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Discord Alternative

What if your community lived somewhere built for it?

Discord was made for everyone. Weered was made for game communities. Lobbies instead of servers, rooms instead of channels, presence instead of status dots — and real integrations with the games you actually play.

The shape of the thing

Discord puts you in a list of servers, each with a list of channels. You scroll a feed of messages and hope someone is around. Weered is a place. You walk into the Destiny 2 lobby and there are rooms with names like Fireteam Find — Ultimate Ops and Trials Carry-talk. Each room has a live voice channel, a live chat, and a stage that anyone can put a Twitch stream, a YouTube clip, a browser tab, or a Lichess board on. Other Guardians are visible — not as a status dot, but as actual presence in the room.

It feels closer to walking into a clubhouse than opening an app. That difference is the whole pitch.

What you get that Discord doesn't have

Game-API integrations, not just bots

Bungie API for Destiny 2 PGCRs. Riot API for League stats. Lichess + Chess.com pull-through for chess. Steam Rich Presence. Path of Exile ladder. Real data, real verification, no third-party bot setup.

Tournaments verified by API

Submit a Destiny 2 raid time, Weered reads the PGCR and confirms. Run a Lichess blitz tournament, Weered pulls the games. No screenshots, no honour system, no manual scoring.

Cross-platform presence

The left rail shows where you are everywhere: Steam, Xbox, PSN, Twitch, Spotify. Your crew sees you're on Hollow Knight before you have to type "anyone want to play."

Shared media on the room canvas

Drop a YouTube clip, a Twitch stream, a Lichess board, a screen share, or just a browser tab onto the room stage. Everyone in voice watches the same thing in sync. No bot, no plugin.

A real challenge / contest layer

Lobby-wide challenges with Notoriety + Paper rewards. Flair design contests with public voting. A platform-wide currency you can actually spend.

No server admin tax

Lobbies already exist. You don't pick categories, set up roles, write a #welcome channel, or moderate from scratch. You arrive, you're in. Build a crew when you want one.

What's the same as Discord

  • Free to use. Voice, video, chat, screen share, presence — all free.
  • Voice chat. Group voice in every room via LiveKit. Push-to-talk, voice activity, listen-only modes.
  • DMs and group chats. Private messaging works exactly the way you'd expect.
  • Desktop + web + mobile. Tauri desktop app, web at weered.ca, mobile in the works.
  • Custom servers when you want them. Crews are your private space — same role flexibility, just less mandatory.

Who Weered is for

Game communities that want to be somewhere together, not just talk in a feed. Crews that play the same handful of games regularly. Streamers who want their audience in a room with them, not a wall of follow-pings. Tournament organisers who are tired of Discord-spreadsheet-screenshot stitch-jobs. Anyone who remembers MPlayer in the 90s and has been missing that "lobby" feeling ever since.

Who Weered isn't for: generic communities that don't care about games — book clubs, study groups, work teams. Discord is genuinely fine for those. Use the right tool.

Common questions

Is Weered free like Discord?

Yes. Premium tiers exist for cosmetics + storage starting at $4 / month, but the core platform — lobbies, rooms, voice, presence, game integrations — is free.

Do I have to host a server?

No. Game lobbies already exist. You walk in, you're there. No admin setup required to start.

Can I import my Discord community?

Not directly — Weered's shape is different enough that 1-to-1 import would feel wrong. The right move is to point your crew at the game lobby they care about, and create a private crew space alongside it.

Does Weered have voice chat?

Yes — group voice in every room. Push-to-talk, voice activity, listen-only modes, ducking, the works.

Try it.

Walk into the lobby for your game. It's free and you don't have to set anything up.

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