Revolt looks promising. It’s a discord clone but open source, can self host too.
TeamSpeak was never “here” in the first place, it certainly had its niche among certain gaming communities, but it - never - had as much traction as Discord does today. I am sure a design refresh is going to lure some older gamers back, but I am unconvinced it’ll even make a dent in Discord usage.
“internet thing from 20 years ago was smaller than big, VC backed social media giant from today. Therefore, thing that was defacto standard 20 years ago was never relevant” is a hell of a take
Even 20 years ago im applications with voice support had hundreds of millions of users. Msn messenger at its peak had 300 million active users.
If it has the power to kill discord, I’m all for it. But paying for servers? I don’t think that’s it, chief.
Bring back Vent cowards!
The fastest way to make me not download a particular piece of software is to invite me to join their discord to discuss questions and tech support.
Why not matrix ? (Or even XMPP)
Matrix is text only isint it?
No
No its got voice calls with jitsi implementation along with their own built in “element chat” that has been implemented or is still being tested to be implemented.
That and 1 on 1 calls work out of the box with no jitsi or element chat configuration. (Still need coturn)
Ill be real i could get that going on my end but 99% of my friends wont even try if it doesn’t work out of the box
Still run a team speak server and also run discord. Our teamspeak voice gets a ton more use but people stream on discord the game they are playing. But they still use teamspeak for voice. Because text isn’t persistent on TS we use discord for text and a web forum for long term persistence.
They each have their place. If you can make discord work for you in all cases more power to you but we couldn’t.
This ts version looks like they are trying to lose the few parts of their consumer base they have left. If we wanted discord for everything we would have already left TS.
One of my friend groups does a weird thing that I love. We use Discord for video sharing and TeamSpeak for audio while we watch stuff on a shared site. I like the disconnect because we can hop to different rooms in TeamSpeak while seeing people in discord. Sometimes people will call shots, drawing art, etc. and you’ll just see it while being in something like a “quiet convo” TS room to watch the video without drunk people talking over it. People join and you can wave to them while not having to say anything because you’re in a different room with others. It’s like a real party room kinda vibe where you can see everyone but not hear everyone and you form your little groups organically without talking over each other.
It’s niche, but I wish TS/Discord just had that natively.
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Just use Mumble!!
