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.)

  • Ninmi
    16•3 years ago

    If it does not have communities with shared text and voice channels, then it’s not a Discord replacement.

    It does not matter if you think Discord’s features aren’t important. They matter to OP and they’re not here for Element because it does not have what Discord does.

      • Ninmi
        3•3 years ago

        No, you can’t. There’s no such features in Element and advertising it does is only going to lead to disappointed new users.

        Again, when Spaces land, then we can re-evaluate the situation.

          • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
            3•3 years ago

            Do you remember Mumble voice channel hierarchy in a server? With fast exchange and without having to start a call per room. They want that with video too (this is why Mumble is not a replacement for them too).

          • Ninmi
            2•3 years ago

            To emulate Element within Discord, all you need to do is make a new Discord “server” with one single text channel and just leave it at that.

            Obviously it’s no longer Discord with such limitations, but that’s Element in a nutshell.

              • SeerLite
                2•3 years ago

                Communities aren’t supported on mobile and aren’t part of the spec

                • Ninmi
                  2•3 years ago

                  And communities are simply glorified collections of channels without any of Discord’s features like access control with flairs and invites and such. The whole structure of a Discord “server” is wholly incompatible with the current community support.

                  Element devs themselves have stated they’re gonna burn community support with fire and replace it with Spaces.

      • @PureTryOut@lemmy.ml
        2•3 years ago

        There is no such thing as a voice or video channel in Matrix. Not yet at least. Communities are going to be replaced by Spaces soon btw.

          • SeerLite
            4•3 years ago

            There isn’t voice chats/channels in Matrix afaik, only calls. One time calls are not what people look for in Discord alternatives. The appeal of voice channels is that they’re always there and show who’s online with other people already or looking for a chat, with no one specific mind. It’s just like Mumble channels.

            I’m kinda confused why you keep saying Matrix/Element has features it clearly doesn’t.

              • SeerLite
                2•3 years ago

                A voice channel (or “call” if you wanna equate them) with no people won’t use any “tons of bandwidth” though. There’s literally no data being transferred. A voice stream doesn’t even have to be allocated (or whatever the right terminology is for that).

                EDIT: actually, you can just keep a call open indefinitely. I’m in a room that does this regularly. People hop in and out all the time.

                That’s interesting, I’ve never experimented with that. Still, people want an obvious equivalent to Discord voice channels. Calls aren’t voice channels, no matter how much you want them to be the same. At a technical level they’re the same yes, but the UX is completely different.

                Hell you could even say all they need to do to implement voice channels is at the client level because the server already kind of supports it through the Jitsi calls.