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[–] 131 points 2 years ago (50 children)
  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    What alternative would you suggest if I just want to talk to my mates while gaming? I gave up on setting up TeamSpeak after like an hour and many crashes and errors. I was a TeamSpeak fan for many years when using windows, but on Linux I highly dislike it.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Element has been working for me and my friends. At the moment, it just embeds Jitsi within the client to do group calls (which works fine. Jisti isn't bad by any means), but native group calls are being worked on and are currently in beta!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wish they would work on proper voice channels like discord has. The whole 'meeting room' zoom call style thing is obnoxious to use, and the screen sharing has so much lag.

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    Idk about them, but it's a centralized, locked-down service that absorbs and holds information and data hostage like tomorrow.

    As someone who's trying to completely avoid Discord, it's quite frustrating how many communities and projects will put important information in their Discords, and nowhere else. You have to have an account to see it, and it also isn't searchable in a search engine. It is actually quite terrible for pretty much everyone.

    Element/Matrix lets you peek into public chats and servers/spaces without an account, so it can definitely be done. They won't do it though, because they gotta make you feel dat FOMO lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I mean cool, but good luck convincing the vast majority of users leaving Discord for Matrix.

    This development is beneficial for the Linux gaming ecosystem, proprietary be damned.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Matrix is a better platform for realtime communication, but it has the same issue with needing an account and being difficult to search. Any discussions that take place on Discord or Matrix will be fleeting, as it prioritizes only the most recent discussion in the chat. Thus making long form discussions about particular topics impossible.

    All technical discussions should be archived on a searchable forum. If you are using a source forge like GitHub and GitLab, then public discussions should take place there. There's no better place for discussions and questions about code than in the same place where the code is hosted itself. Platform integrations make it very easy to associate discussions to commits and merge requests.

    While not ideal, even hosted forum platforms like Lemmy and Reddit are still better than using a chat client. If only to serve as a platform for broader public discussions and questions. People are more likely to already have a Lemmy or Reddit account than they are to have a GitHub or GitLab account.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn't care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub's mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.

    That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is also bitwig with an official flatpak

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    screenshare with audio when

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    When they decide to use Electron that's not 5 major versions out of date, but that's not happening

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I will never not hate Javascript. I hate all web dev nonsense. What a huge mess that all is.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    They haven’t updated their website yet. It still says to download the deb package or tar.gz package. No mention of the flatpak.

    Hopefully they update it at some point.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you must use discord for some reason use the web version in librewolf

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Meeh, Void has it in the packages, but I don't use it, too confusing for a messaging app if you ask me.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Meanwhile neither Element nor Schildichat or Fluffychat are official.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Nice!

    Now I’ve just got to work out why mine has suddenly started crashing on startup with GPU errors.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    FYI There are also open source discord clients available:

    • Discordo is a nice CLI to use Discord
    • ArmCord: Full Open Source Discord client with themes, etc.
    • gtkcord4 & gtkcord 3: Both are simple GTK Clients for Discord

    Third party clients are against Discord’s terms of service, so use at your own risk.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    dont know what happened to it, but today its a 404 page https://flathub.org/apps/com.discordapp.Discord

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