At first, my thoughts were, Why not use matrix, Matrix is good and all but I finally decided to give it a try and My god, for a discord alternative is it good!
It is one of the few messaging apps that I am very excited to hear about in future from.
> And this brings us to the present year of 2026. On January 2, 2026, I tried to do a Show HN, to no avail (a bit surprising, given that this is a topic that gets brought up on HN almost every other week, with users being quite frustrated with the existing OSS community chat options).
This is also a message to Dang/HN moderation to add their Show HN to the second pool if possible as even I would really appreciate it. Reading their blog shows that they have been working on this project for 5 years.
I want Hackernews community to show some love to fluxer that it deserves.
Please do note that infra might have some issues and I wanted to create a hackernews community on fluxer but its resources are streched so thin that I wasn't able to change the logo (No worries tho!)
But that is also why I am sharing because this is a new project in which early supporter backing could go a long way and I don't want someone to be de-motivated for a project which is so so good, I am not kidding.
One of the biggest things that I find it interesting which can be relevant here is that I read on hackernews itself once that the reason discord won from teamspeak was that people could view messages before properly signing up. Fluxer does that too and that feature was what made them win my hearts because that isn't available in matrix or anything and it all felt frictional but with fluxer, that friction was removed and I really appreciated this and many other decisions they have made.
If you have a discord community or you have a github project and have discord as a link for people to go ahead and talk to you. I'd suggest to use fluxer now because this can have its own network effects and actually turns out that fluxer is a new app so even your minor decision of supporting it in any form right now would be a huge decision for its future.
I am tinkering with for an hour or two and am absolutely loving this project and the software behind it. I hope the community shows this project love as well.
Imustaskforhelp•1h ago
At first, my thoughts were, Why not use matrix, Matrix is good and all but I finally decided to give it a try and My god, for a discord alternative is it good!
It is one of the few messaging apps that I am very excited to hear about in future from.
As I read more, I saw this blog of theirs https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-ch... and they mentioned:
> And this brings us to the present year of 2026. On January 2, 2026, I tried to do a Show HN, to no avail (a bit surprising, given that this is a topic that gets brought up on HN almost every other week, with users being quite frustrated with the existing OSS community chat options).
This is surpising to me too because I spend quite a lot of time on HN and I couldn't see this post. It's a shame more than anything. I have upvoted their Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468725&ref=blog.fluxe...
This is also a message to Dang/HN moderation to add their Show HN to the second pool if possible as even I would really appreciate it. Reading their blog shows that they have been working on this project for 5 years.
I want Hackernews community to show some love to fluxer that it deserves.
Please do note that infra might have some issues and I wanted to create a hackernews community on fluxer but its resources are streched so thin that I wasn't able to change the logo (No worries tho!)
But that is also why I am sharing because this is a new project in which early supporter backing could go a long way and I don't want someone to be de-motivated for a project which is so so good, I am not kidding.
I have created an invite link to hackernews community for fluxer: https://fluxer.gg/crVKp7Rb
One of the biggest things that I find it interesting which can be relevant here is that I read on hackernews itself once that the reason discord won from teamspeak was that people could view messages before properly signing up. Fluxer does that too and that feature was what made them win my hearts because that isn't available in matrix or anything and it all felt frictional but with fluxer, that friction was removed and I really appreciated this and many other decisions they have made.
If you have a discord community or you have a github project and have discord as a link for people to go ahead and talk to you. I'd suggest to use fluxer now because this can have its own network effects and actually turns out that fluxer is a new app so even your minor decision of supporting it in any form right now would be a huge decision for its future.
I am tinkering with for an hour or two and am absolutely loving this project and the software behind it. I hope the community shows this project love as well.