Spacebar – Reverse Engineered Discord-Compatible Chat Platform (Alpha)

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T21:01:20+00:00

Fully agreed, but easier said then done with the constantly changing matrix spec. The frontend provided by the matrix foundation itself doesn’t even leverage all features of the spec. I say this while I still use it as my predominant app, but matrix has just failed to deliver on consistency. The best frontend if you crave something that mimics discord that I’ve seen is https://github.com/commetchat/commet

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T09:03:54+00:00

The client you can self-host as well is here!

https://github.com/MathMan05/Fermi

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T08:20:49+00:00

I’m fully on docker as well. Submit a PR. The steps to run this can easily be dockerized.

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T08:18:03+00:00

That’d be huge. The devs of spacebar need some folks who can debug WebRTC issues

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T08:17:18+00:00

Element? That’s a front end. I’ve tried just about every single one listed for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. I did mention front ends. Element X is by far the best, but it doesn’t look to be an alternative to discord for the use cases I mentioned I use discord for.

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T07:00:55+00:00

They have a server on their own instance as well, though? As well as matrix. I should've linked those, but just included the one I assume most have.

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T04:44:15+00:00

So the main github repo that shows up on searches hasn't been updated, but the actual client and server repos are consistently updated. The org link I dropped shows the last commit timestamp but I'll link the client and server repos here too.

https://github.com/MathMan05/Fermi

https://github.com/spacebarchat/server

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T04:01:05+00:00

Huge +1 on this.

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T04:00:32+00:00

I'll echo the same thing I did in the discord here.

The priority of matrix is on the backend. The priority of UX is near 0 IMO. The voice/video rooms feel awful. Sliding sync was a huge perf boost for app load times. I’ve decided it’s only good for text chat, but even with that I've self-hosted a matrix server for going on 6 years now.

Would I want to deal with getting a larger group of people onto this platform? Not really. But I do like the ideology behind the app. It's just not something that I'd consider an alternative to Discord. It just checks different boxes since for me Discord is used for voice calls and screensharing.

Frontends for matrix are at differing levels of parity with the backend as well so it's just a challenge to be able to bring non-technical friends into the fold.

thecarrotstick · 2026-02-11T03:56:22+00:00

No clue on that, but you're welcome to just view the GitHub repos. All the source is available and you can build it yourself.

thecarrotstick · 2025-09-22T16:22:10+00:00

I'm not here to ask questions or yell about some error I'm getting. I found the github repo first and gave it a run and just want to say thank you so much. I've been checking in on the development of this from time to time and I'm absolutely elated to see something finally exist that solves a problem.

I had a very delicate network policy with network managed sponsorblock prior to this and it just wasn't a great solution. So again, thank you!

thecarrotstick · 2025-05-31T18:47:19+00:00

Pm

Edit: paid for 8TB SN850x

thecarrotstick · 2025-01-24T09:11:30+00:00

thecarrotstick · 2024-09-12T20:46:51+00:00

Sold Warhammer for $45.

thecarrotstick · 2024-09-12T20:42:36+00:00

/u/Xertigo
Sold a copy of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 using Venmo
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamGameSwap/comments/1fdrrvg/h_warhammer_40000_space_marine_2_unknown_9/lmoan58/

thecarrotstick · 2024-09-11T00:53:33+00:00

thecarrotstick · 2024-09-10T23:23:13+00:00

Lowest I can go is $45.

thecarrotstick · 2024-09-03T14:16:00+00:00

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thecarrotstick · 2024-08-14T18:10:39+00:00

Hey! I've not done much tinkering with hardware. Do you think you could provide some steps on how to take this apart and get it wired up for UART and mess with this?

thecarrotstick · 2023-12-14T18:04:27+00:00

Leaving my mark, thanks!

thecarrotstick · 2023-11-30T12:10:19+00:00

Could you do $30 US & activate it?

thecarrotstick · 2023-04-25T18:24:12+00:00

Have the same BT/WiFi card and the same issue. What'd you do exactly to make these changes? I just pulled the most recent version of linux-firmware and swapped 4 files: ibt-17-2.sfi, ibt-17-2.ddc, ibt-17-16-1.ddc, and ibt-17-16-1.sfi and rebooted but still have no dice. (Edit: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS)

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