Revolt Timeline
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.