Matrix has the best architecture by far. The only feature it lacks is high fps screenshare with audio. Right now its only acceptable for like a powerpoint presentation.

When the update fixing that comes it will finally be ready to fully replace discord.

it’s what other people used to be familiar with though, so that’s probably why. also - can’t you download and host your own teamspeak server? I haven’t used it in so long I can’t remember how it works haha

I’ve found it is clunky and bloated myself, but it’s slim pickins trying to cover everything users expect. Hopefully one of these add-ons makes it less… rough.

I often fall back to Molly for video chat, the quality is superior

Sticking with discord for slightly better video doesn’t sound reasonable

Iirc Ventrilo doesn’t support Linux, or it’s codecs don’t. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong!

I ended up running the element-call stack for our matrix server. Has worked great for group vid calls and screen sharing so far. I don’t think it had audio for screen shares, the only item missing from your list

Yes you can host your own team speak server on your own.

I would recommend a FLOSS alternative, to help the odds of you being able to keep it within your control. There’s a few options others have mentioned around the fediverse.

whatever happened to meeting up with your mom’s house on a bunch of folding tables in the living room

This feels like it’s happening way too soon. Sure, at the current pace I would expect an exodus from discord eventually, but I didn’t believe that there was so many proactive people on the platform.

Anyway, TeamSpeak has always been great. Discord voice can be rather unstable as you add more people to a chat, or depending on the locations of the people in it.

how do you get media isnt it only plain text?

Gosh, I hope I can survive the reputation harm that I’m suffering because a faceless person(?) on the Internet has read my comments in bad faith and slaughtering their freshly created strawmen.

Haha pointing out the wrong

“Haha, pointing”

I think you’ll survive, good day.

Those must be some big tables

Is mumble still a thing? It was the best for low latency and automatic mic pickup/ nouse cancelling back in the day.

DCC transfers direct from bots. You can do transfers, just gotta trust the source of the content.

I was wondering if it was really the software I was using for World of Warcraft in the 2000s.

Well convince my 22 friends to switch when a feature they consider critical is missing

did you just call me fat

That article is 95% uninformed FUD. I really wish people would stop listening to this self proclaimed encryption “expert” that seems only interested in posting badly researched but inflamatory blog posts and then deletes any responses from actual experts from their blog comments.