another update has hit the underresearched blog post

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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <title>isopod.cool blog</title>
     <id>https://isopod.cool/blog/</id>
     <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/blog/"></link>
-    <updated>2026-02-15T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+    <updated>2026-02-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
     <author>
         <name>Hannah Isopod</name>
         <uri>https://isopod.cool/me/</uri>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         <id>discord2</id>
         <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/discord2/" type="html" title="Trying to Escape Discord: 2026 Edition"></link>
         <published>2026-02-09T00:00:00+00:00</published>
-        <updated>2026-02-15T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
+        <updated>2026-02-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
         <summary>In light of recent developments, here's this sort of knee-jerk write-up on every alternative to Discord I could come up with that's halfway worth considering.</summary>
         <category term="discord"/>
         <category term="capitalism"/>
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@@ -48,34 +48,11 @@ The best way I can describe Zulip is as a forum but with Discord vibes. It's a b
 
 The main downside with Zulip is that it's got some limitations unless you pay for a subscription (although let's be real, so does Discord), but they will seemingly waive that for open-source projects and in some other cases, and you can self-host it to get rid of most of those limitations if that's up your alley.
 
-# [Fluxer](https://fluxer.app/)
-
-<p class="h2caption">Added on Feb 13</p>
-
-I learned about this one a few days after initially publishing this article from a shitpost on Tumblr and felt it warranted a mention. Fluxer seems like a *suspiciously* complete Discord clone, complete with voice, video, a nearly identical UI, and a premium subscription that closely resembles Discord Nitro.
-
-According to their website, Fluxer is developed by a Swedish company, is open-source with explicit support for self-hosting the official backend, and has an extensive roadmap of planned features, some of which are completely unheard of over in Discord land.
-
-**[Further update, Feb 15]** I created an account to poke around on it, and it took about a day for my registration to be approved:
-
-<figure class="media">
-  <img src="manualreview.png" alt="Message indicating that my Fluxer registration is pending manual review due to a substantial influx of new users, and that I will be notified once my account is approved.">
-  <figcaption>Fair enough, honestly. They probably weren't planning for Discord to have a scandal during their public beta.</figcaption>
-</figure>
-
-Now that I'm in, the first thing I've noticed is that the interface is *extremely* similar to Discord, more so than you're probably expecting. They got a lot of the smaller details pretty spot on.
-
-I'm pretty impressed with what I'm seeing beyond that, as well: There's a good amount of polish, and it's even got a lot of the familiar Fun Features like custom emojis and the gif picker that have probably become foundational to the way you communicate online. Voice, video and screenshare are quite distinctly up and running, though I can't speak to their reliability without a friend or six to test them with. Not every bug has been ironed out, but there is a *shockingly* complete product here.
-
-One of my favourite small touches is that not only is this the only one of these alternatives with a dedicated pronouns field, it also lets you change the contents of said field on a per-guild basis. As someone who makes extensive use of this feature on Discord, I'm very happy to see that.
-
-Fluxer is quickly becoming the favourite for me on a product quality basis &mdash; it's doing what Stoat is trying to do, but executing it faster and better, a feat that's especially impressive considering its public Github repo has exactly two contributors &mdash; though only time will tell if either service is trustworthy. Strong recommend so far. There's unfortunately no native mobile app, but both this and the next entry have PWAs.
-
 # [Osmium](https://osmium.chat/)
 
 <p class="h2caption">Added on Feb 15</p>
 
-A third mostly-functional Discord clone has hit the clearly under-researched blog post.
+Starting to think I was too quick on the draw publishing this a week ago.
 
 Osmium advertises itself as a "globally distributed community messaging and voice/video platform" with encryption "both in transit and at rest". What "distributed" means in this context beyond, like, the extremely standard practice of having servers in multiple countries isn't made clear, but the voice and video part seems to actually be fully up and running (looking at you, Stoat) and to their credit they do acknowledge that "encrypted both in transit and at rest" is different from end-to-end encrypted.
 
@@ -93,7 +70,7 @@ That said, I'm getting the best vibes off of this project on, like, a social lev
   <img src="osmiumw.png" alt="Message from Folf responding to a request for &quot;some kind of like pluralkit alternative built in&quot; by saying &quot;this is planned in the future&quot; and then &quot;one part of the bot API will be to allow bots to set a name/avatar per message&quot;">
 </figure>
 
-Osmium probably isn't up to snuff for most yet, but I'm rooting for it. If you're just looking for a place for your group chat full of highly-online queers and can tolerate a bit of jank, this may just be for you.
+Osmium probably isn't up to snuff for most yet, but I'm rooting for it. If you're just looking for a place for your group chat full of highly-online queers and can tolerate a bit of jank, this may just be for you. No mobile app, but there is a PWA.
 
 # Honorable Mentions
 
@@ -181,6 +158,22 @@ LOL. LMAO. RIP BOZO
 
 Look, I'll use it if everyone goes there I *guess*, but I get the distinct impression that by and large these platforms would be *more* hostile to the outspoken presence of my ilk than Discord is trying to become. Also, the vibes are rancid, so I'd rather not.
 
+## [Fluxer](https://fluxer.app/)
+
+<p class="h2caption">Added on Feb 13</p>
+
+I learned about this one a few days after initially publishing this article from a shitpost on Tumblr and felt it warranted a mention. Fluxer seems like a *suspiciously* complete Discord clone, complete with voice, video, a nearly identical UI, and a premium subscription that closely resembles Discord Nitro.
+
+According to their website, Fluxer is developed by a Swedish company, is open-source with explicit support for self-hosting the official backend, and has an extensive roadmap of planned features, some of which are completely unheard of over in Discord land.
+
+**[Further update, Feb 16]** I created an account to poke around on it, and once my registration was approved about a day later (fair enough, they've probably seen a huge influx of users lately) I had fairly positive initial impressions, that I initially had here &mdash; I called it *suspiciously* complete up there, and apparently that was foreshadowing! Check out this initial commit date:
+
+<figure class="media">
+  <img src="vibecodedalert.png" alt="Screenshot of the initial Github commit for Fluxer, indicating that it's from January 1, 2026.">
+</figure>
+
+One does not simply build something like this in a month and a half. Especially not with TWO whole contributors to the official Github repo. This REEKS of vibe-coding, so badly that I no longer feel comfortable recommending it.
+
 ## [DCTS](https://github.com/hackthedev/dcts-shipping)
 
 <p class="h2caption">Added on Feb 15</p>
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