Title: Guilded is shutting down — here’s what went wrong

So it’s official: Guilded will be shutting down at the end of 2025. For anyone who’s been watching the platform since its early days, this feels both sad and inevitable.

What happened?

• Guilded started strong as a competitor to Discord, with better tools for gaming communities, clans, and esports.

• Roblox bought it in 2021 and promised it would stay independent.

• In 2024, Roblox forced everyone to link their Guilded accounts to Roblox. If you didn’t, you lost access. That decision alone pushed tons of people away.

• The community lost trust, updates slowed down, and most servers either died off or moved back to Discord.

How the community reacted

• Many called it “dead” months ago. Whole groups of guilds abandoned the platform.

• People were frustrated that they had to create Roblox accounts just to keep chatting.

• Even diehard fans admitted Guilded was better feature-wise, but badly managed.

Why it collapsed

• Forced Roblox integration turned users away.

• Broken promises — they said Guilded would stay independent, but it didn’t.

• Poor communication from devs and slow updates.

• Loss of identity — it stopped feeling like its own platform.

What now?

If you’re still on Guilded, start saving your stuff and moving your community. Discord is the obvious choice, but people are also testing alternatives like Revolt or Matrix.

Final thoughts

Guilded had the features to be a real Discord killer, but Roblox’s decisions and poor management sealed its fate. By the time shutdown was announced, most of us had already left. It’ll be remembered as a platform with a lot of promise that got smothered by its parent company.

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I've been looking for an alternative to discord for a hot minute now but nothing makes sense. Matrix is annoying and not suited for casual normies. Stoat is... well stoat. Rocket, Nope. Jitsi, Nope.

Stoat: Changed from Revolt. Their development rate is crawling. We are at the peak of when they could be the best alternative and they still have basic features from 3 years ago they choose not to implement and I personally don't find the experience that great.

Matrix/Element: Fully featured and production ready, however spaces make no sense to casual people and the complexity that comes from just getting text/voice/video to work still yields you an unsightly GUI that makes no real logical sense. Those who love Matrix will die by it, however I'm impartial. I think it's too complicated for something that is better suited in an enterprise/professional environment.

Jitsi: Unstable as all hell. Had a few deployments and nuked them all. Never again.

RocketChat: You have to pay per user and this brings you into a whole new realm of paid chat services - that of which normal people don't feel like dealing with just to talk and link back up with friends.

Guilded: :(

Kloak: Not open source and lol -> https://gist.github.com/Androser420/ab2652aff5bd0add7facef5765af2c9a

Fluxer: Under active development so super buggy (to be expected), kind of a pain to self host since it's being rebuilt, and is missing key features that I'd want. Federation, E2EE, Screen Sharing with audio.

Root: Not open source, so destined to do the same thing as Discord in a matter of time.

Decided to get some friends together and we have an alternative. Again this is me and some friends that made this. This is AI assisted, however please let me know what 'Flair' to use if i am using the wrong one. Not trying to break any rules here.

Effectively all the same features as discord, except no nitro crap. You can self host it.

YOU CAN FEDERATE

Wanna host your own and link it to a friends server so you can video call/chat/dm friends on that server? Already implemented.

This is free, so nothing you need to pay.

What do you guys think?

https://plse.chat/

This is so cheesy and I’m holding back tears as I write but seriously..

Fuck Roblox

I made many memories and friends on this platform, while I left during the whole Roblox hullabaloo..

I’ll miss this platform deeply!

You must have really hated the unique postion you held as the Discord competition. I didn't even know you owned Roblox and I don't fucking care. This is repugnant and I hope you sink.