No.531451
What does /tech/ think about Discord?
I know there's a lot of hate for skype, qTox is getting there and TeamSpeak is not free, unless you're leeching off someone else's server.
https://discordapp.com/
https://blog.discordapp.com/
http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/26/discord-raises-20m-for-voice-comm-app-for-multiplayer-mobile-games/
http://tay.kinja.com/causing-discord-a-review-1724300108
There's not much information about it at the moment, thoughts?
No.531481
>>531459
Surely it's got to be better than Skypes bloated hunk of shit though, right?
No.531485
>>531481
>>531451
I get that you want to promote your product, but this isn't the place to do it. Halfchan would be more receptive to these kinds of threads and that kind of software. We are concerned with privacy, we're concerned with Free software, and we're concerned about shilling, COINTELPRO, and things of that nature. You damage the image of your software in our eyes by making these types of threads.
>mfw it's probably just a bot posting this shit.
No.531487
>>531481
what makes you say that? there's no way of knowing.
use mumble instead.
No.531488
No.531490
>>531485
>tfw not affiliated with company, can't deal with any question without freaking out
No.531496
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Seems like they where first into mobile apps, selling a tablet only MOBA game exclusive to apple products. Making deals with huge company's like apple is usually a bad sign.
" Fates Forever is no longer available for download or for gameplay. The app and supporting community webpage were disabled in October, 2015. "
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hammer-and-chisel
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hammer-&-chisel
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-citron#/entity
No.531506
Mumble is superior, I run it on freech.net.
No.531509
>>531481
There is no "better" — both are horrible, don't care about the user's rights and aren't secure until their security can be proven by analysing their published source code.
No.531654
i'd rather wait for qtox/antox instead
No.535232
>There's not much information about it at the moment
what?
No.538920
Alright for gaming and on-the-spot stuff; i.e the case I want to organize some pub game, can just link them the room to the Discord room with no hassle on getting them to download the client.
But I rather have something like Tox for general chatting, but weirdly no one ever uses it. I added a bunch of people from /g/, etc but they're almost never on. Not only that the Groupbot wasn't working and is now always offline.
No.539245
>>538920
> [23:21] Groupbot: Uptime: 42d 18h 51m
> [23:21] Groupbot: Friends: 1116 (133 online)
> [23:21] Groupbot: Inactive friends are purged after 38 days
> [23:21] Groupbot: Group 0 | Text | peers: 22 | Title: Tox Public Chat
> [23:21] Groupbot: Group 1 | Text | peers: 14 | Title: /pol/: Trump Conference 6PM PST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCaL8x75TiE
Update your client.
I think something changed a while back, and old clients stopped being able to connect to new ones or something.
> Tox shilling intensifies
No.539248
>>539245
I'll be honest, Tox is fucking lackluster. It's like it got almost there, we have video chat, group audio, file transfer. And now they're not doing shit. Seriously, where the fuck is group video!?
That being said, at least it's open and encrypted, I'm not saying it's ultra secure and I would trust my life with it, but I WOULD trust it over something like Discord. You should distrust ANY proprietary VOIP related clients.
No.539251
>>531451
Whats wrong with mumble? Best voip client ive seen so far
No.539257
>>539248
Has *anyone* done p2p group video?
All the systems I know of use centralised servers to do the mixing. I can only imagine that the bandwidth needs of the clients would quickly become insane otherwise.
No.539263
>TeamSpeak is not free, unless you're leeching off someone else's server
No.539306
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>>538920
I tried to get people to use Tox for ages and it never stuck because it still (needs/needed) time in the oven. By contrast, I've been using IRC and XMPP via Cockmail to chat with friends and everyone's kept with it pretty well. Trying to get A/V to work has been unsuccessful, so I still keep skype on another machine for that, and in case old friends I don't talk to need to touch base. Although if >>539248 isn't bullshitting and group audio is a working thing, it might be worth another chance.
At the very least, I've managed to cut Skype out of my life enough to where I can keep it quarantined on its own machine. libpurple is shit, but I have yet to come across a better client than pidgin to use, especially with OTR, so I'm stuck with it at the moment. That's progress from a year ago, so I'll take what I can get.
No.539325
>>539306
You can clearly see on their wiki they have had group audio for a long time: https://wiki.tox.chat/clients
>I've managed to cut Skype out of my life enough to where I can keep it quarantined on its own machine. libpurple is shit, but I have yet to come across a better client than pidgin to use..
Have you tried the skypeweb pidgin plugin? It may be chat only, but it's a nice way to still have skype on your main machine without the awful NSA garbage application.
No.539329
>>539263
What? There's a dedicated server file you can run to host your own server for free. Done it for years.
No.539332
No.539370
Discord reeks of violating your privacy and mining and selling information on you. The Facebook of voice chat.
I recommend mumble instead. Open source and encrypted. If you are concerned about your private keys being compromised on a hosting service host your own server.
No.539372
>>539325
Neat. I'll try it out if I can twist enough arms into trying it. It would be a great way to break free of 99% of my Skype use cases, for sure
>Have you tried the skypeweb pidgin plugin?
I forgot that skype in your browser was a thing, I didn't think it was extensible enough to support a plugin like that. That looks handy, thanks for the tip, I'll have to check that out as well.
No.539417
>>539372
No problem, everything I mentioned too should have SlackBuilds so it should be pretty straight forward to setup.
No.541631
Voice Chat like VOIP is never ever ever fucking ever secure
No.543051
No.543058
>another google shill company
sure anon, they won't be selling or giving away detailed information about you and your communications to anyone :^)
>implying you faggots even know what a fucking user agreement and privacy policy is
No.543080
this is just a tox shill thread
fuck off
No.543084
I like it.
It's pretty good for casual gaming groups.
Use case:
1. play cs:go
2. get non-retard team mates
3. have a good game
4. invite to discord for a stack
5. have a great evening
No.545746
>>539245
I thought there was a /tech/ chat, but I guess not.
No.545777
I finally got all my normie friends to to leave skype for good with this.
At least it's one good thing.
No.545809
>>545746
We do have an IRC channel.
No.545813
Discord is full of reddit rubbish.
I tell you something.
Chatting > IRC
VOIP > Mumble
This isn't hard.
Fuck all these hipster apps I want to kill fucking Aaron Swartz again this fucking nigger for helping to create reddit
No.545818
>>539332
doesn't even let me read cause of botnetflare
No.545851
>>545829
chromium is free software
No.545855
I'm trying to add video/picture posting capabilities like skype/discord have to mumble using QWebEngineView. So far so good.
No.545863
>>545855
Also, in the future I might just make a WebRTC version of mumble with basically the same interface. Essentially a open-source version of Discord.
Any ideas you guys have?
No.545866
>>545863
finish >>545855 and give me the source I would like to have it.
No.545879
>>545851
And it's not in that image.
No.545892
No.545895
No.545896
>>545895
Also, you need at least Qt 5.4. Otherwise, it'll just compile with the old LogTextBrowser widget.
No.545909
> TeamSpeak is not free, unless you're leeching off someone else's server
Show me the TS3 source code.
Show me the TS3 protocol specifications.
It's closed-as-fuck. There's nothing free about it.
> What does /tech/ think about Discord?
How do I join and engage in this without using proprietary software?
No.545922
>>545909
>How do I join and engage in this without using proprietary software?
Step 1: throw your x86 CPU in the trash
No.545931
>>545855
don't forget to protect against javascript and remote image (if the user has them turned off)
No.545938
>>545931
Already thinking about security. If done right, a server user could add their own scripts (requires user consent) and add their own tabs for extra features. You could use mumble for cytu.be like features.
No.546087
>>531451
>not knowing the difference between free and gratis
>saying teamspeak is free when you're using somebody else's server
wew
also
>discord
>proprietary
no
No.546091
>>545922
this is a pretty dumb argument since software,unlike hardware, can be coded by anyone at home with sufficient time
crafting hardware from scratch actually requires a person owning a fab
>>531451
discord is pretty terrible, all it does it make a web app out of standalone applications that already exist (Mumble,IRC),
its only popular with the normies
and they are going to find ways to monetize this, if its free you are the product
No.546096
I didn't see the point of it before they added the friends list. Seemed like a proprietary version of Mumble.
Now it's like Steam+Mumble for normalfags or something. Still don't really see the point but I might give in and install it some day just because it's fucking impossible to find people to play certain games with on 8chan.
No.546318
>>546096
If I weren't such a paranoid fuck about playing with random channers, I'd try to play something with you. Though, I'm curious, what games do you play?
Sage for off-topic.
No.548432
No.548448
>>548432
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No.548455
>>548448
your problem pal/
No.548457
>>548455
Looks like you've allowed scripts, and probably cookies, so you've already lost.
Sorry, guess it's time for you to kill yourself.
No.548461
>>548457
> Looks like you've allowed scripts, and probably cookies, so you've already lost.
> In Discord botnet app thread,
> dont use scripts, cookies, but siting in discord thread...
What you lost here pleb?
> probably cookies
nope
No.548463
>>548461
Wow, good job exposing yourself there. How much do they pay you per post?
No.548466
>>548463
> How much do they pay you per post?
Nice, now its all clear.
Heh, what i expect its just another /tech/tard
No.548530
discord collects user info,
also their whole user base consists of people who use windows 8/10 and play league of legends
No.549157
I was tricked into installing Discord. Ok, not tricked, but tipsy and playing video games and Skype started fucking up.
I have to say, the voice quality is on par, orbetter then Skype - yet to see anything come close. Mumble and shit never works properly for me.
However, it feels really sluggish to use, options are hidden in unnatural places. Like auto-start is a checkbox you see when rightclicking the tray icon when Discord is active.
And everything is trying to be streamlined, so figuring out how to add friends you talked to, change rooms around, see where yhou are in a channel and so on is frigging hard.
I guess it's OK if you just use it talk with friends..
But other th en that, blaurgh