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How come nobody has forked Mumble to create a better Discord alternative? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by CptHacke@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Please understand that I'm not a programmer and so this is probably a really dumb question, but Mumble works so great for voice chat and it already has text chat capabilities. It could just do with a UI refresh and maybe some added functionality to really provide a much better alternative to Discord. Any thoughts?

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[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did find out recently that the team behind the Element Matrix client made Element Call and integrated it into their apps recently, but I've never used it personally. Have you used it? How was it?

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used it when it was a seperate thing and it had frequent disconnects or at least moments where I couldn't hear the other person.

However, I don't tend to use Element for Matrix as it's large, slow, bloated, has a bad UI and UX, and ironically despite all that doesn't have all the features I want or need (such as spoilers, multi account in one app/window or easy custom emoji/stickers).

Not sure I'd count Element Call as 'between servers' though, maybe it is but I will have to look into it to make sure.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hm, hopefully Discord takes awhile to enshittify. Sounds like the current solutions need time to polish up.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Though we have never used discord due to its lack of e2ee in text messages, requiring a phone number in some circumstances, that shitty nitro thing and personally because we don't like group chats that much unless they are small and only people we already know.

Plus ioo it has already enshitified with an LLM, and other things that cannot be turned off.