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Mumble chat plugin5/13/2024 ![]() Scrolling through chat history is also incredibly slow (especially if you have to scroll more than a little, as it slows down significantly when you scroll back a certain amount and it has to load the chat history from the server). The Discord client has rudimentary search capability but you have to be online and connected to the Discord server you want to search to use it, and there's no guarantee it'll continue to work indefinitely, and if you ever leave that server your ability to search it is gone. (The closest I've come is copying and pasting text out of it, screen by screen, which is a very long and tedious process.) But as far as I know there's no way to do that. I want to archive all the channels I'm in, so I can search the archives offline using regular text search tools. My main problem with Discord is that I can't get logs out of it. I'm so glad I don't have to be in Warcraft guild Facebook groups anymore! ![]() I recognise there is a bunch of issues with discord, I've had it have complete melt downs when the voice systems have broken, it can be a real resource hog, and don't get me started on the security and privacy (it's not great), however because of the additional functionality I still think it's a great bit of software. In my experience, discord was better than the previous options for a few reasons.Ī) it's free, as opposed to a vent or TS server, which while they are not expensive, it's still a barrier to setting one up.ī) the free tier has quite a lot of functionality without paying for servers, even for a lot of players (like a World of Warcraft guild).Ĭ) it merged voice Comms with a community hub where people could communicate and share things relevant to their game (to use the WoW scenario again, raid organising, upcoming patch discussion, guides and other helpful information) in an organised and central location. People sacrifice a good bit of everything else, just to get a better UX, and the more developers realize this, the more potential their projects have to succeed. But if someone wants to make FOSS successful, they better focus on the user experience. ![]() ![]() I can see FOSS software outperform Discord, if you pick an aspect, like "low latency audio". With a buttery smooth transition to both. And you have several ways to "upgrade", you can register your handle, download and use the desktop app. You click on an invite link, it only asks you a handle, and bam, you land on the server, ready to go. The other thing is that joining is like zero effort. For one, Discord must have a serious backend and constant support to back this all up. Surely it was a bit of time to get the hang of their UX, but I can't seriously see _any_ FOSS software to do audio, video, screen sharing, IM with groups and users, all packed into a nice consistent package. Discord is featureful and each feature is only a couple of clicks away, and every nitty-gritty is nicely abstracted away under the UI. I don't know how the commenters below you miss your point consistently. That doesn't cover every corner case, and it is one more notch on your "Duplicate certificate count" rate limit if you do have an HTTPS web site on the same name from Let's Encrypt, but I'd guess 95% of users who have a working Murmur and either a Dynamic DNS setup or their own "proper" DNS setup would get a working system and a further fraction would have some trivial problem they'd fix and after that it would Just Work™. This machine is the web server, so, have the user tell us how to pass http-01 challenges on that existing web server. There is no web server for this DNS name, spin up a temporary web server, answer Let's Encrypt queries until they give you a certificate, then spin it back downĢ. Unlike a web server, the Mumble server can't trivially bake the elements needed for this into its functionality, but it shouldn't have a hard time in the two easy cases:ġ. In this case Let's Encrypt is quite happy to give you a certificate for since you control it. dyndns.example might be on the PSL and then you can have your server be named when you call their dynamic DNS service. Most dynamic DNS providers got a default shared domain name added to the Public Suffice List e.g. Most people do set up at least a dynamic DNS of some sort.
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