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i can't even get discord working for what its supposed to be good at: chatting with one friend while we play a multiplayer game together "can you hear me? I ca

i can't even get discord working for what its supposed to be good at: chatting with one friend while we play a multiplayer game together "can you hear me? I can hear you but not the game? ok now i can hear the game but not you? ok now i can hear the game bleeding through your mic? did you set up a virtual audio cable? is your mic patched through correctly?" every single time. sometimes i just want to scroll reddit with friends, or watch a part of a dvd with friends, or play pubg mobile with friends, but i dont want to break out a display splitter and ask them to log in to a centralized service and accept an endless barrage of cookie banners and "Do you accept our new terms?" checkboxes and watch ads just to watch some memes with me (after i spend 30 minutes figuring out how their API changed so i can keep streaming the way i figured out how to already do it without issues just last week) why cant i just send my pixels to my friends via bittorrent or some other protocol

MichaelZuo 3y ago
Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose? Back in the day Teamspeak or mumble were hassle free.
- jareklupinski 3y ago
  it definitely used to be easier, i have a distinct memory of us being able to stream No Man's Sky around launch day to each other with sound mixing being handled automagically by discord with no hassle (we wanted to see if we could see each other if we stood at the same place at the same time (we couldn't)) teamspeak and mumble were definitely easier to start up and use once you get up and running the first time, i think i remember having to either install drivers or something else to get stuff like global push-to-speak and other core features to work
- squigz 3y ago
  > Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose? In my experience, Discord is no more or less buggy than Teamspeak or Mumble

MichaelZuo 3y ago

Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose? Back in the day Teamspeak or mumble were hassle free.

jareklupinski 3y ago
it definitely used to be easier, i have a distinct memory of us being able to stream No Man's Sky around launch day to each other with sound mixing being handled automagically by discord with no hassle (we wanted to see if we could see each other if we stood at the same place at the same time (we couldn't)) teamspeak and mumble were definitely easier to start up and use once you get up and running the first time, i think i remember having to either install drivers or something else to get stuff like global push-to-speak and other core features to work
squigz 3y ago
> Is it really that difficult to use discord for it’s original intended purpose? In my experience, Discord is no more or less buggy than Teamspeak or Mumble