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I’m in my mid thirties and I sure as hell am not giving my identity documents to a service that gets hacked every other week
May as well go on the dark web and add your personal info to the latest database dump from whatever hackers. Will be funny once the credit reporting agencies get all the identity theft fraud from the leaked data. Of course, they’ve been breached themselves probably more than some gamer chat forum because their security is a joke. It’s like at this point, the only reason not to post your personal info is so you don’t get swatted when you make a comment someone doesn’t like about Nicki Minaj or some other asshole.
Slight correction:
Team speak is voice mainly, but yea.
TS6 supposedly has screenshare. Big drawback from my view right now is no mobile client 😕 still, probly gonna be switching any day now, at least for gaming sessions!
Oh no, so I won’t get to see that one person who is always the only person who turns their camera on so you get to see a live feed of their messy bedroom, weirdly harsh lighting and piles of junk while they try to eat dinner while playing video games.
Me and my friends use it to stream our gameplay or watch movies and stuff together. Nothing else I’ve seen really allows you to do that easily.
As an old: You kids and your TeamSpeak … back in my day Ventrilo, and we were happy to have it! (uphill both ways or something about my lawn).
You think that’s old? Let’s talk ICQ.
This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.
In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.
Yeah back on the days of analogue telephone lines every phone number ultimately required 2 copper wires going all the way from the nearest local exchange to the telephone handset in the home or business, so many smaller towns and rural areas got party lines as a way to save on copper and switching costs. Instead of a dedicated pair of copper wires to every house with a phone, all of the houses on a given block were on one line (all on one electrical circuit), so you’d pick up the phone and be able to talk to (or listen to) your other neighbors without dialing.
Edit to add: in some rural areas they’d even use the barbed wire fences already at farms as a wire for delivering telephone service instead of running new phone lines, sometimes even using Single Wire Earth Return to further reduce copper requirements
If you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously.
Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB.
We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.
Discord is shit as a forum anyway - it’s a chat room.
It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.
Matrix + Element.
It’s open source, decentralized (federated), supports voice/video, roles, persistent rooms, and you can self-host if you want full control. It’s basically the only thing that feels like a real discord replacement without being locked into one company’s servers.
I installed this yesterday and couldn’t find one room related to video games that had any chat messages in the past few years. I put a message in anyway, but not optimistic.
be the change you wish to see in the world.
now is the perfect time to assist in this developing landscape and make into something we can actually call our own.
We have to invade and propogate!
