Is Discord now the "killer" voip program?

Gimpymoo · 22 Mar 2017 at 12:01

Noticing it is gaining more and more popularity.

What is the general concensus?

Is it better than anything before it?

My concern is having zero control with it all being in the "cloud".

Also, how do they plan on actually making money from this?

Gimpymoo · 22 Mar 2017 at 12:44

I would agree that voip programs need to evolve.

To be honest, VOIP in games FULL STOP needs to evolve, still feels like in the 90s sometimes relating to ingame voip.

Everyone saying "its free" now, what happens when they want to make money? Adverts played during your gaming session?

Ventrilo is finished as far as I can tell, Teamspeak is stuck in its ways, Mumble is just seen as "not cool" and although I like it, I can see why others do not. The UI for one. Neither are very "Web 2.0" which the majority of users expect nowadays.

The ability to be in control of own services though as a community is important. I would not want this forum to be ran on Facebook for example.

Gimpymoo · 24 Mar 2017 at 13:40

Do they have an API to allow

Omaeka said:
in 10 years time they won't be around I think and it'll be Discord + it's competitors.

I would agree with that.

Teamspeak will be too fiddly for the kids of the iphone generation.

In this day and age though, there is no reason why anything should look like TS3.

Design and function can be integrated in this day and age.

Gimpymoo · 24 Mar 2017 at 14:11

I know nothing of the TS dev team but from what I have seen from them over the years, I imagine they were just a bunch of kids who setup a business and have little business sense unfortunately.

Gimpymoo · 4 Apr 2017 at 07:03

Discord is running away with it.

I prefer Mumble and Teamspeak but their UI's compared to Discord are just poor, despite being functional. People expect more nowadays I guess and have been spoilt by phone apps. Both Mumble and TS are too "busy" for the average user.

If Discord had a "self host" option, it would clear house.

Gimpymoo · 4 Apr 2017 at 19:23

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Gimpymoo · 6 Apr 2017 at 11:59

I would LOVE a self hosting solution if they ever change their mind.

Not saying it is for everyone but they could make some money fro that but the support costs may wipe out any additional monies gained.

Gimpymoo · 20 May 2017 at 16:40

Having been using Discord for a while, it has me intrigued.

Being an old fart by gaming standards, I fondly remember when IRC was king and this does fill that niche very well.

As a VOIP client, it gets the job done.

My opinion is that as a complete package, it is greater than the sum of its individual parts and nothing else on the market is close to it as a complete package.

The hosting model is a negative but financial pressures may force them to rethink that perhaps in the future?

There is a crossover between forum software such as what this community uses and something like Discord and Discord does "stand on its toes" and does raise a question of will communities like "OCUK" switch to a more "fleshed out" Discord in the future.

Personally, I would like to see Discord like features implemented on community software such as what OCUK runs. That would be my ideal.