Revolt Timeline
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.
There is a lot of missing entries here, you should help contribute them in.
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...?"