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Hear me out.

We fork Mumble server. We change the chat to be IRC. We use Obsidian IRC (web irc clone of discord) as the client. IRCv3 SASL EXTERNAL will let us auth the user using the same key identity mumble uses. Convert the Obsidian web to Tauri for cross platform desktop app.

That's it. Self-hosted Discord, now just improve the UI and invite people to rewrite in Rust and add storage backends for the chat history and nobody needs Discord ever again.

https://github.com/ObsidianIRC/ObsidianIRC

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Kirby

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@feld the call quality of discords calls isn't even close when compared to mumble. with mumbles echoey hell unless you know to configure noise cancelling, random n number of second delays with 50 - 80 ping, hell I've even had problems getting mics recognized on arm macs, it just isn't pleasant if you're not prepared for unexpected issues to arise at basically any time. aaaagh
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feld

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@mcg it has never left my brain. It keeps coming back up. Mumble, regardless of what people say, is perfect for this. The client just needs polish because the devs are not desktop/frontend folks. Everything people want is already there, we just need to make it pretty and make a web client work too
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feld

feld

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@mcg @Nimbius666 worse, it's a huge liability to host it because there's no such thing as "deleting" a message. They always exist forever because of the blockchain design. So if someone joins a room on your server with another one that's hosting illegal materials, the server syncs the entire history of all that content and now your server is poisoned forever
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feld

feld

@feld@friedcheese.us remote
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Hear me out.

We fork Mumble server. We change the chat to be IRC. We use Obsidian IRC (web irc clone of discord) as the client. IRCv3 SASL EXTERNAL will let us auth the user using the same key identity mumble uses. Convert the Obsidian web to Tauri for cross platform desktop app.

That's it. Self-hosted Discord, now just improve the UI and invite people to rewrite in Rust and add storage backends for the chat history and nobody needs Discord ever again.

https://github.com/ObsidianIRC/ObsidianIRC
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