Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• neshura@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Apparently that’s already in the backend since december, they’re just getting their infrastructure up to snuff before they enable it

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If they enable that and iron out the iOS app, it’d be a surefire migration for my whole crew.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I‘m surprised Stoat is gaining so much traction here. It‘s no open source and will likely go down the same path as Discord if given the chance.

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  • cole@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it is open source github.com/stoatchat/

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    • Zeon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wish their Android version didn’t require Google Play Services. Real bummer.

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• hornedfiend@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t even create an account on Stoat yet. New account confirmation emails take hours to arrive and by the time they do, they are already expired.

  This is not a discord alternative yet and not be for a long time most likely.

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re having issues with their email provider due to the hug of death effect, they did not expect to get so much traffic so fast

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    • hornedfiend@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I understand, but they are losing the train I guess. People are giving up easily when they need a solution fast.

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      • IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Their loss. They have at least a month to migrate, probably more before most users get forced to verify, there is no rush. That and an ad-free hobby-run project like Stoat doesn’t gain anything from a massive user increase unless it correlates to an increase in devs or money.

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