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I mostly lurk here, and I know we've had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord's age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren't seasoned self-hosters, and I've still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I'm missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer's self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it's looking like I'm leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 108 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Seeing Teamspeak outlive Discord just keeps making me laugh.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago

Teamspeak lived long enough to see an exodus from Discord, but that doesn't mean Discord is dying.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"outlive" Discord is quite the exaggeration. Let's not pretend that we're not a vocal minority here, and that Discord will keep trucking just fine.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if the age verification wasn't a thing, I think the enshittification would set in eventually. So it's not going anywhere for now, but I'm pretty sure the investors will want their money back sooner or later.

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now I'm just waiting for Ventrilo and the All Seeing Eye to come back... Maybe one day I'll be able to play CoD1 mp and have weekly scrims again : (

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Don’t know if you are interested in COD UO but we have biweekly pugs every Tuesday and Sunday evening. I think the cod1 scene is pretty much like us. CoD2 seems to be the active community with a running league with like 9 teams or so.

Trying to build the community up on these old games

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd def jam UO but I'm down under and playing with ~250 ping is too shit for cod :( thanks for the invite tho, hf in ur games <3

Edit: I did see this recently, could be useful for you: https://gamedate.org/

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember the good old days of the 300 pingers either being people on dial up or Aussies getting a morning game in. Yeah it’s be hard to scrim with that ping for sure. Thanks for sharing the game date URL. It’s a nice little site, we’ve used it a few times

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you guys organize games? Discord I assume? I might be keen to jump into a pug at a weird time sometime.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, pretty much every active server on UO has one. This one is ours if you feel the fancy to hop on sometime (I go by VE_AG_RA on UO [long story])

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What’s wrong with team speak? It was a good service circa 2006. And I don’t see how it is significantly less valuable to the “gaming” community. I know it isn’t as feature rich and discord has evolved a lot from its “gamer” origins. I see it used for all kinds of community’s as a catch all system. I guess that is good, but I don’t get much value from it being a centralized point of community building.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Discord is an evolutionary culdesac if we're talking about its role as a forum killer. It's terrible for long term information storage and retrieval compared to the more permanent, and search engine indexed, forums it replaced. It's a never ending waterfall of chat messages that's hard to search, so the same questions keep coming up again and again.

I tried asking a question on Blender Guru's discord about his doughnut tutorial, on the channel specifically meant for questions about the doughnut tutorial, and it flew off the top of the screen like a barrel going over Niagara Falls, never to be seen again.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's disgusting yeah. I try to avoid projects where Discord is their only news and/or support outlet.

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Imo the biggest problem with Teamspeak is that it still requires an active connection to the server at all time.. So unless your computer is on with the app opened 24/7 you may miss messages. That may or may not be an issue, but you may miss messages that your friends send to the group when you aren't actively online.

Frankly the UI of TeamSpeak is ageing as well, and there is value in for instance being able to simply attach a screenshot directly in a Discord chat without having to upload it to some external service.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Check out the Teamspeak6 beta. I don't know about offline messages but it addresses all your other complaints. I moved to it from Mumble somewhat recently and have been very happy with it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 weeks ago

They have acknowledged the offline messaging part. It does work in group chats and has E2EE there, but I think it's something they are going to look into for servers. It's closed source, so we are at the mercy of their few developers and cannot help. While I do trust them more than Discord, I would rather have an open solution, like Stoat/Fluxer, take off instead.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago

It used to be packaged with Overwolf, that was the dealbreaker for me back then.

[–] ppb1701@ppb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago