DISCORD WAS BUILTFOR GAMERS.EARDE IS BUILT FORTECHNICAL COMMUNITIES.

Talk in real time, promote the answers worth keeping into durable threads, and make selected knowledge discoverable on the open web—without splitting your community between chat and forum.

ENTER EARDE

IT RUNS IN YOUR BROWSER!

The Earde app in the browser: channel list, live chat, and durable forum threads in one community shell

HOW IT WORKS

Turn chat messages into forum threads before they disappear.

Select the useful part of a live conversation and promote it into a titled, durable thread. The original messages stay connected, so the context survives without copy-paste or a separate forum.

CHATPROMOTEFORUM THREAD

PLAYS ONCE · STATIC UNDER REDUCED MOTION

PUBLIC ON YOUR TERMS

Public when you choose. Private when you don’t.

Communities can be private or public. In public communities, owners decide which channels stay private and which become public, linkable, searchable, and discoverable through search engines.

01 · CHANNEL SETTINGS

Earde channel settings where an owner chooses which channels are public

02 · SEARCH-ENGINE RESULT

A search-engine result linking to a public Earde thread

REAL INDEXED EARDE RESULT · NO ENGINE IMITATION

03 · PUBLIC EARDE THREAD

A public Earde thread readable without logging in

GOVERNANCE

No single owner. No invisible moderation.

Top-level control is shared by three equal moderators instead of concentrated in one community-owner account. Moderation actions and their reasons remain visible in a transparent modlog.

THREE EQUAL TOP MODERATORS

PUBLIC MODERATION LOG

See how Earde stacks up.

Feature comparison between Earde and alternatives
Feature		Discord	Discourse	Zulip	Stoat	Element / Matrix
Real-Time Chat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Browser App	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Desktop & Mobile Apps	PLANNED	Yes	Mobile only	Yes	Beta	Yes
Full-Text Search	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chat-to-Thread	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Readable Without Login	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Search Engine Indexing	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Public/Private Channels & Communities	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
No Single Owner	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Public Modlog	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Cross-Community Account	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Discovery Feed	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Self-Hosting	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Federation	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

PLANNED

The platform can disappear. The archive shouldn’t.

Planned preservation tools will let communities request Wayback Machine snapshots of individual public discussions via their API, and export their durable knowledge as a searchable bundle with links to discussions previously archived in the Wayback Machine.

EXPORT CONCEPT

earde-community-export/
├── index.html
├── search-index.json
├── threads/
└── assets/

Planned feature. Captures depend on Internet Archive availability and page archivability.

A public Earde thread in the shape it would be preserved and archived

What we’re building next

Check out some of the features planned as Earde grows:

Desktop & mobile apps

Voice channels

Screen sharing

Direct messages

GitHub integration

Documentation integrations

API

Community customization

Import tools

Wayback Machine integration

Build a community that remembers.

Open Earde in your browser and turn live discussions into durable knowledge.

ENTER EARDE