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Great time to start looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?
Matrix seems like the one with most potential to develop into a 1:1 Discord alternative.
Then you have XMPP, Mattermost, RocketChat, whatever Revolt.chat renamed itself into, etc.
That is a spectacularly bad name, lol
CalcKey? FireFish? Developers of Discord alternatives are just a special kind of person. Their efforts are commendable of course.
Which one?
What revolt changed its name to
Had to google it.
Dafuq is that xD
Matrix is stunningly unintuitive to use, sadly.
Matrix is a protocol with multiple options for front-end clients. If you don't like Element, for example, you can try Cinny. They both use Matrix but are different apps.
Depends what you use it for. I see people use it for group chats, video calls, and forums, all of which would have different replacements.
IRC
No voice in IRC though
IMHO computers are made for text. As this comment illustrates.😆
That's fine for some folks, but i game with friends a lot. So far discord is the easiest for that. Been researching alternatives for a bit and might go back Mumble, though
We have a signal group in my game group. Works really well.
Nice, that works fo voice for sure.
Can you share your screen on irc?
That's way too fancy for irc, but good idea! I will think about how to do that. Would a single still pic be useful?
It's common to stream gameplay to friends during a voice call. Sharing a single image doesn't really compare
OK I dug into this. It appears this is most easily accomplished with Matrix, as it allows many-to-many audio chats. I asked for a quote. ;P
I was afraid you'd say something like that.
Dang -- I have no idea how to address that....🤔
Alright, well I'll keep thinking.
Thank you very much for the feedback.
Stoat (previously Revolt)