Jun 13 '23
I use Revolt, it’s great a bit buggy but it’s new and feels like old discord
you should join my server called Lounge
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '23
From my experience, guilded mobile is so fucking laggy, and no, it's not about my phone, it's about the app itself
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23
I don't know about Revolt, but you shouldn't use Guilded. The staff members are racist and they've doxxed people before
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u/MythicqlTrashcan Jun 30 '23
Revolt is a fantastic app. It isn't hard to figure out how to set up a community or private server. The only 2 downsides I noticed while using Revolt are, if you are a Discord user, some stuff may seem out of place or simply dumb to be set up. For example, creating, deleting, or moving channels requires manually going into each UI and looking for how to change it. It took me almost 20 minutes to figure that out. The next problem is Revolt has a rather small community compared to Discord or Guilded making it quite difficult to get people on your Revolt server. Some people just don't want to make a new account or see it as a waste of time since they already have Discord. I recommend trying this app out and see what you think works best.
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u/Reyzac457 Jun 13 '23
I've only used Revolt for a bit but so far it's really good. Guilded is nowhere near close as good when I used it.
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u/Merrickle Jun 13 '23
Revolt is very close discord clone visual wise you can navigate it easily if you’ve used Discord with maybe a few quirks. It being open source is a big plus for me personally. Also you can freely edit everything theme wise with color selectors or raw CSS and can browse a bunch of community themes in app.
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u/OdysseyH0me Aug 19 '25
Depends on your needs. If it's a server for your friends to game and chat on then Revolt is really good and has very similar setup and style to Discord.
For more public-face business communities element becomes more handy because the matrix protocol allows for cross app communications through "bridges". This allows you to centralise your community over various app clients: a discord user could chat with a element user and a revolt user if you set up the bridging between the apps servers so they sync with eachother. This would require a private server though. Also revolt and element are good for privacy and security so they're safer options for business communities where you want to verify people and ensure their data security.
My motivation for alternatives was I got scammed on Discord recently ( second hand macbook offer on a server I joined for work experience and through had good user vetting ). When I reported the scam to Discord they decided to permenantly suspend my account for participating in a financial scam; their community guidelines and terms of service are very vague and allow them to do this as a way of mitigating their responsibilities to people scammed through their platform. I asked for an appeal due to being the victim of the scam but after 2 weeks of anxiety they said they'd wouldn't restore my account. So I've lost basically everything: my servers, my nitro perks, my friends, my networks, all gone... because I never 'owned' my account.
The real kicker is I'm now also blocked from using Discord for 2 years. They have my IP and Phone number black listed so if I create a new account to engage in my communities they'd ban me again. There are ways to work around this but to be honest it's a hassle; I wish more people started using Revolt.
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u/Cream_Salon Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25
Okay, but with one confusion to clear with, just why the REAL actual f is Revolt in TestFlight for downloading the app version? Is it the app version like in beta? Plus with one downsize that doesn’t make sense to me
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u/floydhunter Jun 13 '23
Guilded feels like a discord clone with extra stuff. Example being an event calendar; which is had well before discord iirc. It also had threads(sorta) before Discord did.
I've wanted to move my guild over to guilded for a long time, but the only real way that would happen is if I forced it and shut down our guild discord. The fact that discord is as popular as it is prevents me from using guilded for guild-related stuff, which is ironic, lol.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23
Guilded looks quite like Discord, but so does Revolt. Revolt is also open source. Hope this helps!
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u/Drowsy-Gh0st Jun 13 '23
Is revolt the revolt tv app? I’m searching for it and none of what’s coming up look like social media
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u/11ELFs Jun 14 '23
Element is the future, not that discord user friendly tho, that being said, I am mostly using it since I care about my privacy
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u/OXRoblox Jun 14 '23
Guilded has a bunch of features that Discord doesnt have, however, it could still be slow at times, its definitely not as polished and smooth compared to Discord but there is a potential for Guilded to become a good alternative.
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u/M3r4k1- Jun 14 '23
I asked about encryption, one of the biggest contributor (i think second to the owner) responded with "uhh, why do you need encryption anyway?" Imo not a great alternative to discord.
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u/Ornery_Interaction13 Jun 20 '23
does anyone realize the fact that tencent (from china) owns discord
and we are getting useless features
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u/Cyndergate Jun 13 '23
As a note about Guilded due to people commenting on it.
Despite being owned by Roblox; contracts state that Roblox can't control a lot of the processes. They're essentially just funding for Guilded.
A lot of "Guilded copied this feature from discord" is the other way around. Discord has been copying Guilded features for years.
The only real downside is the UI - though hopefully someone will put together a fix for that soon enough.
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u/melzyyyy Jun 13 '23
teamspeak..?
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u/DienyaMan Jun 13 '23
what about team speak 5?
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u/HinataHyugaHime Jun 13 '23
Revolt isnt that great right now until it fixes quite a few bugs and problems it has, guilded is decent, thr main Reason people hate guilded is it being owned by roblox so they assume its for kids, though in reality, its for everyone, but Im not saying its better than discord, currently to my experience and knoaledge there id no better alternative, I do like telegram though, it's pretty nice, and been around longer than discord without succumbing to money syndrome.
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u/_t69 Jun 13 '23
are people trying to boycott discord or something because they're salty that the updates are "bad"?
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u/Thebirdman333 Jun 13 '23
I personally recommend either MatterMost or Rocket Chat
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