dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoDiscord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up1281arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1281arrow-down1external-linkDiscord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'www.pcgamer.comdirtmayor@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square216fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaresznio@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-21 year agoFor voice, TeamSpeak For text chat, IRC For forums, phpBB or any other forum software Discord replacing the third is the saddest. It completely isn’t fit for purpose. Part of the reason you can’t find anything on Google now is that forums died, and Discord is unsearchable.
minus-squarelivejamie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoDiscord is pretty great for video/voice chat - the things it tries to do outside of that can be frustrating. It’s miles ahead of having to use Ventrillo, Teamspeak, Skype like we had to in the past.
minus-squaresznio@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoDiscord voice quality is significantly worse than TS3, and it has way less features actually related to voice chatting. As for Vent and especially Skype, it’s an improvement.
For voice, TeamSpeak
For text chat, IRC
For forums, phpBB or any other forum software
Discord replacing the third is the saddest. It completely isn’t fit for purpose. Part of the reason you can’t find anything on Google now is that forums died, and Discord is unsearchable.
Discord is pretty great for video/voice chat - the things it tries to do outside of that can be frustrating.
It’s miles ahead of having to use Ventrillo, Teamspeak, Skype like we had to in the past.
Discord voice quality is significantly worse than TS3, and it has way less features actually related to voice chatting.
As for Vent and especially Skype, it’s an improvement.