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I’ve run a self-hosted Conduit instance for some years now. Pros: easy to install and use. Cons: it’s beta software! That said, it’s been really good for me. R

I’ve run a self-hosted Conduit instance for some years now. Pros: easy to install and use. Cons: it’s beta software! That said, it’s been really good for me. Reliable chat between my and a few friends, plus some big-ish rooms that I participate in. The author also works on Veloren[1]—another fun Rust project! [1]: https://veloren.net https://veloren.net

socceroos 3y ago
I've been using Conduit for quite a while now and have found it to be very good. For ages though it has been missing support for spaces, but support has just landed in the development builds and it is great. I've already updated my service and it has worked as expected.
_8j50 3y ago
I wish there was a similar client that has full feature support but that's the problem with matrix, too many features, signal, discord, slack, zoom and teams all meshed into one thing. Would be nice if they had a secure chat only sub-protocol.
smoldesu 3y ago
> The author also works on Veloren That game is fucking cool. A couple years ago me and some friends compiled it for kicks and giggles to see what it was all about. To our surprise, the game ran silky smooth on my GTX 1050 Ti. We get into a lobby. We play for a half hour. We're just exploring (the map is barebones but has cool landmarks) when I realize that you can scroll to zoom out from your character. In a psychadelic twist, you can just keep zooming out past normal ARPG levels and into a minimap-scale world, then above the clouds, all without dropping a frame. I don't know how well-maintained the project is today, but it's got the bones for a badass RPG. One of these days I'll hop back on...
- freeCandy 3y ago
  The game is very actively developed and there are lots of devlogs https://veloren.net/devblogs https://veloren.net/devblogs If the last time you played was a few years ago, they've pushed out a huge amount of features since then. Very impressive for a fully open source game.
- sph 3y ago
  From Veloren's home page: "Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft." I love how pointing out that it's written in Rust is more important that describing what the game is about or inspired by. Classic open source project unsure of who's the intended audience.
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  - lightbritefight 3y ago
    Seems like they know that the audience for an open source game is going to be FOSS nerds first, gamers second. Leading with Rust makes a lot of sense in the list of descriptions.
  - smoldesu 3y ago
    The expectation is probably more for contributors to read that, not players.
  - ciwolsey 3y ago
    Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?
  - zesterer 3y ago
    Founder & core dev here. Our target audience is just as much potential contributors as it is actual players. Mentioning Rust is very deliberate: it pulls in a lot of motivated developers, both those trying to learn the language and those with expert knowledge looking for a creative, relaxed way to put their skills into practice.
- ashton314 3y ago
  > I don't know how well-maintained the project is today Updates every Thursday! If you ever get on the main server, look for "varsderk" and I'll help you bootstrap fast. :)
- zesterer 3y ago
  It's still going strong! We just released 0.15. It's still in pre-alpha, but the map is much less sparse nowadays and there's a lot more to do!
vmfunction 3y ago
Yeah seems like a good alternative to run the dentrite (go) server. That seems to be in development forever. At this point, the python server is taking too much resources, nice to see an alternative to go the server.
Arkanosis 3y ago
I've been running it for 10 months now. Very smooth experience (both installation and usage). I'm the only user on my server and I've not joined any very active room, but so far its impact on my small VPS performance has been negligible.

socceroos 3y ago

I've been using Conduit for quite a while now and have found it to be very good. For ages though it has been missing support for spaces, but support has just landed in the development builds and it is great. I've already updated my service and it has worked as expected.

_8j50 3y ago

I wish there was a similar client that has full feature support but that's the problem with matrix, too many features, signal, discord, slack, zoom and teams all meshed into one thing. Would be nice if they had a secure chat only sub-protocol.

smoldesu 3y ago

> The author also works on Veloren That game is fucking cool. A couple years ago me and some friends compiled it for kicks and giggles to see what it was all about. To our surprise, the game ran silky smooth on my GTX 1050 Ti. We get into a lobby. We play for a half hour. We're just exploring (the map is barebones but has cool landmarks) when I realize that you can scroll to zoom out from your character. In a psychadelic twist, you can just keep zooming out past normal ARPG levels and into a minimap-scale world, then above the clouds, all without dropping a frame. I don't know how well-maintained the project is today, but it's got the bones for a badass RPG. One of these days I'll hop back on...

freeCandy 3y ago
The game is very actively developed and there are lots of devlogs https://veloren.net/devblogs https://veloren.net/devblogs If the last time you played was a few years ago, they've pushed out a huge amount of features since then. Very impressive for a fully open source game.
sph 3y ago
From Veloren's home page: "Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft." I love how pointing out that it's written in Rust is more important that describing what the game is about or inspired by. Classic open source project unsure of who's the intended audience.
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- lightbritefight 3y ago
  Seems like they know that the audience for an open source game is going to be FOSS nerds first, gamers second. Leading with Rust makes a lot of sense in the list of descriptions.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  The expectation is probably more for contributors to read that, not players.
- ciwolsey 3y ago
  Why does there have to be an audience, or why can't it be other people interested in Rust?
- zesterer 3y ago
  Founder & core dev here. Our target audience is just as much potential contributors as it is actual players. Mentioning Rust is very deliberate: it pulls in a lot of motivated developers, both those trying to learn the language and those with expert knowledge looking for a creative, relaxed way to put their skills into practice.
ashton314 3y ago
> I don't know how well-maintained the project is today Updates every Thursday! If you ever get on the main server, look for "varsderk" and I'll help you bootstrap fast. :)
zesterer 3y ago
It's still going strong! We just released 0.15. It's still in pre-alpha, but the map is much less sparse nowadays and there's a lot more to do!

vmfunction 3y ago

Yeah seems like a good alternative to run the dentrite (go) server. That seems to be in development forever. At this point, the python server is taking too much resources, nice to see an alternative to go the server.

Arkanosis 3y ago

I've been running it for 10 months now. Very smooth experience (both installation and usage). I'm the only user on my server and I've not joined any very active room, but so far its impact on my small VPS performance has been negligible.