How do I connect to the self-hosted server Revolt via the Desktop client?

[frenn]

Good afternoon.

I started the Revolt server via Docker on a virtual machine. I created a domain and changed it in the Revolt configuration files. I created an account through the browser and logged in. And how do I log in to my own server via the Desktop client? There are no settings for self-hosted servers.

Thank you.

[hizani]

I am not sure, but my assumption is that you should recompile the client with your server being hardcoded instead of the original one

[brokenCursor]

Yes, if you dig through the issues you can find a disscussion regarding this. The only available solutuion right now is editing the source and/or building the app yourself

[codevski]

that is so annoying specially for android distributing the app. I have no idea why the team didn't build around self-hosting option at login that asks to use official servers or a field box to add a domain considering its selling point is privacy. Really no point in self-hosting this at the moment.

[tavdog]

Yeah this is a deal breaker.

[abcxyz-m]

Oof. Just went through the entire setup process (even used your Hostinger referral link), only to run into this. I didn't think to check first, since I assumed (I know, I know) that the native app was built with self-hosted in mind.

Ah well. No harm done, fun learning experience and refund process with Hostinger was smooth.

[jktam]

Oof. Just went through the entire setup process (even used your Hostinger referral link), only to run into this. I didn't think to check first, since I assumed (I know, I know) that the native app was built with self-hosted in mind.

Ah well. No harm done, fun learning experience and refund process with Hostinger was smooth.

I spent a lot of time getting this to (possibly) run on my ARM64 instance in Oracle Cloud, but had to disable the web and crond services as they had no arm64 support. I assume without those the web client wouldn't work.

Oh well, at least this was an exercise in docker troubleshooting.

[IAmTomahawkx]

The desktop app is just an electron wrapper around our web app. Our web app gets its api URL at build time, so this isn't feasible at this point. You can just use the web app, or you can rebuild and distribute a desktop version with your URL built in. Ideally this is fixed in the rewrite of our web app, so stay tuned for that.

[Shanesan]

Thanks for that @IAmTomahawkx. I have a major fear (as well as others) that when Discord IPOs, Revolt, Matrix, XMPP, and other systems are going to have a MAJOR influx of users, and I don't think that non-federated services will be able to take the load, at all.

Obviously what we're talking about here isn't federation, but the current missing piece: a simple way to connect elsewhere, is going to be a minor bummer to major problem, especially for mobile app support.

We await with baited breath!

[tokenwizard]

Is there any plan to center the Mobile/Desktop apps around self-hosting?
My team was looking for a self-hosted alternative to Discord and we spun up a server on a VPS we already have, but not being able to point the apps to any arbitrary server that one might be self-hosting is a total deal breaker.

If this isn't in the plans, then I guess we will go with Matrix/Element instead.