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Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago by briffy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Since Discord announced they're going to help Petie T collect selfies of us all I've been working on a self hosted alternative mostly for my mates. I had five goals in mind when I started this:

  • Text Channels
  • Voice channels
  • Screen Sharing
  • End to end encrypted DMs
  • Able to run on pretty much any web hosting

I've reached that point now and figured why not slap the GPL on it and send it out into the wild.

I'm sure there'll be lots of bugs and I don't think it will scale well. I never set out to make something that would grow into a behemoth that's used for customer support and all sorts of shit.

The goal was to make something that covers that trifecta of text/voice/screensharing, without relying on P2P connectivity, and able to do it well for small groups of people.

There are more features I have in mind if it gets any interest:

  • Rate limiting on backend requests
  • Quasar app with the ability to add more than one server (the frontend is already built in Quasar and I started writing some code for it but I'm mostly building this for myself + friends where I host my own instance so I've not given it much attention)

So yeah, I'm not a professional dev, this is a hobby for me. Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Has the problem of having Discord in the name. Also Harmony is pretty much opposite of Discord. Good name.

[–] briffy@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It was originally going to be Entropy (there might actually still be references to that in the code) but 3 seconds in Google turned up a decentralised messaging app called that so went with a name change. Now it just sounds like an early internet dating site.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

A little bit, but it's probably okay. Hope it takes off!

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Now it just sounds like an early internet dating site.

Also a failed cryptocurrency.

[–] thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's true, maybe "Yet Another Discourse Alternative"? Discussion Alternative? I just like the idea of a chat platform whose acronym is YADA.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Discourse is already a platform, too 😅

YADA is a funny acronym though.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 4 months ago

I'd you just call it YADA without it being an acronym...