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diff --git a/src/content/blogs/discord-sucks-so-i-made-my-own.mdx b/src/content/blogs/discord-sucks-so-i-made-my-own.mdx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cb6147 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/blogs/discord-sucks-so-i-made-my-own.mdx @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +title: "Discord sucks! ...so I made my own" +description: How I built Eko - THE discord alternative for terminal nerds +date: 2025-08-08 +--- + +## Discord sucks + +I have been disatisfied with discord for a few years by now, the main reasons that most people will +agree with me, are it's slow, sluggish, bloated, and that it gets worse over time. + +- Reduced upload size from 50mb to 10mb +- Ugly UI revamps +- Literally ships with an entire browser (chromium due to electron) + +But there are a few more personal reasons for me. + +Ignoring the fact that I am in 100 servers and literally can't join any more, +as someone who spends most of his day in the terminal, writing code with NVIM (btw), +I really missed vim motions in discord, they are great and I'd probably talk about them in the future. + +## Searching for alternatives + +Vim motions are so ubiquitous they are practically everywhere, not just coding editors like Zed and +vsc\*de but also note taking apps like Obsidian, and heck, even google docs have an extension for them. + +Surely an app as popular as Discord will have them right? well after some searching I found +[Cordless](https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/cordless), a discord client in the terminal, great! + +Reading the readme, I immediately got dissapointed, the project has been shutdown. +The reason was due to a high risk of Discord banning users for ToS violation, so I couldn't even make my own client! + +## The idea + +So I thought to myself, if Discord doesn't let me make a client, I'll write my own Discord, complete +with a backend, frontend and most importantly, vim motions! + +Great, now that I have the idea, what languages do I use for the backend and the frontend? + +I heard that golang is a really good language for the backend, due to it's concurrency model making +it easy to handle a ton of connections simultaneously. + +And what about the frontend? I'd need to find some library to help me make a TUI (terminal UI), +After some searching, I found [bubbletea](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea) from [charm](https://github.com/charmbracelet), +a golang library for creating TUIs, perfect. + +This has the added benefit of the backend and frontend being able to share types as they are +written in the same language. + +## The release + +After months of work, I am happy to present... + +[Eko](https://github.com/kyren223/eko) - a terminal-native discord alternative for terminal enthusiasts! + +<img src="/eko-screenshot.png" alt="Description" style={{ width: '1000px', paddingBottom: '20px' }} /> + +For more information head over to the [README](https://github.com/kyren223/eko), or install it now with +``` +curl -sS https://eko.kyren.codes/install.sh | sh +``` + +Hope to see you there! + +As always if you have questions or want to chat, feel free to contact me on discord at Kyren223 or email me at Kyren223@proton.me. + +You can also add me on Eko, here's my ID: `2102554263552` |