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When I still did online gaming, we'd tried a couple of different tools but the last one we settled on making everyone, even the non-tech-savvy, happy was Mumble
by toastal 5y ago
When I still did online gaming, we'd tried a couple of different tools but the last one we settled on making everyone, even the non-tech-savvy, happy was Mumble because it was lightweight, no frills, low-lag with good audio and decent detection for auto enabling and disabling voice for people (like me) that didn't like extra buttons for push-to-talk.
- Gigachad 5y agoMumble has long since falling out of favour. It’s missing most of what people consider critical features now including mobile support, good IM support, and the ability to instantly create new communities without dealing with hosting. I’d say it’s likely that most discord users are mobile or at least half.
- toastal 5y agoI won’t disagree. My anecdote was from 4–5 years ago. We’d assessed that Discord was too much for us specifically. I had used the Mumble Android app from F-Droid a time or two to communicate while on the go just to chat. As for the hosting, at the time I also had dynamic DNS and actual ISP and it was lightweight enough to self-host a room with a couple of people without issue. I think not dealing with hosting probably is a big issue for a lot of people. Monetarily the difference is small, but philosophically free vs. $2/mo is massive.
- solarkraft 5y agoMumble is great for voice chat! It’s just bad at everything else, sadly. I think modern telephony significantly profits from the ability to use video and screen share, which you just can’t do with Mumble. This is why any telephony solution I’d build would probably be based on Jitsi Meet. In case anyone’s bored: A channel based UI (similar to Mumble) for it would be rad.