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How about good’ol IRC?

• Mashimo 8mo ago
  Fun, until you want to share an image and have to upload it to a 3rd party, have to explain what a bouncer is to someone who just wants offline messages and AFAIK voice and video chat is not possible. Client dependent, but channel overview per server is also not that good.
• jagermo 8mo ago
  No voice chat.
  • opan 8mo ago
    IRC + Mumble is a good combo in my experience. I only fire up Mumble as-needed since I tend to prefer text chat.
    • jagermo 8mo ago
      i agree, but you need your people to have 2 logins. Great for friend groups, not working in scale.
      • opan 8mo ago
        Neither one strictly requires a login AFAIK, actually. You can chat with an unregistered nick on IRC, and Mumble has certs, but I think they're optional and don't have associated passwords.