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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It broke 100,000 users and growing. The $300,000 the dev raised with his backer Kickstarter thing really is going to get stretched thin really quick with how fast it's growing.

He's already had to roll out more servers a few times to my understandings too. Well, self-hosting is currently a thing. It's still under active development in that really needs to finish up quick to help offload some of the load.

Honestly, once the mobile app is finished and the self-hosting is more stable, it's basically going to be like the old days of TeamSpeak 3 s when everyone actually liked it.

But with all the modern conveniences and benefits of discord.

It is the only thing currently going around. That's actually trying to be a replacement for discord. Keyword replacement not alternative.

Like xmpp is an alternative, not a replacement.