TheWankBank
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Post by TheWankBank on Jun 21, 2017 11:58:46 GMT
Would be cool if we moved from Teamspeak to discord, discord is much better to be honest. Just a thought, any opinions or objections?
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Post by Brady on Jun 21, 2017 12:00:38 GMT
Teamspeak is better from what I've used of it in MCEC Shenanigans. Discord is literally slack but with voice channels. There is a Stream Crew discord, but that is..... filled with...... you know who.
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TheWankBank
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Registered on: December 2016
Social Club: As-Anderson
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Post by TheWankBank on Jun 21, 2017 12:03:25 GMT
Yeah, I understand the concern, just that teamspeak seems and acts a bit meh, just plain old, it has bugged out for me several times.
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Post by Brady on Jun 21, 2017 12:16:32 GMT
Ive never had issues with it the few times I've used it.
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Post by Daleks (@darkalex45) on Jun 21, 2017 12:21:44 GMT
From what I've heard, discord doesn't handle big voice chats very well, which is the main problem. Other problems are more minor. Someone can probably say a lot more than me  |
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Post by FriendlyBaron on Jun 21, 2017 22:16:14 GMT
This comes up quite often, I need to put a FAQ somewhere...
- teamspeak uses less network for those with already poor connections
- teamspeak is less resource intensive for those with potato computers
- discord seems to correlate for me and a few others with disconnecting from gta lobbies while it is open.
- teamspeak has better permission management
- teamspeak has better capability for moving players around in playlists and events
- we have the Slack chat for text chat
- teamspeak has per channel chat, instead of globals
The first three are the most important and I could program some work arounds for the others if we needed, but its not worth moving right now. If everyone had good internet and pc specs we would probably move.
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TheWankBank
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Post by TheWankBank on Jun 25, 2017 16:13:17 GMT
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Post by SteveJEWBZ on Jun 26, 2017 17:17:46 GMT
K You can apply skins to your TS client if you think it looks outdated. |
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Tspoon
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Post by Tspoon on Jul 25, 2017 23:34:22 GMT
We had this same discussion in my WOWS/WOT/Warthunder clan and came to a similar conclusion. The permission management on teamspeak is so vastly superior to what discord has to offer that it is laughable. "But discord has a global chat and you dont have to be in voice to use it." Fair point about having to connect to voice to chat in some ways discord is a great community building too (here is where the TS + Slack combo really shines), but teamspeak also has a global chat as well as chat channels associated with the voice channels. So your memes are just links and people have to click them to see them. How barbaric. In response to Daleks (@darkalex45) I'm not sure I totally agree with this. Teamspeak auto mutes with 100+ clients in the same channel, you can remove this so it really isnt a big deal but if you dont know about it it can become an issue. Discord doesn't. Almost every Saturday for 2 months I was using a discord that regularly had about 30-40 people in the same channel with people moving around back and forth and we never ran into any issues and we were there for 3+ hours. What we were doing didnt require strong PCs so resources wernt an issue. The ease of use of bots in Discord is nice though. Another issue to mention. You can only be connected to 1 discord voice channel at a time. Teamspeak has the capability of multiple simultaneous connections. This is a big deal for some members including myself. I am regularly in need of being on multiple chats at the same time to keep in touch with different communities I am in as some have time sensitive issues. |
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Post by Daleks (@darkalex45) on Jul 26, 2017 1:11:39 GMT
We had this same discussion in my WOWS/WOT/Warthunder clan and came to a similar conclusion. The permission management on teamspeak is so vastly superior to what discord has to offer that it is laughable. "But discord has a global chat and you dont have to be in voice to use it." Fair point about having to connect to voice to chat in some ways discord is a great community building too (here is where the TS + Slack combo really shines), but teamspeak also has a global chat as well as chat channels associated with the voice channels. So your memes are just links and people have to click them to see them. How barbaric. In response to Daleks (@darkalex45) I'm not sure I totally agree with this. Teamspeak auto mutes with 100+ clients in the same channel, you can remove this so it really isnt a big deal but if you dont know about it it can become an issue. Discord doesn't. Almost every Saturday for 2 months I was using a discord that regularly had about 30-40 people in the same channel with people moving around back and forth and we never ran into any issues and we were there for 3+ hours. What we were doing didnt require strong PCs so resources wernt an issue. The ease of use of bots in Discord is nice though. Another issue to mention. You can only be connected to 1 discord voice channel at a time. Teamspeak has the capability of multiple simultaneous connections. This is a big deal for some members including myself. I am regularly in need of being on multiple chats at the same time to keep in touch with different communities I am in as some have time sensitive issues. I should just delete my comment tbf its useless xD |
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washposthero
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Post by washposthero on Apr 22, 2018 16:09:04 GMT
I have a question as I'm not very experienced with wide community gaming.
With me living in a house that has a fair connection, but multiple people using it, which tends to disconnect when there's alot of streaming and activity, would discord or any of these other apps/channels clog up that connection further? If it is like skype, I can only imagine it making the traffic worse. Are there any players who stick with the in game chat or party system? It all seems a bit over complicated. You have to trust these applications with your data and all. And there's the time and effort. I had to download Line the other day. I've used slack before with this crew, not that I got a response. And I'm looking at my phone all the time too. What's a slow old guy like me to do...
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Post by Brady on Apr 23, 2018 15:42:38 GMT
I have a question as I'm not very experienced with wide community gaming. With me living in a house that has a fair connection, but multiple people using it, which tends to disconnect when there's alot of streaming and activity, would discord or any of these other apps/channels clog up that connection further? If it is like skype, I can only imagine it making the traffic worse. Are there any players who stick with the in game chat or party system? It all seems a bit over complicated. You have to trust these applications with your data and all. And there's the time and effort. I had to download Line the other day. I've used slack before with this crew, not that I got a response. And I'm looking at my phone all the time too. What's a slow old guy like me to do... Slack is generally very well under traffic. Discord is worth getting to see. In my own experience the Discord move was made after my sister went to university so I can’t comment on the traffic usage. |
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