Alternative to Discord?

[WildStyle*]

Just looking for an alternate way to communicate with my friends. Text chat and voice chat.

Discord was great, back in beta... Now, just unable to use it pretty much, unless you have nitro. Apparently if you don't have nitro it will cut you off for a long ass time, which means whatever you say won't get across. I wouldn't believe such things if it wasn't such an obvious pain of asking your friend to repeat himself 5 times and hoping that one of those times he will be able to complete his sentence. Or your friend not hearing you at all. Also I don't fancy anything, but the voice and chat feature.

Currently found something called Overtone, it works... But something about that thing, that annoys me, but for now it will do as a voice chat, as it works great!

Just want to know if anyone knows other voice apps? You know ones that aren't from 10 years ago, because everyone hisses in those and sound horrible. Nostalgic, but not a great experience.

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, WildStyle* said:

Now, just unable to use it pretty much, unless you have nitro. Apparently if you don't have nitro it will cut you off for a long ass time, which means whatever you say won't get across. I wouldn't believe such things if it wasn't such an obvious pain of asking your friend to repeat himself 5 times and hoping that one of those times he will be able to complete his sentence. Or your friend not hearing you at all. Also I don't fancy anything, but the voice and chat feature.

I have no issues at all with Discord and I don't pay for Nitro. Are you sure evreything is configured properly on you and your friends pc?

 

Other than that you can try good ol' skype or even steam chat

 

[Firewrath9]

Hangouts, Skype, Slack?

[WildStyle*]

2 minutes ago, Himommies said:

I have no issues at all with Discord and I don't pay for Nitro. Are you sure evreything is configured properly on you and your friends pc?

 

Other than that you can try good ol' skype or even steam chat

 

I'm into audio, so it is really hard for me to fuck up, even if you use push to talk, discord just decides that nope you will be cut off here. It has been happening to my friend for a long time and he has tried every setting under the sun. I was fine until recently where my friend started to have the same issue with me. And Overtone worked fine, just adjusted some volume sliders here and there, end of story.

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

Hangouts, Skype, Slack?

Hangouts are pretty bad, Skype is a wind tunnel simulation, slack is freemium, so I am not entirely sure about that one at the moment.

[manikyath]

sharing the discord pain here.. my discord "server" is actually forced to east-EU region to work around performance issues.

 

past that, i actually got back into teamspeak, and even gone as far to configure a 3CX server, but no voice activation was a killer there.

and when it comes to more "mom-friendly" applications.. skype does just fine most of the time, and the free tier of teams may be worth to look at as well.

 

unfortunately.. most "alternatives" either have some "hello this is 2007" drawbacks, or are about as bloated as a stereotypical american.

[Princess Luna]

Telegram is amazing but unfortunately it only supports 1x1 calls what decreases it's usefulness.

[matrix07012]

https://matrix.org/

It's FOSS and can be self-hosted, but it's slow, because it's federated and the only currently functioning server is written in Python.

[TehPlayer14]

17 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

Telegram is amazing but unfortunately it only supports 1x1 calls what decreases it's usefulness.

I recommend steam, it's up most of the time and has scheduled downtime everyweek to keep it working