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I made true friends through Ventrilo/TeamSpeak and different games (but mostly Counter-Strike). I’ve never made a phone call to a friend unless truly necessary

by outime 7y ago

I made true friends through Ventrilo/TeamSpeak and different games (but mostly Counter-Strike). I’ve never made a phone call to a friend unless truly necessary but I’ve spent several hours talking through these. Nowadays with Discord it’s just so much easier and fun for everyone. I’m happy that it was invented and just wish it was open-source but oh well.

qznc 7y ago
What is wrong with Mumble? https://www.mumble.com/ https://www.mumble.com/
- hi5eyes 7y ago
  discords communities make it more powerful than almost any site/service save maybe for irc at its peak if you’re early 20s or younger everyones on discord, even if you dont game. its a general group messaging platform
- JimiofEden 7y ago
  Lack of users in my experience. The people on mumble tend to be the 'old guard' or people who have been playing MMOs or online games since 90s/early 00s. But all of my friends or new people I've met are all on Discord only
- kazagistar 7y ago
  Discord won the bigger marketshare due to being accessible from a browser and featureful. And it's a market where marketshare winner takes all, because of the need to exchange contact information with someone you just met on a platform you share.
- ohithereyou 7y ago
  My high school/college friends and I (we've been out of school for nearly 15 years at this point) moved to Discord from Mumble. Here were our reasons why: * persistent text chat - we're spread across different time zones, and the ability to talk separated by time without having to resort to a forum is very nice, pinging someone with a question or with a reminder for our next game and anime night is really nice; having a separate space from group SMS (which we don't really use) is nice because when I'm at work I can log out of Discord and not be bothered, and if I get an SMS I know that it's something that I have to deal with now * consistent interface across mobile and desktop - it's nice to have a consistent, universal interface across desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows) and mobile (iOS and Android) versions; it's nice that there are multiple apps for Mumble, but that makes support more difficult * built in screen sharing support - see support note above * channel permissions - we have subgroups based on interest, listed in an announce channel, and people that want to join in on that discussion can, but people who are uninterested in, say, Warhammer, discussion don't even have that channel cluttering up their interface, nor do they have to explicitly mute it * push notifications - see ping above, it's nice * better bot integration - for me, anyway, it's easier to integrate bots into Discord than it is for Mumble - this is subjective Those are just the reasons I could think of off the top of my head. I would love to be able to self-host our Discord server, and if it had existed at the level of maturity that it is at now, I probably would have suggested moving to Matrix or something similar.

by outime 7y ago

qznc 7y ago

What is wrong with Mumble? https://www.mumble.com/ https://www.mumble.com/

hi5eyes 7y ago
discords communities make it more powerful than almost any site/service save maybe for irc at its peak if you’re early 20s or younger everyones on discord, even if you dont game. its a general group messaging platform
JimiofEden 7y ago
Lack of users in my experience. The people on mumble tend to be the 'old guard' or people who have been playing MMOs or online games since 90s/early 00s. But all of my friends or new people I've met are all on Discord only
kazagistar 7y ago
Discord won the bigger marketshare due to being accessible from a browser and featureful. And it's a market where marketshare winner takes all, because of the need to exchange contact information with someone you just met on a platform you share.
ohithereyou 7y ago
My high school/college friends and I (we've been out of school for nearly 15 years at this point) moved to Discord from Mumble. Here were our reasons why: * persistent text chat - we're spread across different time zones, and the ability to talk separated by time without having to resort to a forum is very nice, pinging someone with a question or with a reminder for our next game and anime night is really nice; having a separate space from group SMS (which we don't really use) is nice because when I'm at work I can log out of Discord and not be bothered, and if I get an SMS I know that it's something that I have to deal with now * consistent interface across mobile and desktop - it's nice to have a consistent, universal interface across desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows) and mobile (iOS and Android) versions; it's nice that there are multiple apps for Mumble, but that makes support more difficult * built in screen sharing support - see support note above * channel permissions - we have subgroups based on interest, listed in an announce channel, and people that want to join in on that discussion can, but people who are uninterested in, say, Warhammer, discussion don't even have that channel cluttering up their interface, nor do they have to explicitly mute it * push notifications - see ping above, it's nice * better bot integration - for me, anyway, it's easier to integrate bots into Discord than it is for Mumble - this is subjective Those are just the reasons I could think of off the top of my head. I would love to be able to self-host our Discord server, and if it had existed at the level of maturity that it is at now, I probably would have suggested moving to Matrix or something similar.