Its looking like Microsoft is gonna buy Discord. Preferably open source, and has a big userbase, and has Windows and Linux option. (but mainly windows because i only game on windows now.)

  • poVoq
    1•3 years ago

    Replacing a single Discord guild with a few hundred users is easily possible with a self-hosted IRC service. By using Oragono + Convos it is also quick and relatively easy as that is pretty much all you need (plus Mumble for voice chat), at least not any harder than Matrix, while being much lighter on server resources.

    • CULTPONY
      1•3 years ago

      We’re talking 5000+ users, not a few hundreds. A community that has to constantly take attacks from 4chan and other vile places of the internet. I do not believe IRC would be the tool for managing this community not only coherently but as a unit.

      Mumble solves audio chat, but not screencasting, which we often have in the game related channels. Audio chats routinely hold more than 20 users, with one or two people screencasting at 1080p30. Even if we used mumble, it would split the community from IRC as the people on Mumble can’t coherently interact with IRC in the same client.

      • poVoq
        1•3 years ago

        There are good bridges between Mumble chat and IRC.

        Screencasting… hmm. Would probably be not very hard to implement in a webclient, but yeah that doesn’t exists right now AFAIK. But I think Peertube is working on a chat addition that is based on XMPP/IRC/Matrix (not sure).