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- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 6 hours ago:
Yeah. It sucks, but discord replaced irc+mumble for damn good reasons. I just wish that the open source clients had the features that discord does.
- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 6 hours ago:
I'm hoping xep-0503 gets implemented in a couple xmpp clients at some point soon. That'll make xmpp have feature parity with discord, except for ease of use, which is a barrier I'm willing to help friends/family work through in order to never have to switch chat clients ever again, since xmpp has been around for nearly thirty years now.
- Comment on Discord announced a revamped global age verification system 6 hours ago:
This isn't targeted at you, zen_shinobi, specifically, but you are the latest example of one of my pet peeves, so I'm replying here.
Mumble doesn't have text channels.
Everytime time I see a discord alternative proposed it always has at least one major feature missing. Discord isn't just popular because it has almost always works out of the box, but because it has every single feature a communication platform could want. This makes it incredibly easy to use in practically every context.
Iphones revolutionized the phone space because they combined PDAs and cell phones in a very easy to use package, not because they did something completely new.
Discord combined video, audio, AND text into an incredibly easy to use package, and became the biggest chat platform in the world because of it.
Nothing is an entirely valid discord alternative until it has feature parity, including ease of use and compatibility, and I haven't found a single alternative that does that yet. (And isn't vibecoded slop, venture funded, incredibly early alpha, difficult or impossible to set up or even connect to, or some combination of the previous).
Gamevox is a new option I'm seeing, but it's also for profit, and I'm sick and tired of switching software just to see it get sold to a vc company and enshittified right underneath me.