Until the bad press dies down. Fuck'em.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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Delays…
Lol, already deleted my account.
They can get fucked.
Same here. Deleted and not going back.
Yep. Its wasn’t even a question
Delays
not cancels, rolls back, stops or retracts. Delay is just doing something later than expected. This will not bring people back or change their minds.
Absolutely
Even if it was "cancel" that would just be a slightly longer delay.
That's just gives Fluxer more time to prepare for the switch 👍
That's what my community is doing. We're going to move to Matrix just to be rid of Discord and then seeing what we want to do next.
Matrix seems to be filling the role of discord for me. I’ve noticed element’s client is lighter on system resources then discord
Programmers with thigh-high striped socks should still take one for the team and work on Fluxer. Seriously!
Delaying in hopes that people forget
They're delaying it by six months. They're banking on this blowing over by then. Fuck discord.
Let's hope this gives competitors more time to get things setup well.
Was about to say this, how nice of discord to give people time to migrate to another service
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The only credible alternative to discord right now that is also free and open source and not completely reliant on venture capital and traditional economics in general is Fluxer.app - The app in itself is extremely promising and provides an almost 1:1 clone to discord with a few nice additions such as federation (which is still not available but in course of making). Unfortunately it is still under maintenance right now but I am willing to wait a little to be able to use something that respects me as a user and human being instead of being milked to death for my data to be taken by big evil corps who're actively working to suppress our freedom. It is the only financially sustainable and therefore credible FLOSS alternative to Discord right now. Also, about the controversies of the CLA, Hampus (dev of Fluxer) has completely removed it stating that it was just a loophole to use if fluxer didn't take off in the open source community. If course Fluxer eventually did take off and of course the CLA got removed
I won't delete my discord account because sometimes I also wanna chat with friends who still play on console but I won't chat on it again and I will definitely wipe out all of my chat history and leave all servers I've been, sooner or later
I wiped all messages too, because it feels good, but in reality I think you actually don't need to bother as they have already scraped everything and all it does is that other users won't see them.
Well of course discord users are pissed off they have to upload their ID. Now their discord kittens will know how old they actually are.
Alright, stoat or revolt or anyone else, you've got 6 months. I'll move my group over in 6 months and donate to the best solution. Thanks everyone for pushing back against discord, to the indie devs who are working on alternatives, and to the self-hosting community for making it possible for me to even plan to move off of discord.
And why not to give Matrix a chance? Stoat (named Revolt before), Fluxer or anything else that is centralised is going to end up doing the same.
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Removed link to avoid perpetuating vibe coded software
what was it?
Sharkord an alternative to discord but I obviously don't recommend it
This is (extremely obvious) vibe coded. Also client side validation for permissions and other security issues
Is it really? I actually didn't know, I'm not fluent when it comes to programming, thank you for letting me know.
Can you fill me in on the things that would tip me off in the future?
This is fantastic news! Not because I actually give a shit about sticking with Discord after getting slapped in the face with this insulting age verification nonsense, but because Discord has basically no competition and 6 months will be plenty of time for a real contender to emerge in time for them to shoot themselves in the foot again.
I don't think Discord actually appreciates how much market share is going to slip away from them in the next 6 months. They were probably better off going through with their clandestine spying plan now while some people might be complacent enough to just comply and provide their ID to get handed over to the fucking Feds.
Oh, cool, I definitely trust them again. 🙄
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