Revolt chat rebranded to Stoat due to trademark issues

2025-10-03
Just to make this abundantly clear, we received a cease & desist against our use of the name ‘Revolt’, we are not releasing any further details as this may cause harassment of the other party and may hurt negotiations.

I apologise for the way this ended up being handled, we will do better in the future.

I intend to write up a postmorterm within the next week to explain what went wrong and what I’m doing to ensure it won’t happen again.

We will also be following up with further developer guidance soon, in the mean time existing APIs should continue to work or automatically provide the new endpoints, please let us know if you’re having issues!

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Remember when you first found us? That feeling of “finally, a platform that gets it”? We’re about to give you that feeling all over again.

Revolt is now Stoat.

Before you panic: your servers are still there. Your friends are waiting. Your deep fried emoji remain intact. And we’ll keep being what we always were: a chat app where you are the main character¹, not executives or shareholders.

Stoat Hits Different

When we started this journey, we were rebels. We wanted to revolt against boring, corporate platforms that didn’t understand what real communities needed. That mission hasn’t changed one bit. We’ve grown alongside you. Late-night gaming sessions and study groups, meme exchanges, meaningful conversations. With Voice Chats 2.0² around the corner, we suddenly need to be all that.

We can’t just be rebels anymore. We also want to be builders, creators, connectors. The place where your 3am thoughts find their people. Where your weirdest interests become your strongest friendships. Where chaos and community collide in the best possible way.

The stoat, an animal native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America, represents everything we’ve become together: quick, clever, unexpectedly powerful, and absolutely impossible to ignore. Like our new and first mascot (yes, of course, also a stoat!), which we’ll be sharing in due time, we’re small but mighty, playful but purposeful. We do things with agility, creating spaces where you can be authentically, unapologetically you.

What’s Actually Changing?

1 🏷️ The Name

Our name is now Stoat. Our primary domain is now stoat.chat. Our handle is @stoatchat³. Server invite links are at stt.gg. There are more changes that will be documented in due time—developers should stay tuned for announcements coming soon.

2 🎨 Fresh Visual Identity (Rolling out in phases)

Let’s be honest, right now you’re looking at the previous Revolt website with a purple paint job, maybe lime sometimes, and with a placeholder icon. We are aware. The full visual transformation is coming, including our very awesome mascot that’s in the very process of being brought to life. What you see right now is more of a announcement-level soft launch before the real launch.

3 🚀 Same Foundation, Better Everything

Your servers, messages, friends, …? They’re all exactly where you left them. They’re even on the same platform. We just changed names.

Questions, But Answered

“Do I need to do anything?”
Absolutely not. Your login works exactly the same. Your communities are untouched. The only thing you need to do is tell as many people as possible.

“Right… Why the rebrand really?”
Every growing platform reaches a moment where it needs to “level up” in a way. Decisions made at day one don’t always work at day 1461, even if this fact often isn’t visible on the outside. In this case, let’s just say that sometimes the universe makes decisions for you. Between some trademark considerations and our desire to better represent our platform, all possible timing was perfect right now, right here.

“Is the team the same?”
Yes. 100%. Same developers, same community team, same people who’ve been building this thing and listening to your feedback since the first day. We just have cooler business cards now. That was a metaphor, we haven’t printed business cards yet. But if we did, they would look cool.

Road Ahead

This rebrand isn’t just about a new name or fresh colors. It’s actually a statement of intent. We’re committing to:

• Release MORE features FASTER based on your actual requests (somehow a wild concept)
• Better CREATOR TOOLS for those that build communities
• Continued OPERATIONAL INDEPENDENCE from the big US based companies where feasible in the current year
• A pledge to PRIVACY notably still bound to GDPR and previous commitments
• Increased focus on ACCESSIBILITY to make sure everyone can use Stoat

No, we’re not trying to be everything to everyone. That was never the goal, and it’s not possible to do. What we’re building is the perfect platform for people who really get it. People like you who value apps that value them, while also being usable.

So Join Us in Writing the Next Chapter

Change can be weird. We get it. Humans are wired to think this way⁴. But sometimes the best things come from embracing the chaos and seeing where it takes us. Stoat isn’t just our new name, it’s a promise. A promise to keep pushing boundaries, to keep your communities at the heart of every decision, and to never, ever become one of those soulless platforms.

One more thing:

Let’s make some chaos together. Welcome to Stoat.