I’m not sure they fully read what the changes do… Because right now it’s not even just a worse provider, it’s straight up broken for self-hosters. Also, they only closed the back end PR, not the front end one that explicitly relies on it.
My branch is still available on my own repo though, if anyone wants to try building from that.
Adapting from another comment: Alrighty, I spent the last 6 or 7 hours on this.
So I heard about Klipy from this thread, and it sounded great: built as a drop-in replacement for Tenor. And it would be drop-in replacement, if I was satisfied with leaving a bunch of crap hardcoded in Stoat. But no, I’m a frackin’ madman and I decided that if I was gonna do this I was gonna do it right and put the gif provider config in env vars, replacing all the hardcoding, and then also putting in valid link construction for gif search, and actually putting it into chat. So far it only works with Klipy, as far as I’ve tested… but it does work.
I thought you’d like to know, I spent the last 6 or 7 hours on this:
It would be drop-in replacement if I was satisfied with leaving a bunch of crap hardcoded. But no, I’m a frackin’ madman and I decided that if I was gonna do this I was gonna do it right and put the gif provider config in env vars, replacing all the hardcoding, and then also putting in valid link construction for gif search, and actually putting it into chat. So far it only works with Klipy, as far as I’ve tested… but it does work.
Legend, I appreciate the heads-up (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉 I’m checking out the docs now!
Legend. I just got the admin panel working with my domain last night in cosmos-compose (including the admin panel shortcuts on the front end). Had to replace all the hardlinks in the source 😅 I was planning on replacing tenor with Giphy this weekend. Would that be helpful to share, if I get it working?
Neat, I’ll keep an eye out for that; ideally they’ll implement something less centralised than Giphy. In the meantime I got their admin panel running in my environment too, by fixing the source, so Giphy is next on my list. I want my users to be able to do gif searches 🤷♀️
I think it sounds like you’re letting other people tell you what you are and aren’t capable of, without realising it. Most games are difficult for new players, you have to learn them; maybe you’ll find out you’re really good at this one! Just jump in and play. If you’re having a lot of trouble in one area, just run off and find a different area to explore. You might find a powerful weapon or armour, and you’ll definitely find enemies to kill which will make you stronger when you level up. The game gives you ways like that to make it easier, without mods or difficulty sliders 😊
Keeping an eye on this. I got stoat chat up and running, and it’s great so far, but it was a big pain to get ruon my environment, it doesn’t have video calling yet or screen sharing, and it’s still using the Tenor API which just got deprecated some time in January 2026 so GIF search doesn’t work (I have vague plans to try and switch that to Giphy, and submit it to the team for review if I can get it to work).
Agreed. No joke, if they had a web interface I’d already have a license and I’d be running that instead.
Don’t get me wrong, I used teamspeak with my friends back in the day for Counterstrike, Starcraft, Warcraft, DoTA (yeah, the mod), and it was great. TS6 does look awesome, and I like the new interface even. But none of that is relevant, read what I wrote: I didn’t say “I have a problem with using clients”, or even honestly “I have a problem with all closed-source software”. I said “I am done trying to get people to install another app” and because I can’t get anyone to install another app, “clients are a nonstarter for my use case”. That’s it, that’s the reason.
Shit man, you just said
If I could convince my communities to swap
So you fucking get it. I’m not going to pay for a license for software that nobody’s going to use because of the bullshit excuse that they’d “have to install another app”. Instead I spent a few days of my time learning some stuff (which I’d have had to do for TS6 anyway) and got Stoat up and running in my environment, and now I have a web app for voice calls. They don’t support video or screensharing yet, but that’s not a nonstarter for me because those features are on the roadmap.
Well just try not to get it in my eye this time, it stings
I mean, it’s a bit weird to get erect for being charged money and not controlling the software you pay for (also, to get erect over communications software at all), and weirder to tell us all about it, but okay.
I ain’t here cause I know something wrong
I’m here cause reddit doesn’t have a good app
And they used to, didn’t they? Can you remember what happened to those apps, and why? That’s right, they stopped working, because Reddit closed off their API, which can’t happen here.
So I guess you are here because you know that something is wrong with reddit, after all. You said so yourself.
I don’t disagree with your view of Valve, and I’m glad you see that their reputation isn’t the point.
Can you link the repo you used, to sate my curiosity?
But TeamSpeak 6 requires a client, and a subscription, that is a nonstarter for my use case.
These guys have been at it for several years now. Check out their GitHub, look at the components.
I’m trying to modify their dockerfile a bit so it runs in my container manager and uses my reverse proxy, instead of the one they included, and it creates more containers for this one application than I have for all my other projects combined.
All of which is to say: “pretty hard” is the answer. It is pretty damn hard to build this stuff.
Just move back to the flood plain every time your house gets swept away, rebuild on the side of the volcano every eruption, and keep moving to proprietary platforms every time one enshittifies. Right?
Wrong. You’re here on the fediverse because you know that’s wrong. We need an alternative, but right now they’re all pretty tough to set up by ourselves. For example, I’m once again working on getting revolt/stoat running, and it’s pain (probably mostly due to my environment, I might give up and put it on its own machine).
The more reason to abandon them, IMO, when they try to hold those communities hostage. Discord needs us, not the other way around. Without them, we find other ways to talk to our people. Without us, they don’t have a business.
I did; we’ll see if they read it I guess.
In the meantime, I built my changes into my own repo, and I included an install script for anyone who wants to run this with Cosmos (https://cosmos-cloud.io/) handling the container management and reverse proxy. I’ve tried to handle as much of the setup as possible - you only need a domain with a couple of subdomains, and optionally you can enter SMTP credentials during setup if you want the script to configure that for you too (alternatively, just add your credentials to your revolt.toml later).
If you want to give it a go you can find the initial release here: https://github.com/dorkian-gray/stoatchat_cosmos