Building an open source alternative to Discord after yesterday's announcement that all users will need to submit face scans or government ID.

Townhall is free, self-hostable, no ads, no AI, no tracking. Just chat.

I'm solo and this is early days, the code is on GitHub but before I go all in I want to see if this is something people actually want. If this sounds like something youd use, signing up for the waitlist at townhall.chat would mean a lot and help me decide if this is worth pursuing.

Happy to answer any questions