[ergot_vacation]

Performance is more important that cross-platform support. If a user has money to feed more and more and more resources into a gluttonous, hideously inefficient web browser masquerading as a program, they have enough money to get on the platform everyone else is on.

Discord is an obscene drain on resources. That's the problem that's easy to solve: just stop with the bad programming choices.

That said, I didn't realize at first that Revolt is in fact meant to be a REPLACEMENT top to bottom, and not just a rogue Discord client like Ripcord. You're hawking it on the basis of privacy, rather than speed (since it obviously won't be much better there). But the privacy angle is laughable from the start. Do we run our own servers? It's not clear to me from reading the site. You talk about "creating" servers, but Discord users "create" servers as well: on Discord's hardware. If Revolt genuinely allows for the creation of independant servers, with no control or access by the Revolt devs, that is at least something. If not, I don't see the point.

[eropple]

> Performance is more important that cross-platform support.

You have to be where the people are to make it worth anyone's time to complain about performance.

[nicoburns]

> Do we run our own servers? No, you run them?

The backend and the clients are both open source, so I think the idea is that people do run their own servers. There's certainly nothing stopping you. I assume the hosted server is just for convenience and/or demo purposes.

[auxym]

Not very familiar with Discord, but from what I understand it seems everyone runs their own server? Like every game/topic/etc community has their own server?

[nicoburns]

I think a "server" on discord is more like a "organisation" on slack than an actual server. i.e. it's a tenant partition on a multi-tenant centrally hosted system.

[rektide]

> Performance is more important that cross-platform support

telling the author what their priorities need to be... nice.