Its looking like Microsoft is gonna buy Discord. Preferably open source, and has a big userbase, and has Windows and Linux option. (but mainly windows because i only game on windows now.)

  • PureTryOut@lemmy.ml
    53·
    4 years ago

    There is no such thing as a voice or video channel in Matrix. Not yet at least. Communities are going to be replaced by Spaces soon btw.

      • SeerLite@lemmy.ml
        4·
        4 years ago

        There isn’t voice chats/channels in Matrix afaik, only calls. One time calls are not what people look for in Discord alternatives. The appeal of voice channels is that they’re always there and show who’s online with other people already or looking for a chat, with no one specific mind. It’s just like Mumble channels.

        I’m kinda confused why you keep saying Matrix/Element has features it clearly doesn’t.

        • Travis Skaalgard@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 years ago

          …there are no limits on how many times you can call… if you’re looking for calls that are always open, using tons of bandwidth, yeah, that’s not as doable on non-corporate platforms… you’re not going to get the exact same experience. Element doesn’t have a purple logo either :(((

          EDIT: actually, you can just keep a call open indefinitely. I’m in a room that does this regularly. People hop in and out all the time.

          • SeerLite@lemmy.ml
            2·
            4 years ago

            A voice channel (or “call” if you wanna equate them) with no people won’t use any “tons of bandwidth” though. There’s literally no data being transferred. A voice stream doesn’t even have to be allocated (or whatever the right terminology is for that).

            EDIT: actually, you can just keep a call open indefinitely. I’m in a room that does this regularly. People hop in and out all the time.

            That’s interesting, I’ve never experimented with that. Still, people want an obvious equivalent to Discord voice channels. Calls aren’t voice channels, no matter how much you want them to be the same. At a technical level they’re the same yes, but the UX is completely different.

            Hell you could even say all they need to do to implement voice channels is at the client level because the server already kind of supports it through the Jitsi calls.