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Discord really is a high quality service. I remember a friend of mine in either late 2015 or early 2016 told us to give it a shot instead of Skype. This is the
by jjice 6y ago
Discord really is a high quality service. I remember a friend of mine in either late 2015 or early 2016 told us to give it a shot instead of Skype. This is the same friend that tried to get us to use Mumble and Teamspeak in the past, but we were dissatisfied with the audio quality. We gave it a shot and never went back.
Now, however, I've been very interested in open source alternatives. Not to make them take over, but as a backup option to have around. I think Matrix with Jitsi Bridge for video and audio is the current leading self-hosted alternative, but nothing beats the convenience of Discord.
If there comes a time where Discord gets hit with some anti-privacy/serious censorship issues, then I'll really dive into the alternatives, but for now, they really do a great job (not to mention their medium blog is very interesting).
- judge2020 6y agoMatterbridge[0] is also a good solution for backing up your text chats to a service of your choosing. 0: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
- n3dm 6y ago>Discord really is a high quality service. -Lots of server downtime -Obnoxious amount of system resource use -Crashing -Bugs -Forced updates -Privacy concerns. (Scans your open processes, etc) Some of us can agree to disagree.
- TameAntelope 6y agoI have literally zero of those issues, so I'm curious why our experiences are so far apart... From my perspective, it's the best run communication platform on the Internet, bar none. If that's my view, then why do you have such trouble with it? What's pulling our experiences into such different directions?
- pessimizer 6y agoI've enjoyed using discord, but I also have all of these issues. You'd have to ask the software why it's nicer to you than us, and why it didn't by default exfiltrate the names of unrelated programs you had open.
- jeltz 6y agoI run it on Linux, maybe that is the difference. Discord segfaults for me quite regularly and is in general quite buggy.
- EamonnMR 6y agoI don't know if Skype got better but back when the universal switch to discord began, skype was very bad. It also crashed, it also had bugs, and its VOIP quality was poor (better than Adobe Connect or the stuff you'd see shipping with a AAA game, but still poor.)
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- Shared404 6y agoMy D&D group and I have been very satisfied with Element/Matrix/Jitsi, YMMV of course.