Discord vs Guilded vs Slack vs Revolt.chat

Hello. This this blog, I will tell you which chat messaging platform is the best. Discord, Guilded, Slack, or revolt.chat. If you have no idea what any of these platforms are, they are basically chat messaging apps where you can talk with people but all focus of different things. Discord and revolt focuses on communities, Guilded for gamers, and Slack for businesses. In this article, I will compare each platform and see which one of these platforms is the best. I will also give each platform points based on the place they are in per part of the messaging application. 1st place will recieve 3 points, 2nd place will recieve 2 points and 3rd place will recieve 1 point. And of course, 4th place gets 0 points.

Note: The comparasion has been made on March 2023.

PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION:

Lets start with profile customization. With Discord, you can have a username, profile picture, about me (max 190 characters), Ability to add social media connections, and custom banner color for free. If you pay for Nitro though ($10 a month), you can get animated profile picture, custom banner, custom profile pic for each server, and custom tag. On Guilded, you can have a profile picture (even animated), url for your profile, banner, about, ability to add social media connections, an about me, and a status feed to share all sorts of things on your profile. On slack, you barely get anything. All you get is a username and profile picture. On revolt.chat, you can have a username, profile picture, banner, and about.

For points, Guilded is 1st (3pts). Discord is 2nd (2pts), Revolt is 3rd (1pt), and Slack is in fourth place (0pts).

MESSAGING AND CALLING:

Next, lets talk about messaging and calling. On Discord you can message anyone unless they lock their DMs to friends only or can only message them on certain servers you share with them. You can also create group DMs with up to 10 people. Guilded is pretty similar to Discord's messaging system except you can not make DM groups. On slack, you can't make user groups (unless you buy a paid version of slack) nor can you screenshare. On revolt, you can create groups like discord (Don't know how many members you can have in a group but you can add bots in a group chat.

For points, this is a difficult decision but I would say revolt is in 1st (3pts) because you could add bots in revolt groups, Guilded in 2nd (2pts), Discord 3rd (1pt) and Slack in last place (0pts). You can debate between Discord, Guilded and Revolt politely in the comments since this is a tough decision as well.

SERVERS:

Next, lets talk about servers. On discord, you have a server icon, 50 emojis and 5 stickers. When you boost servers, you can get an animated icon, banner, more emoji slots, and even a vanity invite link. On Guilded, you can have server icon, unlimited emoji slots, unlimited channels, banner, even groups for different games your members play. On slack, well, it seems you can only have a server icon, and emojis. It is not clear how many emojis you can have in your slack workspace. Oh yeah, slack servers are called workspaces. On revolt.chat, you can have a server icon, banner, and server description.

For points, Guilded is 1st (3pts). Discord is 2nd (2pts), Revolt is 3rd (1pt) and Slack is in fourth place (0pts). This is the second time in a row where the points is the same as the first part I judged. The next part is a complete different story.

FILE UPLOADS:

This one will be short. Next, I will talk about maximum file size uploads. On Discord, you can only have 8MB file uploads however if you have nitro, then you can have 500MB max file size uploads. on Guilded, I think it is around 200MB max file size uploads. On Slack, you get a whopping 1GB max file size. On revolt, it seems like the max file upload size is 15MB.

This time, Slack is in 1st place (3pts), Guilded is in 2nd (2pts), revolt.chat is 3rd (1pt) and Discord is in 4th (0pts). This has been a huge change for this part.

CHANNELS:

When it comes to channels, with Discord, you can create Text, Voice, Announcements (if your server is community enabled), Forums, and Stage channels. With Guilded, you can create Text, Stream, Voice, Calender, Scedule, Announcements, Forums, List, Docs, and Media channels. With slack, you can only create text channels. With revolt, you can only create Text and voice channels.

For points, Guilded is 1st (3pts). Discord is 2nd (2pts), Revolt is 3rd (1pt) and Slack is in fourth place (0pts).... AGAIN!

BOTS:

Alright, now lets talk about bots in these messaging applications. On discord, bots are commonly used around discord and can be made using coding languages like Python and Javascript. Guilded bots are very, very simple to make. You could create a guilded bot for your server in like less than 5 minutes with Guilded's flow bots system. However, Guilded released their API on December 2022 where you can code your guilded bots and make your bots public to other servers. With slack, they have slack apps but I literally have no clue on how they work. On revolt.chat, they do have bots and can be made with coding languages like discord bots. Be warned if you use the Python library to make your revolt bot, you require Python 3.9 so you can not host your revolt.chat bot on replit.

For points, I think Discord and Guilded would be in 1st place (3pts) as this is debatable on which platform's bots are better. Revolt would be in 2nd place (2pts) and Slack would be in last place (1pt)

CONCLUSION:

In conclusion, Guilded has more stuff that can be used for free and would make the best alternative to discord. Guilded feels like almost a cracked version of Discord Nitro and boosts. However, Discord is used and preferred by more people so Discord is great to use and probably a bit more easier to figure out. Slack is just.... Slacking. I understand Slack is for businesses but I know businesses would love to save money. You would be better off using discord and use Google drive for file uploading. I gotta figure out how to delete my slack account. revolt.chat is pretty bare bones. However, if Discord and Guilded did not exist and you had to choose between slack and revolt.chat, revolt.chat is the way to go. For total points, Guilded has 16 points (1st place, Discord has 10 points (2nd place), Revolt has 9 points (3rd place), and Slack has 4 points (4th place)

Hopefully this article helps out which chat messaging platform to use. If there are other chat messaging platforms that I don't know of that I should compare that you think would go up against Discord, Guilded, Revolt, and Slack, then let me know in the comments. (A google account is required to comment to combat spam bots in the comments section).