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Anecdotal, but direct calls are pretty unusable for me. I'm on the west coast, and when I attempt calls to the east cost, it frequently cuts out. The workaround
by mooman219 9y ago
Anecdotal, but direct calls are pretty unusable for me. I'm on the west coast, and when I attempt calls to the east cost, it frequently cuts out. The workaround was just creating a server and using a voice room in it. This had drastically higher call quality. I assume this is ISP/Peering related, but to see such a night and day difference between voice channels and direct calls leads me to believe that there's something that can be done on your end.
Complaints aside, I love the service. Echoing what avree said, long term monetization worries me. I would like to see discord survive, but its story looks similar to Trello right now in terms of monetization.
- b1naryth1ef 9y agoAhhhh, thats actually something we're aware of. Currently direct calls run on an entirely separate set of metals vs. everything else (this was mostly to help us test/measure video & screenshare rollout). Unfortunately some providers seem to be having issues with DDoS filtering over-triggering when they see video traffic, which negatively impacts the whole server. Something we're hopefully fixing in the short term!