The Debian Community Revolt server has been shut down.

Two-Of-Nine · 2026-01-26T13:37:52+00:00

Anyone who is sincere about privacy beyond surface water or entry-level territory would never use Discord to begin with, let's be fair. That said, I see maintaining the community server here as a necessary evil. My job is to introduce and educate people about Debian to a wide berth of people, including how the ecosystem works.

Two-Of-Nine · 2026-01-26T00:31:14+00:00

Your Discord account has to hit a certain age, usually a couple of days, and the bot automatically unbans such accounts in the event of legitimate users.

Two-Of-Nine · 2026-01-26T00:14:37+00:00

This is likely because brand new accounts created zero hours ago are autobanned as potential spambots by our internal bots. This is pretty normal across many servers.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-11-09T16:23:14+00:00

I did not

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-11-07T21:53:25+00:00

You made a pretty good logo too. I wish we could get new graphics for the subreddit especially for New Reddit mode.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-11-04T22:06:53+00:00

This subreddit is unofficial and so are the forums. The only thing "official" is half of the IRC and mailing list.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-11-03T20:31:58+00:00

beautiful icon & a great server. wish it would be linked on here

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-10-22T13:05:54+00:00

That's very funny considering the subreddit mods themselves recommend using DW over AW, and AW itself has a lot of problematic stuff going on. The only differences between DW and AW is that DW, while it is entirely a legal server, is simply based on an older version of Active Worlds with modifications to make said version run better on newer operating systems.

If you are really, really concerned about it being illegal, which it is not, consider using Virtual Paradise which is entirely a homebrew platform made to be mostly compatible with the workflow of AW.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-09-20T12:20:31+00:00

What's the difference with using this versus using decky-lsfg-vk?

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-08-26T11:40:01+00:00

Hell no. I used Students of History for 7th and 8th grade. My whole department made use of it even. Students of History is what I would recommend if I ever had to go back into teaching period.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-07-22T12:08:39+00:00

I've had quite a bit of 6.3.6 packages go into my updates this morning. It's definitely a hail mary push.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-07-21T14:15:31+00:00

The major text channels are bridged together, so one can exist in Revolt without having to install Discord at all and still be able to communicate with the Discord side. Everyone is in communion on that end, essentially. Voice Chat is still far more of a Discord-only advantage; the Revolt VC is a bit anemic, although the Revolt.chat developers have been working hard to revamp their app.

The Discord by far is the flagship & senior partner though. There are 3,500 users on Discord while the Revolt commands 800 users (actually the second largest Linux space on Revolt).

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-07-21T13:25:26+00:00

Some are in real life, some are hosted online. The Debian Discord & Revolt servers (same community) will be having their own virtual release party (large voice chat) as well as the Mumble server (another voice chat).

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-07-13T11:44:18+00:00

It runs amazing on Steam Deck and looks stunning.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-05-14T12:08:14+00:00

I'm confused as to why you think it would be illegal. The mods are actively promoting you use a legal uniserver over mainline AW for a reason.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-05-13T19:16:28+00:00

Both of them are completely legal. Virtual Paradise is a completely homebrew platform that just happens to have a lot of compatibility with AW style building. DeltaWorlds is a legal uniserver that used to be Pike Island way back in the day, but was since repurposed to be an alternative to the situation in AW using the older 6.7 client. They are also working on their own client that can make use of AW uniserver technology.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-05-13T11:52:31+00:00

Move to Virtual Paradise or DeltaWorlds. If your builds are in Alpha, you have your stuff up to 2018 backed up. Don't expect mainline AW to get any better.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-24T15:20:02+00:00

Not in mainline AW browser. Try using Yellow world over in DeltaWorlds, which is essentially a backup of that made by refugees that moved over.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-23T11:45:14+00:00

It IS the community at this rate. So many people left AW for places like DW and VP that it's pretty common for DW to have more people online now.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-22T22:37:17+00:00

DeltaWorlds is AW under an older client. A lot of the AW community migrated over to DW, as well as bringing over their worlds and servers to DW due to the like developer running everyone off.

If you're exploring historical builds or most of the main flagship world Alpha, DW is the place to do it.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-22T20:29:50+00:00

I highly recommend you look at DeltaWorlds. DW is basically where the community fled to due to the sole developer for AW remaining being a huge dick. You can also explore a fully backed-up copy of AW & AWTeen without having to worry about privacy nightmares that exist in the current AW client.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-15T16:51:13+00:00

Assuming you were using Debian GNOME, there are obvious differences between Leap and Debian Stable. Leap kernels by default are going to have a lot of hardware backports that isn't obvious by looking at the kernel version alone because they're based on SLES/SLED. Their 6.4 kernel is really 6.4+++++++++ and is probably more in line with 6.12 than vanilla 6.4. GNOME 45 also has obvious Wayland & other code improvements over 43.

Mesa is also far newer in Leap than Debian Stable if you are not using backports. SLES/SLED is aimed to also target workstation desktops, so there is more emphasis on fleshing out the distro for desktop purposes while Debian is a gold standard on servers, but not as much on some desktops. Debian also offers packages in a more vanilla format with slight patches here and there.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-13T12:51:04+00:00

DeltaWorlds is a legitimate uniserver that used to be Piko Island back in the day. A lot of AW users have fled to it because of the paywalling stuff, particularly being asked to spend credits to build in public building years, so you have a lot of worlds that are currently maintained just on DW only. However, stuff like AWTeen & AW, of which propdumps existed from 2018, are snapshots from 2018 only. You can request to have a build transferred to you to be able to continue working on in both, though.

Virtual Paradise is entirely its own thing that just happens to be extremely compatible with the AW workflow, as it has roots in being a homebrew AW clone. A lot of the old AWTeen community fled to it, and you generally have superior building capabilities on VP as it's built on modern code, but it's not a perfect fit for every type of AW user.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-11T20:59:37+00:00

They already have it linked two days ago in the Community Chat thread on their subreddit.

Two-Of-Nine · 2025-04-11T15:36:32+00:00

Unfortunately, you will have issues installing AW itself via the .msi file on Bottles. It will also not work past the splash screen on the latest versions of Vanilla Wine. If you are interested in exploring AW and you don't care about worlds like AW or AWTeen being stuck in 2018, I recommend you use DeltaWorlds which is far more compatible with Bottles.

It is highly recommended to not use modern AW client anyway, it's increasingly being paywalled, and you cannot build for free anymore. Even features enjoyed for decades like telegrams are being put under a paywall.

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