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- All content is searchable by search engines (via forum mode), and is easily accessible without registering an account.
- Phone number needed - High RAM usage (up to 3GB+), especially with lots of channels and media - No usernames (paid feature to register without a phone number) - Doesn't work well with complex communities (channels, roles etc) - Smartphone needed to create an account (ios/android), need an Android VM to create an account using a desktop computer - Wastes storage (gigabytes used by old cached videos etc) - Bad at code blocks - Buggy heavy client (updates, photos/videos often not loading), although definitely not as heavy as the alternatives below - The server is not open source - The code of the official clients is not immediately released - Stickers are hard to pick (mouse, short history, no text shortcuts like :pogchamp: etc) - A very low quality of video calls, unreliable audio calls with delays (no p2p) - Not federated
- The server is not open source - The official client is not open source - Very poor moderation tools: no way to select/delete multiple messages, no logging etc - No way to move messages between channels (for example to move offtopic discussions to an appropriate channel) - The installable desktop client does sketchy stuff with your computer data - Bad towards third party clients - All data belongs to Discord/data mining - Very heavy, bloated, slow - Bad spam protection by default, need to use third party bots which are often unreliable - Not federated - No secret chats - Bad search: slow and not exact (can't search for a substring for example)
- Signal requires a phone number, this is not private and not safe - Signal is openly against third party clients. - The client is very heavy and weighs 600+ MB:
- Hard to set up - Lots of spam - Bad performance - Cannot be set up like a Discord server (no channels)
https://volt.im/api/me https://volt.im/api/servers https://volt.im/api/servers/13 https://volt.im/api/servers/13/chats https://volt.im/api/chats/10/messages https://volt.im/api/me/chats (DMs) https://volt.im/api/allchats (all user chats in bulk, for optimizing fetching of chats) POST https://volt.im/api/chats/[chat_id]/messages` { "text":"hello" } (JSON)Use the "token" cookie for authentication