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huh???????????????

Seattle has a fucking vampire problem

holy shit fluxer is nearly at 100k users :3

🧵 Regarding Discord alternatives.

The amount of misinformation, fear and things taken out of context is fucking insane right now.

1/8

fluxer so good that the founder/lead dev fixed a DoS vuln in 30min

1. public beta solo dev (backend is also being refactored)
2. that's a good thing :3

jfc 😭

i could build a better search feature by running fucking sanitized regex queries on the db lol

WJS search is ass lmao

I also hate that it's made in fucking JavaScript

they are coming to perth :3
was announced in the beginning of January and I'm seeing them on the 8th of March with my wife!!!

good :)

im more than happy to fuel the revolt/stoat hate train :3

for more context to why i hate stoat, please see this twitter thread and the associated discord chat logs: fxtwitter.com/cybercatb0y/...

currently, the fluxer refactor now has more features than stoat (and feature parity). fluxer is the clear winner when it comes to literally everything, and there's a competent founder behind fluxer, while insert is (pretty much) screwing up every possible move and being a jackass.

stoat is not a one-person project (see screenshot).

there have only been 2 contributors so far to fluxer (see other screenshot)

stoat has had hundreds of contributors over the past 5+ years (incl myself, even though it was a small patch)

it's also insane that fluxer has more features than stoat, even though fluxer has only one developer and left the private beta a few months ago (which started in 2023 iirc)

i also didn't include the other repositories in stoatchat, since they're all less than 1k stars and have a super high chance of being duplicate users when compared to the backend repo. stoat's stars are backported from the old revoltchat repo, since the repos were moved and not copied

LMAO fluxer has over taken stoat in github repository stars

fluxer: 3k
stoat: 2.6k

insane for a repo that's <2 months old and a project that's nearly as old as stoat

i think this is more than enough to confirm that fluxer is the stoat/revolt killer

Meanwhile stoat needs to rewrite everything because they've hit architectural limits that insert has known about for years

I have barely had any issues with stability so I don't know what you're talking about. The only thing that isn't returning is Fluxer HQ

The big update is still being worked on and the founder has probably had fuck all sheep judging by their messages

could've had secrets/tokens in the codebase. could've also had crap that they didn't want in the git history. also they could've added the license wayyy later on in development, so all previous code is technically not under MIT. there's a lot of reasons to squash the history of a project to go open-source. I did that :p

Also the current source code is available. Commit history was squashed since it was being worked on in a private repo
github.com/fluxerapp/fl...

Actually people can write that much code in the span of 5 years. The discord alternatives (stoat) are behind because of laziness, mismanagement, and drama.

Writing that much code in 3 years is more than possible. I personally have written multiple large-scale applications since 2023

it's one fucking developer

the refactor (which is what hampus is working on) resolves a lot of performance issues. federation is also actively being worked on.

you need to remember that this project has only been publicly available for <1 month and has been a side project/self-funded since 2023

this isn't vibecoded

stoat/revolt is more vibecoded.

fluxer has been in development since 2023 and it's better than all the alts rn

*correction. 'discord.rs' is the filename and i mistook it for the crate.

either way, if you look at the file, all it's doing is making a discord-compatible webhook request

stoat also (at least used to) reference "guilds"

also the code that's mentioned for the 'discord.rs' crate is for sending discord-compatible webhooks.
github.com/fluxerapp/fl...

(credit to Pascal Ampertail in the fluxer testers server for finding this. please do your own research in the future)

that's super weird. i think i also had that issue for a while? but idr how i fixed it

the only thing I have installed that does anything for thumbnails is xnviewmp, so it could be related to that?? idk :p

does anyone else have that issue with windows where thumbnail generation uses so much memory that it crashes your computer if you don't restart explorer in time?

i've had this issue for like the past 6+ years on windows 10 across multiple machines & installs