https://docs.spacebar.chat/faq/
Currently there is no voice or video support in any Spacebar instance. This is a very difficult feature to get working, especially given that we must implement it the exact same way as Discord.com for client compatibility. We would be incredibly thankful for any assistance.
Damn.
Discuss without voice, might aswell use IRC
Yeah I'd love to move my gang off discord but getting them to go back to team speak or vent is not happening
Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.
If only it didn't looked like a 20 year old software.
Some of the best stuff in the world looks like it's 20 years past a prime that isn't, because they're truly good eternal.
Maybe it's just me but I think the Mumble UI is way better than the Discord UI
I don't know about the UX, but if you want peoples to use your app, it need to look nice.
oh no!! good thing that doesn't impact anything
Especially on mobile.
Same, if only teamspeak supported screen sharing / streaming, then it would be fine.
My group is on Teamspeak. They are supposedly adding it this year, but it's been radio silence for months.
Well the minute they do and it works for sharing videos as well so we can watch YouTube as a group then we will drop discord super quick. I won’t want to host it at mine but I’ll happily pay for a vps for it.
Why not just use Matrix? I thought it was the goto FOSS and decentralized Discord alternative.
Matrix doesn't offer the same experience as discord. I'm sorry but it doesn't. I set up my own to compare to see if my friend group would like it, and it was quite a step backwards. Even in it's best platform element it was missing a lot of stuff from discord.
So, things like this I'd be very interested to watch. Revolt looked the most promising but it didn't offer federation, and I wasn't going to make everyone have a separate accountjust for our server
So this will be interesting. I will need at least voice to get them to come over, but I'll watch this project closely
Voice & screensharing seems to be the thing holding all of my friends chained to discord
I mean, it's a valid reason. I originally joined Discord back in 2016 because of it's easy to use voice. It became the standard for voice chat. Before that I had been using the Xbox party chat and other garbage voice systems.
We were using Skype... Dark days.
Element seems to have voice and video chats in beta right now, and they plan to implement it into the Element application, so it looks like it is on the way at least.
I think the original question could be about the protocol. Why not use Matrix as the protocol for the project? No one is doing the work to bring a Matrix-based Discord alternative because they're a) on Discord b) creatin IRC face-lifts like Element c) refusing to quit IRC d) making projects with bespoke protocols like this one. It's incredibly frustrating.
i can agree with regards to a proper threads/forum feature which is not that amazing in element right now… but it appears we are moving fast towards element call integration everywhere. this means p2p video rooms if i am not mistaken. is there something else except user friendliness in ux that could be better?
Spacebar looks great, and is exactly what I want, but it doesn't look close to production ready yet
I've been trying to find a more privacy-friendy alternative to Discord but I keep coming back to the issue of screen sharing. No other platform does it as smoothly.
The best I've found is using Parsec with some virtual audio cables to avoid voice feedback.
Why pick this over ArmCord?
Armcord is a discord client. Spacebar is a discord alternative (server+client)
Just now heard of armcord which I'm going to give a shot on Linux here soon but looks like armcord is just a client, while this is a server as well.
There is also vesktop on Linux aswell witch is what I use. But I've tried armcord and webcord before.
is it… of value having something like this while matrix and element is a thing? i find these things interesting, but not sure if they are justifyable to deploy…
For me, the benefit of discord is not the text chat but the voice aspect. With push to talk/voice activated transmission and low latency for gaming.
The voice features of matrix are more of a conference call thing.
Until this gets implemented in matrix (not sure if ever) I'll continue hosting mumble (or TeamSpeak)
interesting... but i understand the appeal of quickly jumping into a voice room. other than that, of course not as fancy of a ux experience, mumble would be quite suitable here... .
This is cool to see, though I am sceptical, if it is a good idea to create a drop-in discord server, because this does not allow for the project to add E2EE "easily" without eliminating the drop-in capability.
It's a convenience over privacy thing. If the api is discord compatible you lose the e2e on that channel / server, or make the api e2e but then existing bots need modifying
I could see this being a toggle
That would require a custom client and eliminate the drop in feature. Sadly just adding a toggle does not work :/
what about the screen sharing? muble for voice, matrix for communication but i cant find any suitable replacement for video
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