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RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) (www.youtube.com)
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I mostly lurk here, and I know we've had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord's age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren't seasoned self-hosters, and I've still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I'm missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer's self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it's looking like I'm leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.

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[–] 120 points 5 months ago (17 children)

Seeing Teamspeak outlive Discord just keeps making me laugh.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Now I'm just waiting for Ventrilo and the All Seeing Eye to come back... Maybe one day I'll be able to play CoD1 mp and have weekly scrims again : (

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Don’t know if you are interested in COD UO but we have biweekly pugs every Tuesday and Sunday evening. I think the cod1 scene is pretty much like us. CoD2 seems to be the active community with a running league with like 9 teams or so.

    Trying to build the community up on these old games

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    I'd def jam UO but I'm down under and playing with ~250 ping is too shit for cod :( thanks for the invite tho, hf in ur games <3

    Edit: I did see this recently, could be useful for you: https://gamedate.org/

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I remember the good old days of the 300 pingers either being people on dial up or Aussies getting a morning game in. Yeah it’s be hard to scrim with that ping for sure. Thanks for sharing the game date URL. It’s a nice little site, we’ve used it a few times

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    What’s wrong with team speak? It was a good service circa 2006. And I don’t see how it is significantly less valuable to the “gaming” community. I know it isn’t as feature rich and discord has evolved a lot from its “gamer” origins. I see it used for all kinds of community’s as a catch all system. I guess that is good, but I don’t get much value from it being a centralized point of community building.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Imo the biggest problem with Teamspeak is that it still requires an active connection to the server at all time.. So unless your computer is on with the app opened 24/7 you may miss messages. That may or may not be an issue, but you may miss messages that your friends send to the group when you aren't actively online.

    Frankly the UI of TeamSpeak is ageing as well, and there is value in for instance being able to simply attach a screenshot directly in a Discord chat without having to upload it to some external service.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    They have acknowledged the offline messaging part. It does work in group chats and has E2EE there, but I think it's something they are going to look into for servers. It's closed source, so we are at the mercy of their few developers and cannot help. While I do trust them more than Discord, I would rather have an open solution, like Stoat/Fluxer, take off instead.

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