• mika_mika@lemmy.world
    163·
    6 days ago

    I stood my ground on not using this useless software for like 10 years. If there was no in-game chat or voice I just didn’t, but almost all games where that is necessary have it.

    How validated I feel as it crumples.

    • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        6·
        6 days ago

        back in my day Ventrilo

        Ahh “Vent.” My biggest memory there is people trolling with the sign-on TTS.

        “My ROFLCOPTER GOES SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI…”

        Anybody remember the brief flash in the pan that was “X-fire”? Haha

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
            2·
            6 days ago

            YES!!

            When I stall and forget what the heck I was saying, thanks to this video I’ll sometimes just go “…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…AEIOU…”

            Probably about how I’d react to having to fix a component on a moon base too. XD

            “Snake? SNAKE? Saaaaaaake 🍶…”

        • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Back in the day my college had very strict filtering on the WiFi. I learned how to use SSH tunneling through PuTTY to bypass the firewall to connect to X-Fire. I was so 1337.

          I can still hear the ripping jeans sound effect

        • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I’m that old too!

          But that’s way before I started real online gaming, where Vent was during the peak of my online gaming days.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          6 days ago

          This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.

          In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            I lived in a rural area and the nearest phone for emergencies belonged to one house that lived a quarter mile away.

            The owner of the phone got hooked on WoW on dial-up at some point and basically ended the party line for everyone.

            • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
              4·
              6 days ago

              Squatting on a party-line to play WoW is just a wild pairing of technological eras to me. If we go by the invention date of the former they’re more than a century apart (1878).

              Also: rude!

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
            3·
            6 days ago

            Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you’d pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.

            Edit to add: in some rural areas they’d even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements

          • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
            2·
            6 days ago

            My server wouldn’t let you on with mIRC unless you were at least cool enough to disguise it/use a bouncer. Kept the M$ riffraff out ;)

      • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 days ago

        TS6 supposedly has screenshare. Big drawback from my view right now is no mobile client 😕 still, probly gonna be switching any day now, at least for gaming sessions!

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Oh no, so I won’t get to see that one person who is always the only person who turns their camera on so you get to see a live feed of their messy bedroom, weirdly harsh lighting and piles of junk while they try to eat dinner while playing video games.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            6 days ago

            If it’s a personal friend group and we’re talking about life or sharing things or watching a piece of media, or the meeting is about each other, sure, makes sense to show up and “be there.”

            When it’s gaming acquaintances and we’re just playing a game, it feels odd and out of place.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it’s really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.

        • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
          7·
          6 days ago

          Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I’ve seen really allows you to do that easily.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            I agree, the app makes it very easy to share and collaborate and make communities around sharing content, so I think there’s going to be a vacuum that will get quickly filled by up-and-coming companies trying to compete on ground floor.

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
            1·
            6 days ago

            Something about it isn’t as super-convenient like Discord but, Signal desktop has a pretty good screen presentation mode that works pretty well. I dunno how bad the latency is or anything though.

  • craigers@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’m checking out fluxer but it’s getting hug of death right now. Root also looks promising but they are closed source and VC backed which gives me pause.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 days ago

      closed source and VC backed

      Basically a non-starter at this point.

      Maybe used to be these startups would compete for user affections by being more benevolent.

      But nowadays the bare basics of even being competitive in the business is having a plan for gaining critial mass and then rapidly enshittifying for revenue before selling your product users to some new private equity overlords.

      Open source used to be more of just a preference, or a virtue. Now it’s basically the only way to not guarantee your exploitation.

      • craigers@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        100% agree. Just wish this was common understanding amongst the masses. But here I am on lemmy and not reddit, where most folks are aligned on FOSS or death.

  • Alloi@lemmy.world
    261·
    7 days ago

    Matrix + Element.

    It’s open source, decentralized (federated), supports voice/video, roles, persistent rooms, and you can self-host if you want full control. It’s basically the only thing that feels like a real discord replacement without being locked into one company’s servers.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      I installed this yesterday and couldn’t find one room related to video games that had any chat messages in the past few years. I put a message in anyway, but not optimistic.

      • Alloi@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        be the change you wish to see in the world.

        now is the perfect time to assist in this developing landscape and make into something we can actually call our own.

      • Alloi@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        i like how light it is, but its just not sufficient for a 5 person DnD/gaming group like mine.

          • Alloi@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 days ago

            no no, i mean not sufficient in the way that cant handle voice and video calls with a stable connection between multiple people.

            we wanted a discord alternative that allowed us most or all of the features of discord for our DnD campaigns and streaming to one another. it just wasnt stable for more than two or three people. let alone five lol.

            not dissing it though, light tools always have their place. its just difficult enough trying to explain to a passive group of 30+ year olds that discord is the devil and we need to own the means of communication without offering a smooth(ish) transition process with similar quality and features.

            • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              Oooh!

              If it wasn’t closed-source I’d actually recommend Teamspeak for that use case. Elsewise, of the ones I’ve known personally the stablest would be Mumble, but the problem is the clients.

              It’s also important to recall that if we want to look for alternatives we have to be very willing to look for stuff that’s not Discord 1:1 because otherwise what would be the point. Plus, it’s unfair of us to ask full equivalence from hobbyist developers to match what a corporation that is selling our data to ensure cash flow can do.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    I backed up local copies of a couple of chats with some stuff I actually care about, using Tyrrrz DiscordChatExporter 2.43

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    22·
    7 days ago

    Yes! I’m joining “the young people”!

    What do we do nowadays? Are we still tubular?

    I think it’ll be neato.