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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (4 children)

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

[–] Jarix 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Its pretty amazing for voice communication in gaming.

As a messenging app? Meh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

i get much better call quality in telegram

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

dude discord has been one of the worst experiences for voip in gaming IME. I started using mumble SOLELY because discord was actually just disappointing. Though tbf maybe if i paid out the ass for nitro it's better? I ain't paying for that though.

Though yeah, for messaging, it's dogshit, It's a mess.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't get why people like it either. It's a mess of chats.

[–] Jarix 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gamers using it for gaming. In game Voice communication is trash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And that's fine, but why do gamers use it over any other VoIP option? And why the infinity chat channels over infinity servers?

[–] Resonosity 2 points 9 months ago

Content creator branding, and "community"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really wanted to keep faith in it after the ui overhaul recently - VoIP performance was SO much better on Xbox, latency specifically. But good GOD the mobile app is just a pile of garbage nowdays. I have so many friends stuck on that platform, I still end up sharing links there to Lemmy memes and like 60% of the time when I share to the app it permenantly sticks on the splash screen??? 🙄 notifications are fucked these days too, myself & my friend group regularly miss messages entirely, even with direct @ mentions?!

Worse, I dropped a crap review and complained that function has dropped horribly since the update and the devs INSTANTLY replied like "Have you tried pretending you're a beta tester for us? Do you mind doing a buncha troubleshooting you definitely haven't already done?" (They wanted me to reinstall the app... Smh)

Anyway - fuck discord. I'm planning to shift to Revolt, but if anyone has better suggestions I'd be happy to try some!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

im genuinely surprised discord even tries testing things on the two test branches they have. Yes, you heard me correctly, they have TWO separate testing branches. Bugs literally should not exist on the stable branch.

also when it comes to voip, i've enjoyed mumble, it's pretty solid, minimal, configurable (highly integrated into games already, it's old af though so maybe not new games) and works pretty well. Revolt seems alright, but it's plagued with bugs, and weird issues, plus it's self hosting is just, jank.

We could use a self hosted discord replacement tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Reject Discord, go back to Teamspeak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

i would fuck with ts if they would release ts5 and have an actual feature release, until then mumble it is. Shit slaps, and is minimal.