Revolt Timeline
Revolt is an ever changing and developing platform. In an effort to archive its history, this timeline has been created. It details monumental changes and events from the platform's launch to the present day.
2021
27th January 2021: https://revolt.chat goes online
The website goes online for the first time and the first account is created.
@insert claimed at Wednesday, 27 January 2021 07:33
12th June 2021: Revolt Testers server goes live
(now called Revolt Lounge)
The first Revolt server is created and users start joining it.
11th August 2021: Public beta is opened
Revolt's beta release is silently opened to the public.
Change made effective by this website commit.
6th September 2021: #1 on Hacker News
Revolt reaches #1 on Hacker News, the platform is nearly hugged to death, message acknowledge requests are blocked to reduce platform instability.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434012
Trivia: nobody from the team posted or approved this.
13th September 2021: It's Foss article is published
An article about Revolt is published to "It's Foss".
Trivia: it also showed up on Google News as a result.
2022
8th May 2022: Revolt's blog goes live and the architecture overhaul goes live
A major overhaul to Revolt's backend is put into production which includes the addition of permissions, private channels, distributed service operation, OpenAPI specification, and more.
https://revolt.chat/posts/architecture-overhaul
5th December 2022: Blog post published about Andrew Tate's operation stealing Revolt's software
A blog post is published detailing Andrew Tate's operation stealing Revolt's software.
https://insrt.uk/post/andrew-tate-stealing-software-revolt
2023
23rd February 2023: Revolt's In-App reporting goes live with a corresponding blog post
Various changes to Revolt's policy and app go live in regards to improving user safety.
https://revolt.chat/posts/improving-user-safety
10th March 2023: Revolt's likely first big mention on a mainstream YouTube channel
Revolt is mentioned in SomeOrdinaryGamers' video "Is Discord Recording Your Calls...?"
https://youtu.be/1yUj_Jdis6E?t=271
15th March 2023: Revolt is promoted by "No Text To Speech"
Revolt is compared with Matrix in the "No Text To Speech" video "Nerdy Privacy-Focused Discord Alternatives!"
12th June 2023: Discriminators go live
Revolt announces the addition of discriminators for all user accounts following Discord's controversial choice to remove them. This results in a huge influx of users.
13th June 2023: 100,000 registered users
Revolt announces 100,000 registered users, shortly after the announcement of discriminator changes, and many users from Discord moving to Revolt.