Technology

Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.

I've only ever used it in browser to limit what it can see on my machine. I was told by one of my coding professors that one of the signs of a virus is if it monitors what apps you're running, I've been cautious ever since of anything that does that (obviously it isn't the only sign and isn't instant virus bin, like I have an app that monitors GPU usage and throttles apps to keep from cooking my machine)

Hopefully those FOSS projects will gain some sense as discord becomes more shit and will leave. One can hope.

ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It's become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

For now. I'm quite sure that option will disappear at some point in the not too distant future.

Sure, but you really expect that option to stay available for very long after 90% of users turn it off and ruin it's profitability?

usually at first you can do such, and later on, when a ceo wants more money, you then can buy that together with the new "pro" features actually nobody needs nor wants.

maybe better look for more stable solutions before they start acting like a broadcom ;-)

Does IRC do voice nowadays? I think that is the main reason people use Discord

Compared to Matrix, or any E2EE chat, this doesn't sound good:

we take your privacy very seriously. And with end-to-end encryption coming to DMs and group chats soon

Compared to Discord, or other established voice chat systems like Mumble, this doesn't sound great either:

We are currently rebuilding the client and the voice server from scratch. The old voice should work in most cases, but it may inexplicably not connect in some scenarios and / or exhibit weird behaviour.

The "app" on Android seems to be just the webapp running in a standalone window.

I'll concede them the OpenSource and self-hosted factors, and it does look like Discord, but it doesn't seem like a suitable replacement for average users... yet. Then again, the ads might push them over.

Guess it's worth to keep an eye on it.

so this Revolt project is open source, which is nice, but still seems to rely on centralized servers. Does it use P2P for voice+video+fileshare so that the original devs aren't on the hook for insane bandwidth requirements? I can't see anything about their networking systems in the FAQ or info pages.

I may consider getting my friends to switch sooner or later if it's more P2P based. But I don't really want something that runs ALL traffic through central servers, because the bandwidth costs will inevitably just lead to the same situation that Discord is now in.

Oh cool there's an Android app, that's gonna make it so much easier to recommend!

Edit: I just read about how it's centralized and not encrypted, I'm not sure how this can become anything but Discord except open source and less popular. Matrix + Element seems to cover my use case for a project a bit better, I'll give that a try.

What made you choose revolt chat over matrix? Just curious.

Oh, this looks great. Honestly, I am very happy when closed-source apps become worse, these are all just opportunities for open source to move in and take over.

Yes, but mumble. Fuck that discord noise and back to the old ways.

TeamSpeak has always been better tbh. For actual gaming voice chat discord actually sucks, it's low bitrate and very high latency. It's benefit was just easy coordination in larger servers without the need to constantly self-host and self-manage your own server like TS.