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Matt Lorentz · 3w
While I put the finishing touches on Horcrux I'm starting to contribute to Flotilla, and one of my goals is to get Discord-style voice channels added before their age-verification policies go into eff...
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I'd advise against it, it's all about latency, discord voice is 90% for gaming, a world where 75ms latency is okay but 150ms is unacceptable. There's non gaming discussions, but a lot of them are just getting ready for a session, or post-session, you still need the session. Unless you put a big disclaimer do not attempt to use this for abcd, in conditions 1234, etc. I'd stay far away. Their voice chats, like those of Kick or Twitch, have over the years become just so insanely complex and latency optimised at every possible point.
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TheGrinder · 3w
Yeah it will be a challenge to compete. In particular in gaming latency in voice defeats the purpose of having voice Comms in the first place. You also need push-to-talk, voice activation for people with good mics, noise cancellation and - ideally - the ability to set the region for the voice serve...
Matt Lorentz · 3w
Hm, yeah I'm not thinking of gamers specifically. But reading about Discord's tech makes it clear that it's very difficult to do well. I self-host a teamspeak server for my gaming friends and it works well enough. It would be nice to have better chat integrated in (like Discord) but other than that...