What if the Discord client was blazingly fast?

You can find us on Discord: https://discord.gg/QafRarw25u

Usage

The fastest way to give it a go is at https://app.openbonfire.dev/! Note that at the time it will most likely require a token to login! This is because everything in the web version is proxied, so Discord requires captcha (which isn't implemented in Bonfire quite yet).

We now offer nightly builds! Please check out the github actions for the latest builds. You must be logged into to GitHub to view these builds.

NOTE: Bonfire is in it's very early stages of development. It is absolutely NOT ready for regular usage.

Bonfire

About

A modern alternative to the Discord client. Use Discord without ever having to touch the mobile Discord client.

Platform Support

Platform	Support Level	Notes
Android	🟩 Supported	Fully functional
iOS	🟩 Supported	Functional but needs testing
Windows	🟩 Supported	Fully functional
MacOS	🟩 Supported	Hypothetically close to working but needs fixes
Linux	🟩 Supported	Fully functional
WearOS	🟨 Partial	Works but requires manual token input
Web	🟩 Supported	Functional but requires token login

General Goals / Ethic

To start, lets outline a few things.

• This is not a seperate platform. You login with Discord, you are using all of Discord's features, but through the interface we've made instead of through Discord's.

• This is against TOS. Don't do use this unless you have some risk tolerance. I have never gotten banned in the development of Bonfire, but that isn't to say it can't happen.

• Bonfire is for all platforms. The goal motivation for the project is mobile, as that's where current modding is far worse, however it works great on Web, Windows and Linux as well!

• Extensions are planned. We plan on using (wasm_run)[https://github.com/juancastillo0/wasm_run] to allow for users to extend the functionality of Bonfire to their liking, and we also plan on hosting a marketplace where users can publish their plugins / download the plugins other people make.

Developing

General Info

There's a few projects that OpenBonfire uses and maintains, which can be found in our org. Let's just talk about the big ones.

• firebridge: A fork of nyxx (a bot API for Dart) that allows the usage of user tokens. This is where most of the networking logic happens.
• fireview: A cross-platform webview API that combines multiple webview frameworks. We recently switched away from this because of conflicts on Windows and Linux. Ideally this is what we use in the future.

Progress

Feature Category	Sub-feature	Status	Notes
Login	WebView-based login	🟩 Complete
	Web Login	🟨 Partial	Requires manual token input
	WearOS login support	🟥 Missing	Requires compiling with hard-coded token
Messaging	Sending Messages	🟩 Complete
	Cache Messages	🟩 Complete
	Message View	🟨 Partial	Missing bidirectional requests
	Context Actions	🟨 Partial	Edit, delete, etc. partially implemented
	Event Actions	🟨 Partial	Edit, delete, etc. partially implemented
	Embeds	🟩 Complete
	→ YouTube embeds	🟩 Complete
	→ Tenor videos	🟩 Complete
	→ Attachments	🟩 Complete
	→→ Image Attachments	🟩 Complete
	→→ Video Attachments	🟩 Complete
	→→ Audio Attachments	🟩 Complete	With mobile playback support
	Notifications	🟩 Complete
	Unreads	🟨 Partial	Somewhat buggy
	Threads	🟥 Missing
	Member List	🟨 Partial
	→ Base View	🟩 Complete
	→ Networking	🟩 Complete	Handled in firebridge
	→ Member Search	🟥 Missing
Friends		🟨 Partial
Guilds	Guild List	🟩 Complete
	Guild Networking	🟩 Complete
	Guild Organization	🟩 Complete
	→ Guild Order	🟩 Complete
	→ Guild Names	🟩 Complete
	→ Guild Folders	🟩 Complete
Voice/Video	Voice Chat	🟥 Missing	Planned but difficult to implement
	Camera Chat	🟥 Missing	Planned but difficult to implement
	Screen Sharing	🟥 Missing	Planned but difficult to implement

Not exhaustive - there's a lot of stuff to do

Building

• Clone Bonfire
• Run flutter pub run
• Run dart run build_runner watch -d in a seperate terminal
• You are on your way!

Build issues (mostly linux)

You may encounter issues on Linux (usually with packaging)

1. libmpv cannot be found: Download libmpv / libmpv-devel (package name varies per distro). If you get an issue in adjacent to libmpv cannot be found and it is installed (particuarly on Fedora), run sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libmpv.so.2 /usr/lib64/libmpv.so.1. This issue also appears when running the release varient from GitHub. I will eventually bundle the depend or apply this fix in the library itself. This issue is tracked at #3.
2. various media kit build errors: You need mpv / mpv-devel. Fedora will require you to follow the fix for build issue 1.
3. symbol lookup error: /lib64/libmpv.so.2: undefined symbol: vkCreateXlibSurfaceKHR You need to run export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the same terminal you run bonfire from. This path should correspond to the location that libmpv is stored. I am looking to implement a proper fix for this.

Don't forget to run dart run build_runner watch -d before developing! This is required when using freezed and riverpod.

A quick note for contributors.

We are looking for contributors! I would absolutely love to get this project completed, but it's pretty difficult time-wise. The pacing when I have time to work on it goes pretty fast though, so more people pitching in would be fantastic!