UskompufGet ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox!

Solaris17y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

bobsledApart from it being an Electron app, is there a reason?

Solaris17y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

DeathtoGnomesIts ok, no one blames you for sticking with skype. :p:D:p

Discord is a chatroom (AOL?), small file server, message board, and voicechat all rolled into one. No messing with IPs and passwords unless you're an admin or have permissions. Its perfect for creating complete gaming communities. Mumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).

bobsledDiscord doesn’t have a proper calendar though, and as far as networks are concerned, it’s a mess to allow through your firewall (something around 20,000 ports need to be open IIRC)

Certainly not suitable for a corporate network.

FrickDoes it do bluetooth headsets in Windows yet?

Solaris17y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

Solaris17y-yay.........I think I am the only person in the world that dislikes this software with a passion.

etayoriusNo, i really hate it too. I find Discord annoying, usless and redundant. PC Gamer posted an article on facebook regarding this same news, and people went balistic telling me how much of a slow idi*t i was for not using it. They said, "Facebook has a shittier and more cluttered UI than Discord, and yet here you are you Ecking Slow idiot." I just don't like that a lot of game Forums that i used to frecuent have now migrated to that stinky crap.

When i play L4D2 on steam and some random dude add me and i happen to accept them, they always ask me to install or use that crap in order to use "voice chat". Like seriously? what about the In-Game Voice Chat or Steam Group? like... WHY you need a third software when Steam and pretty much every game already have them?

I tried it once back in 2019, i couldn't set my mic properly and they couldn't hear me, but they could hear me in Game in game voice chat. Also, they were posting a ton of super nasty Trans, Scat and some sort of animated kiddy Pr0n. So i got fed up dealing with that crap and never went back. I don't care if their mommas and their dog use it. And i still don't get why a lot of devs are shutting down their own forums in favor or this redundant crap. The whole point of a forum was to help other people by reading your 5-10 year old comment with a fix for such issue, but on this nasty crap you need to scroll, scroll and scroll for like 20 minutes in order to find the frigging file for fix. God i hate it. WHY are people flocking in mases to Discord? WHY?

Why_MeI remember when Teamspeak used to be a thing.

c2DDragonit uses a lot of bandwidth for nothing.

Why_MeI remember when Teamspeak used to be a thing.

MusselsThe only reason any of my friends groups left Teamspeak was a simple one:

Teamspeak required a server, with port forwards. Either you used a public one and dealt with the general public (even the TPU teamspeak proved problematic for me with this, as we always had randoms interrupting gaming) or you needed someone you knew with an always on PC and reliable internet connection, who also knew how port forwards worked

Discord came along working for 'everyone' and working well multi platform (work buddies would do group skype calls on their phones prior to discord for their PS3/4 gaming sessions. madness i say)

And the final nail was that discord partially copied what twitch and other social media platforms do, with 'content creators' being able to run their servers with better interaction with the common users.

You couldnt have a Teamspeak server with Shroud and 500 randoms, but you can on discord - since the platform was setup to allow channel creators to set it so people can listen and view without being able to talk back.
Throw in the (admittedly minor) paid features of the platform to allow content creators to profit on discord, and there was financial motivation to encourage users to get into something that merged voice chat, live streaming, and a web forum in one location.

And then I guess kids grew up with it and it's UI and layout is so clunky and weird to everything that came before it, they developed this culture that you're an idiot if you don't understand it - so they feel like idiots when they go anywhere else and never leave.


I use discord daily, because it's reliable and we can choose voice servers located in-between all our users instead of at one of our houses - the paid and content creator aspects of it are still foreign to me. I'm like the old fart who uses facebook messenger by SMS to some kids these days.

DeathtoGnomesTrue, but it wasnt designed for corporate use. Although I wonder if it could be used within such a network, without internet access. It cant it depends on its servers for voice.

bobsledExcept during Covid, where Discord made many efforts to reduce it’s targeting of the gamer crowd and instead focus on advertising towards user interest groups and working from home.

DeathtoGnomesMumble or Teamspeak cant compare (aka dinosaurs).

MusselsHell i saw a comment yesterday on social media about how "Discord replaced useless web forums" and I still can't wrap my head around that one

R-T-BIf you want to selfhost the server and setup the codecs

DeathtoGnomesIf you're self hosting, there is better than Teamspeak or Mumble or Discord.

R-T-BDo tell. I've yet to find better than mumble that's non-commercial/free.