r/DiscordAlternatives

Hi y'all,

We are a team of two devs (both around 10 years of experience) who somehow stumbled into creating an alternative for discord.

Why: We are actually building a big MMO game and for this we had to build a voice engine. This POC has quickly turned into our everyday communication "hub" and we're now expanding it to support many use cases discord supports, merely because we're sick and tired of the way discord handles our data.

What we can already do: We support guilds, channels and text based messages. Thats the easy part 😄.

Additionally were supporting real time voice communications via WebRTC and cloudflare's SFU edge network. Quite cool tech tbh! The whole client runs on top of tauri (cross plattform js framework) where we can build the client in angular (don't judge me, I'm influenced heavily by enterprise software) and have a small part of the code running in rust. That includes mainly the stream sourcing code (like voice, screen share, webcam, you name it). The whole guild (will) come with a whole bunch of mod tools to make everyones live easier. Currently we have a basic permission system implemented, but we'll expand on this functionality.

Our plan for it: Tbh, currently we're primarely looking if this is something someone wants and thats the whole reason i'm posting here. My dream goal would be, to get this out and make a bit of money on that to cross fund our game development.

For the opensource and self host fans: Once we have a stable code base and a stable client with most of the functionality implemented, we're happily moving this to be source available and thus self hostable. No decision yet on going full on open source with it, but we can consider it. Altough I have to admit that self hosting will be a technical challenge at least in the beginning, there are around 5 microservices running with redis, postgres, scylla and rabbitmq.

Anyway, feedback welcome!

PS: As the question will come up, yes we have used AI. Altough to clarify, the only "vibe coded" part of the product is the ui layer of the client. We're both backend devs, and admittely the AI ui looks better than what I could have ever crafted. 😃

Hey,

So I got fed up with where Discord was heading and just... started building something.

That was December 2024. It's now May 2026. We went from an idea to public beta in a year and I'm genuinely shocked we got here this fast.

https://preview.redd.it/lksbgnybe80h1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=09ac286ec02d366f6790460db9098c1f7745e9e8

Here's what Tavrn actually is:

Servers, channels, voice/video calls, DMs, custom emojis, moderation tools, the whole thing. But built from the ground up with privacy actually in mind, not as a marketing line, as a genuine product decision.

No face scans. No ID uploads. No behavioral AI running in the background deciding if you're an adult. No data selling. Ever.

What makes us different:

• Free tier is fully functional and we're never changing that
• Optional premium (Tavrn Cocoa, $4.99/month) for extras like GIF avatars, HD uploads, bigger calls
• We've been in public beta since February 2026 and have shipped constantly since
• One person building this (yes really)
• Your feedback actually changes things

What we're still working on:

• Native mobile apps (PWA works great for now)
• More integrations
• Expanding bot/developer tools

I'm not gonna pretend Tavrn is perfect. Things break. But we fix them fast and we're building in public which means you can actually watch this thing grow in real time.

Over a year of active development, 30+ builds shipped, and we're just getting started.

If you're genuinely looking for a Discord alternative, come check it out.

tavrn.top 🧡

Also feel free to check our history and fact-check me using our roadmap and blog site: blog.tavrn.top

Happy to answer literally anything in the comments, including hard questions about missing features, the roadmap, or why I thought building a chat platform alone was a good idea (it wasn't but here we are)

Hi everyone, we’re the team building Nexoria, a Discord alternative focused on privacy, better organization, and built-in community tools.

A big feature we recently added is subservers, similar in spirit to Guilded’s old server-group system. A main server can contain multiple subservers, and each subserver has its own channels, tools, permissions, and organization while still staying under the same larger community.

Nexoria also includes:

• Encrypted servers
• Text channels
• Calls
• Screenshare
• Music sharing / native music bot features
• Public servers for discovery
• Subservers for better organization
• Built-in tools so communities do not need to rely as heavily on bots

We started with a strong focus on TTRPG communities, so Nexoria also has built-in features like:

• Dice rolling
• Shared session notes
• Drawable maps
• D&D-style character sheets
• Campaign organization tools

The goal is not just to clone Discord, but to build something more organized and useful for communities that need more than endless categories, channels, and bots.

We’re still early and actively building based on feedback, so we’d genuinely like to hear from people who have tried Discord alternatives, miss Guilded-style organization, or feel like Discord does not work well for larger or more structured communities.

You can check it out here:

https://nexoria.chat

Happy to answer questions, hear criticism, or get suggestions for what you think a Discord alternative needs to get right.

I think we all were super excited when the first, nice-looking Discord alternatives/clones were popping up when Discord hit us with the Age verification shit. And I think some of them look pretty good, even if AI was involved. However.

This sub is absolutely filled to the brim with shitty, vibecoded hobby projects, we get daily "I build X the next Discord killer with E2E, unlimited streaming, bla bla" ads on them, people just post random changelogs of their apps on here EVEN THOUGH 95% of the people on here don't know shit about your app. Post it on Github or on your Website. Or in your App ffs. where you know - the 5 people who actually use your app may read about changes.

It sucks so much how much creativity got sucked out because everyone now thinks they can become the next Larry Page if they just prompt hard enough. I don't have anything against doing AI-assisted coding but man - it's tough to see how many apps are out there where the whole system logic is unminified with sourcemaps available on the production assets so we can see all endpoints, understand how responses get back from the server and what the client is doing with it 1:1 without any obfuscation, potentially opening you up for attacks - and in the end a few people MAY give their and their friends data over to some random vibecoder who doesn't know bumshit about security or how to store sensitive information in the right way.

So PLEASE. If you think about building yet another Discord killer, come up with a good concept. How about a decentralized system? Maybe try use the Matrix protocol, maybe go self-hosting first with a centralized client/web-app - there are so many options but please stop filling this space with uncreative, vibecoded shovelware that nobody needs.