melodious-chat / melodious

A self-hosted Discord alternative written in Go.

PROJECT FROZEN; Contributors needed

I have too much going on, so the project is currently in the frozen state. I have little to no time on developing Melodious because I'm not going to sacrifice my time for this project due to having a full-time job.
I (or we) may get back on developing Melodious by January 1st 2020; but for now, if you want to contribute, please let me know. - Polyzium, December 22nd 2019

UPDATE: I'm no longer commited to its development due to Fosscord's existence. I recommend you use that instead when it's ready.
Updated on July 21st 2022

Melodious

Tired of Discord's staff telling you to shut the fuck up about #DiscordUnbanQuackity? Well, Project Melodious is the chat for you!

No bullshit, no biasing, fully opensource and can be hosted by anybody!

Written in Go, it is both fast and stable. Changes being made literally every 7-12 hours, it is growing fast and strong to be a fully-featured Discord clone, without furries!

Although it might seem like a shit idea since Discord is boasting a userbase of >150M people and counting, we are free of furries, which will probably attract more people.

Now, seriously

Melodious is an attempt at writing a self-hosted Discord alternative initiated by recent Discord staff actions mentioned above.

Its server is being written in Go, while web client will be written in JavaScript.

Building

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/melodious-chat/melodious.git
$ cd melodious
$ go build

Configuring

Melodious server requires a running copy of PostgreSQL.

An example config file:

{
    "db-addr": "postgres://handicraftsman:password@localhost/melodious?sslmode=disable",
    "http-addr": "0.0.0.0:8080",
    "delete-history-every": "1h",
    "store-history-for": "P1W"
}

store-history-for is a ISO 8601 duration string.

delete-history-every is a duration string as described at https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration

Starting

/path/to/melodious -config /path/to/melodious.config.json

Current To-Do list

• Implement misc features
  • VoIP
  • editable messages
  • custom user status
• Add a REST API for those who cannot use websockets