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We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it's gonna get real shitty, real fast.
Mumble?
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
Matrix is still pretty jank
how come?
(currently dont have the energy to look into replacing that too with all the other services im already in transition)
UI/UX is just miserable at times, sometimes the client crashes if you've seen too many image/videos. The account creation and device pairing is jank as hell, took me more than 15 min to pair a new because the verification kept failing. Just overall i can bear with the jankiness but if i was an average user, I'd quit.
teamspeak are also stepping up their game ive heard
The comeback. I paid for a teamsorak server when I was a teen and used it extensively with friends for many years. As I got older I have only used discord a handful of times to talk to other people already on that platform. Discord has always sucked Imo, if it's free you're the product. That's how it always has been.
I hope it gets even more shit so people will leave the platform.
Sorry, what is a IPO ?
Initial Public Offering.
Its where a company offers stock for public sale, and gets listed on the stock market.
Generally this corresponds with a company pushing hard to maximize profits over other metrics like user growth.
Thank you
Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!
... For the pilot.
Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!
I feel like it's been shitty for a decade.. personal view though, clearly people like it
Edit: well, for almost 10 years, maybe 9.
The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.
Yess, thank you. Ugly, slow, frustrating. And pay to make it bearable...
Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.
You can wait right?
It is the LEAST intuitive UI of any popular app I've ever seen. I was recently trying to join a channel from a website that required a code to input, and absolutely couldn't get it to work.
I HATE the UI. It was made for iPad babies.
It isn't even a decade old... anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.
It's the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.
From a functional perspective it's fantastic but it doesn't make up for the incessant ads (even if you pay) and the lack of any privacy whatsoever.
Are you talking about the ads for nitro?
I don't even remember exactly what they were for, but yes, that's one of them.
Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.
https://wego.here.com/
Edit: one interesting thing about their mobile app is when you use the GPS for directions, it changes where the audio comes from depending on what your next direction is. If your next is "turn left" then the instructions come from your left-side car audio.
Revolt?
https://revolt.chat/
It's open source too.
We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?
Oh wow, it can get shittier?
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You’ve got upper management written all over you.
Close!
I used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn't even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.
After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak...
I left for greener pastures.
(not Discord lol. did contract db admin type work for MSFT for a bit, then said executive reports for a massive import export firm... then nonprofits, serving the homeless)
Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don't understand the problem why people dont use it
You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.
We need fast voice chat though, i play tournaments for cs2 and apex legends. Haven't tested jitsi speed yet vs ts3 or mumble, which was the main reason we never used discord to start with
I must admit I've never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.
I already left, enjoy it for me.