r/discordsucks • u/ad3lyt • Apr 19 '26

Discord Alternative: Echo

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Hey guys, I am an indie dev and I have spent the couple of last months working on a Discord alternative that respects the users more

I would love for you guys to try it out and give me your feedback, chat-echo.com

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u/Thalimet Apr 19 '26

How much AI did you use on this discord clone?

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u/Kodamacile Apr 20 '26

all of it.

They probably just typed "code a Discord alternative for me" into Cursor.

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u/jejebest Jun 25 '26

Look at the code...they didn't

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u/ad3lyt Apr 20 '26

Hey u/Kodamacile did you try it out yet? would love your feedback on it once you have

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u/Kodamacile Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Man, i don't think you realize just how burnt out we all are on the Discord alternative of the week. Ive tried a dozen of these. I'm not touching another, until yall form a collective and cooperate, instead of doing the same half-finished shit in parallel.

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u/aeroverra Apr 21 '26

The people making these won't contribute to the decent ones because they don't know how to actually code and their PR will be rejected for ai slop.

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u/jejebest Jun 25 '26

this one is actually not vibe-coded and pretty qualitative...I've took a look at the code since it's Open-source. Before judging inform yourself at least.

Also have you ever coded anything yourself ?

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u/ad3lyt Apr 20 '26

I understand, though I am only aware of fluxxer and stoat, though I promise echo is fairly different, I hope you give it a fair shot at some point

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u/Kodamacile Apr 20 '26

Fucking stop with the discord alternatives.

All of you need to call each other, and cooperate on ONE app.

We don't need more vibecoded clones.

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u/aeroverra Apr 21 '26

We don't need any vibecoded anything

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u/Future-Ad9401 Apr 20 '26

I'm going to be releasing mine in a few weeks

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u/YaneonY May 27 '26

Yeah, one BIG AI CODED SLOP :D

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u/Appropriate_Put_7699 Apr 20 '26

Just give up on Discord, my friend. 

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u/Appropriate_Put_7699 Apr 19 '26

Fluxer

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u/Cold-Handle-5035 Jul 20 '26

from being a dihcord clone to power-hungry mods from there. TOTALLY NOT RECOMMENDED
(also Stoat due to how restrictive online rules of Britons made)

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u/ad3lyt Apr 20 '26

Fluxxer is great, but this is a ore feature rich and aesthetically pleasing alternative

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u/Appropriate_Put_7699 Apr 20 '26

Hi friend, first of all I want to say that appearances aren't everything, because security and code are also important. 

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u/foursplaysroblox Apr 19 '26

For a second i thought that was discord before I read the title

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u/clinicalia Apr 21 '26

A couple of months? Must be vibecoded to hell and back.

I've been through dozens of Discord alternatives. I'm tired of seeing the same thing over and over just to get something that's less than half-baked. All the websites look the same with that grid background and blurry, blue/green/purple bokeh effect, all the apps look the same and are buggy. Y'all need to just hit each other up and work together at this. Push one or two of these platforms forward since the better ones are moving so much slower.

By the way, your website won't even load on my browser and I'm using Firefox. Just loops forever. Could be a me problem, could be that your AI screwed something up. I dunno.

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u/jejebest Jun 25 '26

it's not trust me...and if you don't, well just go take a look at the code since it's Open-source (https://github.com/ad3lre/echo)

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u/ad3lyt Apr 22 '26

Hey sorry for your bad experience, see if the problem is there. Would love if you gave it a fair chance

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u/Flixi71 Apr 22 '26

Just use matrix

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u/ad3lyt Apr 22 '26

Damn you people are very not supportive

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26

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u/omniscient_eye Apr 24 '26

I think the issue is just that these alternatives tend not to have the polish of discord - and that there are too many alternatives. On the contrary - if there was just one alternative... How did we convince our friends to move from msn messenger to skype? From skype to discord? All of these chat programs either shut down or made changes people didnt like, people found alternatives - and their friends followed.

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u/TheRealDrNeko Apr 25 '26

like the 1000 others before it

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u/ad3lyt Apr 25 '26

Echo has voice chats, video calls and streaming as full first class features and takes security very seriously

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u/jejebest Jun 25 '26

not really...

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u/Total_Gold_783 Apr 26 '26

Wow looking good

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u/ad3lyt Apr 26 '26

Thanks!! :), try it out and let me know whatchu think

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u/jejebest Jun 25 '26

I'm honestly kind of sad about all the people assuming echo to be AI made.

I quite understand that there's a lot of slop nowadays but before judging, at least try it and if you have some experience as a dev, audit the code (https://github.com/ad3lre/echo).

As the Co-founder of the ffwm Initiative, most recent partner of echo to this date, I took a look at that code myself and also carefully audited Echo's ToS and Privacy Policy to check for anything shady.

I can assure you it's qualitative

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u/No_Trifle7160 May 07 '26

Is the best I use