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What’s wrong with team speak? It was a good service circa 2006. And I don’t see how it is significantly less valuable to the “gaming” community. I know it isn’t as feature rich and discord has evolved a lot from its “gamer” origins. I see it used for all kinds of community’s as a catch all system. I guess that is good, but I don’t get much value from it being a centralized point of community building.
Discord is an evolutionary culdesac if we're talking about its role as a forum killer. It's terrible for long term information storage and retrieval compared to the more permanent, and search engine indexed, forums it replaced. It's a never ending waterfall of chat messages that's hard to search, so the same questions keep coming up again and again.
I tried asking a question on Blender Guru's discord about his doughnut tutorial, on the channel specifically meant for questions about the doughnut tutorial, and it flew off the top of the screen like a barrel going over Niagara Falls, never to be seen again.
It's disgusting yeah. I try to avoid projects where Discord is their only news and/or support outlet.
Imo the biggest problem with Teamspeak is that it still requires an active connection to the server at all time.. So unless your computer is on with the app opened 24/7 you may miss messages. That may or may not be an issue, but you may miss messages that your friends send to the group when you aren't actively online.
Frankly the UI of TeamSpeak is ageing as well, and there is value in for instance being able to simply attach a screenshot directly in a Discord chat without having to upload it to some external service.
They have acknowledged the offline messaging part. It does work in group chats and has E2EE there, but I think it's something they are going to look into for servers. It's closed source, so we are at the mercy of their few developers and cannot help. While I do trust them more than Discord, I would rather have an open solution, like Stoat/Fluxer, take off instead.
Check out the Teamspeak6 beta. I don't know about offline messages but it addresses all your other complaints. I moved to it from Mumble somewhat recently and have been very happy with it.
It used to be packaged with Overwolf, that was the dealbreaker for me back then.