• Konlanx@feddit.de
      101·
      1 year ago

      What alternative would you suggest if I just want to talk to my mates while gaming? I gave up on setting up TeamSpeak after like an hour and many crashes and errors. I was a TeamSpeak fan for many years when using windows, but on Linux I highly dislike it.

      • S410@kbin.social
        133·
        1 year ago

        Element has been working for me and my friends. At the moment, it just embeds Jitsi within the client to do group calls (which works fine. Jisti isn’t bad by any means), but native group calls are being worked on and are currently in beta!

        • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I wish they would work on proper voice channels like discord has. The whole ‘meeting room’ zoom call style thing is obnoxious to use, and the screen sharing has so much lag.

          • S410@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            There are “Video Rooms”. They’re in beta too.
            Also, screen sharing is done via the same platform agnostic web APIs every other Electron-based app uses, though.
            I got rid of screen capture induced lag by switching to Wayland.

        • Display Name@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          Calls should come any month now. element-x just works on voice messages. The app is already able to make calls, you may try it b starting a call here and opening the link with the app. Just the ui and the things surrounding it are missing.

      • lemonuri@lemmy.ml
        61·
        1 year ago

        If you just want to talk, mumble would be a very lightweight alternative.

      • zShxck@lemmy.ml
        72·
        1 year ago

        Mumble (is comoletely free software and has a better quality even than teamspeak)

        • bamboo@lemm.ee
          21·
          1 year ago

          And requires setting up and managing a server, which costs time and money and requires a certain degree of expertise. Also it can’t really be used as a primary chat app, so you still have to use another app for that. It also doesn’t support features like livestreams so that’s another application you may need.

      • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        There is a pretty similar looking and function called Revolt that could be useful for getting people that are used to Discord to switch. I think they also have a long goal of being able to send and receive messages and calls with Discord. Obviously they don’t have that atm, but it is open-source and nice to at least know about in the event a quick exodus of Discord is needed.

  • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
    311·
    1 year ago

    This news is notable because a mainstream proprietary software publisher has chosen to officially distribute using Flathub. I couldn’t care less about Discord, but it says a lot about Flathub’s mindshare. Proprietary publishers tend to pick AppImage, but this is the first publisher I know of that has chosen Flathub instead. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend.

    That being said, Cassidy obviously had a very active hand in convincing Discord to adopt the Flatpak package.

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
      7·
      1 year ago

      I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.

        • bamboo@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.

          Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.

          Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.

        • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbtEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Discord is going to stay king in terms of queer community as long as it’s the only chat app with Pluralkit. My polycule can’t use anything else.

            • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbtEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, I’m really looking forward to moving off Discord. The username change made the biggest difference to me, I lost the last of my trust in them to keep making user friendly decisions at that moment. But regardless of trust, my polycule needs a tool to differentiate headmates, and Discord is the only platform that has that so far. I know because I’ve looked. We’ll switch when a pluralkit equivalent is available

    • zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      just so people are aware:

      third party clients are against Discord’s ToS. with that out of the way, looks really cool and I’ll give it a try!

      • lud@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        I came here to complain about Flatpak vs. .deb, and left with a new thing to try.

        The Linux community in a nutshell.

        You could also cross over the last part and it would still fit right in.

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
        3·
        1 year ago

        While I often prefer native packages, running occasional proprietary software is one of the best use cases for flatpaks. I’d never install something like discord with root privileges.

        • IverCoder@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I just use Flatpak as much as possible even for FOSS unless it’s not an option (e.g. VS Code).

  • Link@rentadrunk.org
    151·
    1 year ago

    They haven’t updated their website yet. It still says to download the deb package or tar.gz package. No mention of the flatpak.

    Hopefully they update it at some point.

  • Quik@infosec.pub
    4·
    1 year ago

    FYI There are also open source discord clients available:

    • Discordo is a nice CLI to use Discord
    • ArmCord: Full Open Source Discord client with themes, etc.
    • gtkcord4 & gtkcord 3: Both are simple GTK Clients for Discord

    Third party clients are against Discord’s terms of service, so use at your own risk.

  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nice!

    Now I’ve just got to work out why mine has suddenly started crashing on startup with GPU errors.

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    Meeh, Void has it in the packages, but I don’t use it, too confusing for a messaging app if you ask me.

          • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
            31·
            1 year ago

            You got servers… I mean, if I wanted something IRC like, I’d be using IRC.

            And then there’s the left pane which I found totally confusing, had no idea what was going on there, notifications kept popping up, there was nothing in those chats or servers or whatever, and then there were ads, and… fuck, just too much noise for something that’s supposed to be fun…

            • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              Huh?

              So, first of all, Discord doesn’t have ads. Second of all, what, since IRC had servers in 1862 then no other chat platform can ever have them?

              I will say the notifications can be a bit annoying. There’s a setting to turn off the notifications, and one to turn off just the sounds, in the Notifications and Sounds categories in the settings, and I’d recommend to turn both off.

              By “left pane” do you mean the channels? Basically, Discord lets you create different servers which contain groups of people and channels. Within each server, there’s a list of text and voice channels (and now forum channels) to talk about different things.

              Discord can’t do much about there not being much in the servers you’re in, if nobody sends any messages then you won’t find any.

              • 0x4E4F@infosec.pubEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                Maybe it was ads from the game, IDK… cuz I think we were on their server.

                I’m just used to chat rooms being more IRC like, that’s all… this thing is supposed to be more advanced, but it was just more confusing for me.

                Yeah, that part was confusing to me… like how can I create a “server” on their server 🤨… we’re all basically on the same server, just in a different “virtual server” 🤔 🤷… IDK, it never made sense to me, cuz creating a server means something completely different in my mind, not just “right click --> new server”.

                Maybe I’m just old, IDK. In the end, we switched to Viber, one chat, simple, elegant, everyone had it instaled, end of story.

                Within each server, there’s a list of text and voice channels (and now forum channels) to talk about different things.

                Yeah, this was also confusing. I mean… come on, I’m not creating a freaking community here, we’re just discussing some shit from the game and having some fun from time to time, sharing memes and jokes, stuff like that, nothing serious, like that chat will be dead in a year (everyone migrates to another state in the end in the game), so why bother building this giant community, when everything will die down in a year or so anyway.

                Just way too complex for the thing we needed. Basic chat features, image/video sharing, that was all that was needed… servers, channels, communities… just way too much noise and clutter. I can understand the appeal for people that game 24/7, but I don’t so, digging into this, just so that i can write “get to x:y coords and destroy this fucker” or share a screenshot… I mean… it just wasn’t worth my time.

                • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, Discord servers are really meant for communities more than for being a group chat (although you can make group chats with up to ten people). Totally fair if multiple channels and stuff are more than you need.

    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
      1·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. I keep trying to use it because that’s where Opensim’s Metaverse Alliance landed when Google Groups shut down, but it’s way too noisy. I wish they’d just settled on a proper forum site like Delphi.