Discord gets $5/Month sub, Everything is still free, it just gives you bonuses
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[QUOTE=glitchvid;51575612]Murmur/Mumble is the king of quality+latency, only thing TS3 has better is platform maturity. Also Mumble is free and open, so that's nice for 50+ groups of people.[/QUOTE]
Prettier too with the beta version at least and pretty skinnable either way if you're a vain faggot
like me
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51574506]I would use TS3 any day of the week over Discord having used both. The only thing that is handy about Discord is that it is all web based, no installs, and it "just works" (sometimes, not always). But then, almost everyone I know that uses Discord uses the client and not the web version, so I don't get why they would choose it over TS.
I will say that the Discord API is pretty neat and I could do some cool things with it. While TS3's auth system is so fucking stupid for what it's use is.[/QUOTE]
It definitely has a much better better text chat and UI but the terrible voice quality, lack of linked voice/text channels, poor performance, and for some lack of privacy really kill it imo.
It's so much easier for someone to join a discord server as well. You just send someone a link and they're in.
When they fix the voice attenuation bug that turns down my volume to 0 I will gladly pay them some money
I may actually pay for this. Discord has been amazing for me, and I'd definitely love to give back in some capacity.
As long as they don't shove in ads, or take away basic features anyway.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;51571684]My biggest issue with Discord is that it's impossible to create private channels similar to Teamspeak. I want the ability to have a channel where I can put on a password, and only certain people can get in, and then be able to see the chatlogs and the like.
The reason for this is quiet simple, if you are say playing GModRP, it's impossible to share private information with the current Discord. It just simply doesn't work out.[/QUOTE]
Make a channel that only allows a certain role, and give the people you want to join that role.
I have a private channel on my Discord that works that way.
[QUOTE=StonedPenguin;51575667]It definitely has a much better better text chat and UI but the terrible voice quality, lack of linked voice/text channels, poor performance, and for some lack of privacy really kill it imo.[/QUOTE]
I really want to stress how fucking awful the token system for TS3 auth is.
And how pants on head retarded the devs were for forcing that as the only option. Or any option at all...
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51576292]I really want to stress how fucking awful the token system for TS3 auth is.
And how pants on head retarded the devs were for forcing that as the only option. Or any option at all...[/QUOTE]
You should see the next version
Optional myteamspeak
Sync your identities, bookmakers, plugins/settings online
I have no use for it, but I bet everyone here can understand why they've decided to invest time on this feature
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51576797]You should see the next version
Optional myteamspeak
Sync your identities, bookmakers, plugins/settings online
I have no use for it, but I bet everyone here can understand why they've decided to invest time on this feature[/QUOTE]
I always run the beta client, and what they are doing now seems completely contradictory to what they have been preaching all along. "No user/pass auth, too insecure". But now they will store your tokens behind that very system? Just give us the username and password auth options back like TS2 had.
Discord might be kinda bare bones with some aspects, but at least users can log in to their accounts without a fucking INI file being imported.
[QUOTE=Revenge282;51576835]I always run the beta client, and what they are doing now seems completely contradictory to what they have been preaching all along. "No user/pass auth, too insecure". But now they will store your tokens behind that very system? Just give us the username and password auth options back like TS2 had.
Discord might be kinda bare bones with some aspects, but at least users can log in to their accounts without a fucking INI file being imported.[/QUOTE]
I don't use a discord account, I just copy off my fingerprint/token for auth less logins, which is needed since no email
It's stored in localStorage, anyone on your computer can easily take this, unsure of if it bypasses 2fa, but my look at the source code pointed it to login without issue.
Rooted my phone to login
[t]https://a.pomf.cat/meufuq[/t] (snipped)
idk TS/Mumble always seemed to only be useful for gamers or punctual comms, Discord feels like slack but made to work for everyone (aka a competitor to skype), I think only Slack and any Matrix-based software can truly compete with discord
5 bucks for features that should be free, no thanks
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;51577735]5 bucks for features that should be free, no thanks[/QUOTE]
I mean literally everything else (including the servers, the most important part) are free.
From a functional point of view this complaint doesn't make a lot of sense.
A 5 dollar one time purchase would be reasonable for those meager features, but a sub for that little?
nah.
[QUOTE=phygon;51577776]A 5 dollar one time purchase would be reasonable for those meager features, but a sub for that little?
nah.[/QUOTE]
Eh.. I don't think you really get the point or you didn't watched the video/read the OP.
The monthly subscription is to [I]support[/I] Discord in its further development. In return they can keep the core features free while providing small extras for the users who care about Discord.
A one time 5$ fee isn't really gonna keep Discord alive for a very long time
$5/month for what amounts to mostly additional cosmetic features is fine. It's if they started limiting the amount of rooms and users that it will tow the line for me.
Speaking of alternative chat clients (since you guys just started talking about Teamspeak out of nowhere), anyone remember Tox? I wonder what's been going on with that recently?
Used a VPN to buy this, the cross-server custom emoji needs more thought. It lets you use any custom emotes from any server you're in globally, meaning I could just stroll up in any server (that hasn't role restricted emotes) and post this:
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/224818271235473410/262263373134036993/unknown.png[/img]
Can't wait for goatsemoji raids.
Isn't the whole point of not allowing cross-server emoji to prevent it from being abused? Why can you now pay money so you can potentially abuse it?
[editline]24th December 2016[/editline]
The other 2 things are kind of understandable (not particularly sure about the upload filesize limit increase though, they said paid features would only be cosmetic iirc) but cross-server custom emoji should really be either not allowed at all or something everyone can do in my opinion.
Could work if it was enabled for everyone but server admins or moderators could restrict certain emojis or block certain people from using them.
I'd love to be able to support them, Discord is a great program, but god damn they need to rethink the incentives.
[QUOTE=ZeroTimesCookie;51578355]Used a VPN to buy this, the cross-server custom emoji needs more thought. It lets you use any custom emotes from any server you're in globally, meaning I could just stroll up in any server (that hasn't role restricted emotes) and post this:
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/224818271235473410/262263373134036993/unknown.png[/img]
Can't wait for goatsemoji raids.[/QUOTE]
What's stopping you from linking goatse and having it preview anyway
[QUOTE=Rahu X;51577963]
Speaking of alternative chat clients (since you guys just started talking about Teamspeak out of nowhere), anyone remember Tox? I wonder what's been going on with that recently?[/QUOTE]
It's still active, but adoption isn't great. On the desktop there are better programs, and on mobile Signal is very popular.
IMHO XMPP is the best, it has a great mobile client (conversations), and a number of good to OK desktop clients (Pidgin, Jitsi). It's not DHT based like Tox, but it's an open standard with complete federation; think E-mail but instead of sucking, it's pretty good. And if you want total forward secrecy it's possible via plugins (OTR).
[QUOTE=darth-veger;51577831]
A one time 5$ fee isn't really gonna keep Discord alive for a very long time[/QUOTE]
Makes me wonder how the 20 million from Tencent had been used since February. It would be bonkers to say it's running low
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51579258]Makes me wonder how the 20 million from Tencent had been used since February. It would be bonkers to say it's running low[/QUOTE]
Even if it's not running low now it's going to eventually.
[QUOTE=phygon;51578722]What's stopping you from linking goatse and having it preview anyway[/QUOTE]
Embed rules
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;51577735]5 bucks for features that should be free, no thanks[/QUOTE]
admit it you just want the entire service to be free forever regardless of how sustainable that is for them
[QUOTE=Wii60;51571486]audit logs for moderation[/QUOTE]
thank fucking god
[editline]24th December 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51571566][t]http://imagenes.es.sftcdn.net/es/scrn/32000/32023/3_xfire1.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
man xfire was horrible even for the time but for some reason every fucking person used that shit
[QUOTE=Ott;51579350]Embed rules[/QUOTE]
Can't servers block custom emojis anyway? If you want to block embeds then you could easily just block emojis too.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51579358]admit it you just want the entire service to be free forever regardless of how sustainable that is for them[/QUOTE]
honestly, as soon as discord gets bloated and goes down the shitter, some other service will pop up and everyone will jump over to that. if nothing else pops up, then everyone will just scatter back to skype, mumble, teamspeak, ventrillo, and lord knows what else. in a world of free chat clients, yeah, i want to use one that's free.
I mean honestly, what do you expect? All anyone wants out of these programs is to be able to chat with their buds. The life cycle of a chat client is pretty predictable. Remember when everyone used AIM? But then something better came along and we all realized AIM sucked. The same thing happened with MSN messenger, with xfire, with skype, with ventrillo, and someday it'll happen with discord. Discord is just the popular one right now, and in a few years, it'll be bloated, and a few years after that, we'll all be using something better.
And yet somehow, none of these clients ever eeked a penny out of me, and none of them ever will in the future either. All I want, and all most everyone wants, is just to chat with their buds. Everything else is just icing on an admittedly simple cake. If you think anyone genuinely cares about the sustainability of this year's popular chat client, you're joking.
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