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spot on, but you missed that critically they don’t charge for free voice. If you want higher bitrate then they charge
by tekknik 5y ago
spot on, but you missed that critically they don’t charge for free voice. If you want higher bitrate then they charge
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoTrue, but you had to pay for a server for TS/Vent/Mumble as well, so the $5/month Discord charges for the higher voice quality is comparable (or cheaper). Discord is voice chat, with text as a nice extra, and with image/file sharing and screen sharing and emoji/stickers/profiles (these are attractive to some people). IRC is text only. TS/Mumble/Vent were all voice chat, with really awful text chat interfaces (TS was sort of OK, Vent may as well not have had text chat). I don't think Discord is good as an information archive, and I'm not terribly fond of seeing FOSS projects using it as a primary means of communication, but it's great for gaming compared to what we had before.