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 No.14417

Recently some kids told me to download a program called Discord to chat while playing games. Is it free as in free beer? Does anyone have any info on it besides whats detailed on its website?

How is it compared to the alternatives? I've never heard of it until now. Cheers anons
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 No.14418

its closed source, hosted directly at nsa

do not want

also just duckduckgo it, check website for github repository, if it's not there it's a propblob. https://discordapp.com/

alternatives:
http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
https://rocket.chat/
and of course good old teamspeak3, i dont see why people dont just apt-get install that. they are probably too lazy to install the fuarrrking exe on their windows machine or something and therefore want a browser app like discord has one... i dont get it

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 No.14419

>>14418
i forgot to mention that rocket.chat is mainly an alternative to skype and slack for team workings and not gaming but im posting it because of possible relevance to lainons

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 No.14420

also this
https://discordapp.com/privacy
really easy to find

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 No.14422

>>14418
>>14420
Christ almighty none of this sounds good, but i know raising these concerns with the kids won't help

is there a way to at least minimize the threat?

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 No.14424

>>14418
TeamSpeak works fine but it is closed source software that does not respect your freedoms. It also lacks video.

There is Mumble, but it is nowhere as feature complete as TeamSpeak.

I really want a proper P2P, channel based, voice chat program but nothing decent has been made. People mention Tox but the last time I tried out the multiple different user interfaces none of them worked in any decent capacity.

I have heard that RetroShare now has a VOIP plugin but I have yet look into it. There seems to be no screen shots of it anywhere.

>>14422
If they don't care about the fact that using Discord promotes the NSA's tyranny, then the only thing you can do is provide them with a program that has better features than Discord. However, as far I am aware, there is nothing of the sort.

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 No.14428

>>14418
Teamspeak is proprietary AFAIK.
Mumble is quality software.
I do not understand why people want their web browsers to work as their VOIP...
If discord uses websockets it may also leak you IP even if you use a proxy.

>>14424
What do you miss in mumble?
Video is also out of the scope of the application OP wants if I understood the post correctly.

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 No.14430

>>14428
>>14424
I've heard lots about retroshare and tox but if they can't do the same or even better than something like discord then you are right. Both mumble and teamspeak always seemed shitty to me but then again they're software for players.

I've always wondered why no one just stole the base of something like discord and built on it with security and transparency in mind. Deals with companies and good advertising would be essential too because there's a large market that's not being utilized.

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 No.14433

>>14430
Retroshare is a fuarrrking huge application if you only want VOIP and chat functionality. It has like a million features. Tox is fine IMO. I hope it gains more traction.



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