<a href="https://github.com/StrafeChat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/StrafeChat</a><p>There’s a GitHub but it was all the way at the bottom of the page behind a tiny icon in a group of other socials. At least on mobile it was.
Links to docs, resources, GitHub is non existent. Also no screenshots. Waste of time.
Previous alternatives for discord never included video, so they were no alternatives. So: great to see this!<p>Nitpick: the bottom row on the front page shows a discord link, but not their own strafe link. I hope they can add this because of dogfooding.
I also want to highlight Chatto here: <a href="https://chatto.run/" rel="nofollow">https://chatto.run/</a>
Very lightweight and self-hostable. Not e2ee, though.
Great project, glad to see something like this!<p>Also all links under the resources heading are broken.
You need to register to use it? Disappointing.
Means "punishment" in german, weird name.
And "discord" means "disagreement", "lack of harmony", "arguments" in English. Even weirder name for a chat application in an even more commonly used language.<p>"Slack" associates pretty strongly with "slack off" (get no work done) too, so that one's also strange.<p>I think "Zulip" has the best naming of all these.
I figured Slack referred to slack in task time estimation i.e. the amount of extra time allowed in a task. Collaborating on Slack would count towards that time.
The only explanation I can offer for “Slack” is that its founders and top brass have been adherents of the “parody religion” Church of the SubGenius, and have successfully interposed themselves into the everyday business machinations of a wide swath of Western businesses.<p>Meanwhile, “Discord” wouldn’t surprise me if it were a product of the Discordians themselves, a similarly disorganized “parody religion”.
> “parody religion” Church of the SubGenius<p>Not a parody religion at all. It's very real.
Slack is also allowance in budgets (time, finance, materials) to allow for unplanned pressures, demands or constraints.
Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Conversations and Knowledge. Prior to that, it was going to be "linefeed".
"<i>Discord becomes strife cause that means kinda the same thing, strife becomes strafe cause that's a gamer term</i>"<p>is the completely german-less train-of-thought I could imagine leading to this name
No reaction emojis?
Claims to be done right, vibecoded bs from last week that can't even get the links on their page right, who cares
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Horrible idea, Discord is an app for videogames, which means it's an app for kids.<p>E2E is just not appropriate for handling childrens' messaging.
Can you elaborate on why E2E encryption is not "appropriate for childrens' messaging"? Does this imply that we should be able to surveil what children say to each other, or..?
> Discord is an app for videogames<p>Children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised.
Games are also played by adults.
Discord is just a communication platform that isn't inherently tied to gaming.
I had no clue videogames were for kids, silly me. I'd better uninstall Steam right now, and move to Microsoft Teams to talk to my friends while I'm at it.
Games aren't just for kids. Furthermore, children also have a right to privacy and should be protected, especially from the big tech companies.
This post genuinely made me laugh in anticipation of the replies it'd trigger, have an upvote friend