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>> blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear.

I think HN may have solved one of my most annoying technology mysteries... Definitely taking discord out of automatic startup. Moving back to teamspeak or some other system is quickly becoming a thing for me. I used to run a TS3 server for years.

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Why not just use it through the browser? That's what I've been doing since the beginning.

Mumble is a much better experience than Teamspeak, at least in my experience.

Mumble is probably the best VOIP solution on the market. The main issue blocking its wider adoption, IMO, is the lack of support for persistent, multi-media friendly, text chat. I've suspected for a while that Discord could be totally replaced by someone duct-taping Mumble and some forum software together.

Discord's biggest sell is being able to spin up your own "server" for zero effort and for free. Some kind of federated Mumble that people could rent servers from (or join their own self-hosted servers to) would be able to eat into some of Discord's market share but the free hosting is a huge draw ro Discord.

You call that a bug, i call it a feature.

When did they ever call it a bug?

Same. I've thought about what Mumble needs to be competitive at all in the market.

* Persistent chat

* Multimedia chat (Emojis, resized images, etc)

* Camera streaming/game streaming (MUST HAVE these days)

Additionally, if there were "mumble multi-server management" that allowed a host to spin up other servers quickly, third-parties could skim off Discord. There is no loyalty to Discord IMO, it's just so damned easy to use.

Last time I checked, mumble didn't have a web client either

Man, that would be pretty sweet though. Someone could cobble together an unholy Mumble + Mastodon beast of privacy-respectful gaming communications

TeamSpeak 5 is currently in beta and attempts to bring a Discord-like experience to any TeamSpeak server.

TS3 already had a lot of features like file uploads, rich text chat, avatars, and much more, and as far as I know TS5 is mostly a reskin using the existing technology of TS3.

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