Discover the exciting new features of TeamSpeak 6, including a complete redesign, screen sharing capabilities, and community server management, all aimed at improving user experience in gaming communication.

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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Team speak? What year is it?
I remember hosting a teamspeak server for folks I played Wolfenstein: ET with. In the early 2000's.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Next week, let's bring back Ventrilo!

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  • [–] 80 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    Still closed source proprietary software, but good for them.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    Still better than Discord's age verification

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Until it's just as bad. Just move to Stoat (formerly Revolt) or Fermi.chat and save yourself the headache of another centralized platform going to shit.

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

    I've been following Stoat, their documentation states that self hosted voice channels don't work (I think their official server does though), and also you have to recompile their client software to hard code the link to your server.

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

    That feels so much like niche coder hobbyist hurdles that I really doubt people en masse would make the switch by themselves.

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  • Yeah I'm really hoping they just add a button in the client to connect to a custom server (like how Bitwarden works), as well as actually update the self hosting images and instructions. I've been keeping tabs on them for almost a year now, and still no progress on that front.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    As someone else said, stoat isnt federated. It also doesnt have E2EE. Meaning in practice, you are still using a centralized service that can enshitify. You could self host, but your friends aren't going to switch to your small self hosted instance if everyone is on the central server.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Or Matrix, which is federated.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    It's decentralized, not federated I thought...? Are there other services that use the Matrix protocol?

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

    Federated means that different servers can talk to each other and decentralized means that there is no server.

    There is also nothing stopping someone from using the Matrix protocol to create another service, though I don't know of one that exists.

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

    and decentralised means there is no server

    no, it means there's no central server. You still need a Matrix server to handle communications, but there's no "central matrix server", the servers discover each other based on a baked-in "known good" server list + ad-hoc discovery (e.g. if a server has a group chat with a member of a server your server doesn't know yet, and you join that group chat, your server and the unknown one exchange metadata and so on).

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

    Having tried it:

    Voice chat is flawless

    Video chat/streaming is arguably better than discord*

    Text chat leaves a LOT to be desired. Its there, I guess.

    *on linux YMMV

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Have they released the server parts of TS6 yet? Last I checked, it wasn't available on the download page.

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  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago*

    Jesus, it's like !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de: MFs will really do anything to avoid switching to an alternative that's actually Free Software.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    good because it looked like it was designed in the 1940s

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  • [+] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Reading their site has me a little confused. Do you have to pay to rent a server if all you want to do is make a group to voice chat with a few friends?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    What's next, Ventrilo?

    Vi sitter här I venten och spelar lite DotA (I hear you, man)

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

    Does it still look like it’s designed for Windows 98?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    They have been making advances in their UI design but now it feels like a ‘modern’ late 200’s UI. Would be nice if the UX was properly developed to modern standards so that neurotypical non-techie people could use it.

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