Spacebar.chat (or github here) is meant to be a drop-in replacement with support for discord bots, but it has been super alpha the few times I’ve tried it. Haven’t checked in for a few months though!
(Edit: yeah I just checked and spacebar is still very much a work in progress. Looks extremely promising though!! It seems there are devs posting updates on the main spacebar instance, which is cool)
Rocket.chat also has a self hostable option, but I don’t recall that one being super great either.
This 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.
It has had one, TeamSpeak 5 and now they are adding screen-sharing with TeamSpeak 6. I think they would have held a good market if they worked on an upgrade sooner, they only released a beta for TS5 once Discord had gotten super popular. If they were more proactive I think most of us would be using TeamSpeak instead now. It’s just borderline impossible to convince people to move service.
Id swap but it’s not comparable yet sadly. Hopefully ts6server is released soon.
Sadly I won’t get to use it as my friends won’t swap unless the mobile app works well. If the ts3 app works together with a ts6 server. Maybe.
What are some alternatives for discord??
Spacebar.chat (or github here) is meant to be a drop-in replacement with support for discord bots, but it has been super alpha the few times I’ve tried it. Haven’t checked in for a few months though!
(Edit: yeah I just checked and spacebar is still very much a work in progress. Looks extremely promising though!! It seems there are devs posting updates on the main spacebar instance, which is cool)
Rocket.chat also has a self hostable option, but I don’t recall that one being super great either.
Matrix is the main one I think
Matrix is great but it’s got the same problem as every other communication service, it’s only useful when other people are on it.
I use it and encourage my friends to but they just look at me like I’m crazy
Matrix also isn’t great, tbh. Way to much complexity baked into the protocol which makes the UX horrid
This 100%. Calling is also super iffy in my experience (element / schildichat), and group calls are a non-starter, since it outsources them to a separate service, jitsi, embedded inside the element client.
Team speak but that shit wont fly with Genz
It does the job though.
If group is private ie people you actually know, then just use signal it works fine enough
Look, the lesson here is not to be bullied by corporate asshats, and they always do this.
So might as well pick an open source service like mumble/murmur.
(i never understood why there was this big migration from teamspeak to discord…)
TeamSpeak required paying for a server. Discord worked out of the box
I checked their site and it looks like you can download the teamspeak server binary for free, even TS6 beta! Or did I miss something here?
Yea the part where Discord blew up 10 years ago because you don’t need to host a server
It is (or has already?) Going to receive a face-lift. That might help out a little bit honestly.
It has had one, TeamSpeak 5 and now they are adding screen-sharing with TeamSpeak 6. I think they would have held a good market if they worked on an upgrade sooner, they only released a beta for TS5 once Discord had gotten super popular. If they were more proactive I think most of us would be using TeamSpeak instead now. It’s just borderline impossible to convince people to move service.
Id swap but it’s not comparable yet sadly. Hopefully ts6server is released soon. Sadly I won’t get to use it as my friends won’t swap unless the mobile app works well. If the ts3 app works together with a ts6 server. Maybe.
Their site has a download page for the ts6 beta, client and server! There’s even a Linux client!