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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
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[–] 33 points 9 months ago (11 children)

What I really need is realtime multi-party voice chat

Do any of these support that?

I mostly use discord for light coordination and online voice chat during games or activities.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Steam's built in voice chat replaced discord for my group of friends years ago. It was rough at first, but it has improved a lot and now we dont have issues anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Technically, Signal, Rocket Chat, and Matrix all have multi-party voice chat built in. You probably won't have a great time with it, and if you want video or screen sharing, you'll have an even worse time.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Just tested out element and had no problem with screen sharing + video in a voice call. Haven't tried out the mobile app for that (but I haven't done that for discord either and on desktop, discord just doesn't screenshare like half the time for me)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I'm kind of shocked if you had a decent/superior time and Element vs Discord, especially if you're in Windows! This is a case where I hope I can be proven wrong.

    Discord facilitates large audio and video calls, but if Element can manage even a handful of people at once, I would be impressed. In my experience, it hasn't, but such things are kind of hard to test.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't that a multi-way call? Everything else is covered by forums (permanent) or IRC/Matrix/XMPP (quick)

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