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		esafak 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord It's been in development for five years. https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/tags?after=0.2.6

WhyNotHugo 4 months ago | [–]

Are they using exiting protocols and networks? Or is it entirely bespoke protocols?

remram 4 months ago | | [–]

Looks like their own protocol: https://developers.revolt.chat/developers/events/protocol.ht...

ryebrd 4 months ago | [–]

The last release was 3 weeks ago (https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/releases), and it looks like they changed their tag formats to YYYYMMDD-X. https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/tags?before=0.2.6

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