Please understand that I’m not a programmer and so this is probably a really dumb question, but Mumble works so great for voice chat and it already has text chat capabilities. It could just do with a UI refresh and maybe some added functionality to really provide a much better alternative to Discord. Any thoughts?
Mumble is great, but there are some things that people have come to expect from group chat services that it is not designed to do. For example, running in a web browser, persistent message history, and multi-device access to a single account. Adding such things would be no small amount of work, which is probably the main rason it hasn’t been done. (And, of course, the changes required would make the result incompatible with Mumble.)
Considering what exists today, I think Matrix has the best chance at becoming a Discord alternative. It already has a lot of the needed features, The new voice/video system (now in beta) looks very promising. And, of course, it also supports self-hosting and end-to-end encryption, both of which Discord lacks.
Okay, what’s the biggest and most active gamer community on Matrix? In fact, what’s the biggest and most active community for anything, not counting software developers, on Matrix? I’ve tried using Matrix many, many times. It’s a ghost town if you’re not a software developer. It’s not a viable replacement for Discord. At least not by user count. Why is that? I’m sure I’ll get slammed with nasty replies for this, but I’m just telling the truth. Have at me, if you will.
As far as I know, https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/ . I’m sure it’s not as active as whatever Discord communities you’re in but it’s fairly active and actually friendly.
Last I checked matrix only supported calls, not voice rooms you can freely join and leave
I guess you haven’t checked recently, then. :)
https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-element-call/
https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/README.md
Fuck yeah