Discord Vs Teamspeak?
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I closed down the "Unofficial OcUK TS" to start using Discord.
For a start it is free, the UI is better, cleaner, easier to assign permissions, you can post links and get to preview what it is, think facebook timeline feed but with an in-built talk function similar to TS.
You can either download the app, or you can run Discord via the browser. If works via Andriod and iOS also.
You can have as many talk and text chat only channels as you want, you can have as many servers as you want.
I have had a few issues with it but tweeted the dev team and got a response within 5mins each time.
The usage on cpu is very low and it can be minimised to run in the background if you are not interested in having the UI open. You can mute other players from talking, you can also set a different volume for each user. All very easy and quick to do. The voice recognition comes through clearly and imo better than TS. Sometimes you can suffer random dropouts but they last seconds before you get reconnected. We have had around 15-20 people using it at one stage and it doesn't seem to suffer any negative side effects.
For me it's night and day better than TS.
I've not really come across any distinct disadvantages apart from it having no soundboard option, but I believe that will come soon although maybe in a paid for feature per user.
For a start it is free, the UI is better, cleaner, easier to assign permissions, you can post links and get to preview what it is, think facebook timeline feed but with an in-built talk function similar to TS.
You can either download the app, or you can run Discord via the browser. If works via Andriod and iOS also.
You can have as many talk and text chat only channels as you want, you can have as many servers as you want.
I have had a few issues with it but tweeted the dev team and got a response within 5mins each time.
The usage on cpu is very low and it can be minimised to run in the background if you are not interested in having the UI open. You can mute other players from talking, you can also set a different volume for each user. All very easy and quick to do. The voice recognition comes through clearly and imo better than TS. Sometimes you can suffer random dropouts but they last seconds before you get reconnected. We have had around 15-20 people using it at one stage and it doesn't seem to suffer any negative side effects.
For me it's night and day better than TS.
I've not really come across any distinct disadvantages apart from it having no soundboard option, but I believe that will come soon although maybe in a paid for feature per user.
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You are able to create a list of permissions which you then assign users to.
I would recommend spinning up a discord server of your own, literally takes a few minutes via the website and playing around with the settings.
I use this over TS, Mumble and skype now. its really good.
EDIT;
Under server settings you have Roles and Members.
Roles is where you would set up the permissions. *You can add multiple people to the same role*.
Members is where you create new users and also assign them to specific roles * a member can be apart of multiple roles*
Hope the above helps
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I love discord but my only issue is that it can be a little too simple.
On Teamspeak I could set up a user that would just play music to everyone in the channel but it would seem to be impossible on discord as you can only have 1 instance.
It also sometimes straight up doesn't transmit my voice. The little green ring would light up on my side and the other person's program but nothing would come through.
However it's free and easy for new users so we stick with it.
On Teamspeak I could set up a user that would just play music to everyone in the channel but it would seem to be impossible on discord as you can only have 1 instance.
It also sometimes straight up doesn't transmit my voice. The little green ring would light up on my side and the other person's program but nothing would come through.
However it's free and easy for new users so we stick with it.
Thanks for this. Have you felt that the service is a "you get what you pay for" kind of situation? I've subscribed with Typefrag for the year and have been pretty happy with the service (compared to my poor experience with Gameservers).
Is Discord here to stay? I'm trying to maintain a community and for me the stability of the server into the distant future is very important for me. It's nice for members to go AWOL but can easily come back because the ip doesn't change and TS is quite user friendly, for me at least.
Discord seem to like holding onto peoples data, apparently not intending to sell it - but then again why collect it? I'm happy for others to test this out in the first place, free services, has to be a catch somewhere.
We have an org TS server, I'll stick with it.
We have an org TS server, I'll stick with it.
I ran a TS server for about a year and recently switched to Discord.
We found most TS hosting companies were very unreliable, I eventually hosted one at work and was stable for that time.
Since changing jobs we had to get rid of it, and since found Discord.
Discord is a lot more polished than TS in the way you do pretty much everything in it. Voice/Text chat, admin, everything.
The only area I've noticed TS being better than Discord is that the audio quality isn't quite as good as TS. Not far off, and by no means bad, just shy of the quality we were used to in TS.
We're sticking with Discord.
We found most TS hosting companies were very unreliable, I eventually hosted one at work and was stable for that time.
Since changing jobs we had to get rid of it, and since found Discord.
Discord is a lot more polished than TS in the way you do pretty much everything in it. Voice/Text chat, admin, everything.
The only area I've noticed TS being better than Discord is that the audio quality isn't quite as good as TS. Not far off, and by no means bad, just shy of the quality we were used to in TS.
We're sticking with Discord.
I'm getting that too, quite regularly. have to faff about jumping from channel to channel or even closing down and restarting a couple of times to get it to work. a bit of a pain, but as you say it is free so can't complain. oh and the audio is pretty clear and it's nice to able to set each users volume differently
How does this compare to Mumble?
I like Mumble because it is nice and easy to get a Mumble server up and running and its easy for people to join your server. You can also allow as many people as you like to join your server which is useful when you have big multiplayer games.
I'm not keen on paying for something when there is a really good open source solution available.
I like Mumble because it is nice and easy to get a Mumble server up and running and its easy for people to join your server. You can also allow as many people as you like to join your server which is useful when you have big multiplayer games.
I'm not keen on paying for something when there is a really good open source solution available.
Yeah I stopped using TeamSpeak years ago :/ Mumble did everything that I wanted better and was free so I switched!
The last time I went back to TS to join some peeps it had gone from v2 to v3 and I can't say I was a fan then either.
<3 Mumble