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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by lazzlazzlazz on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:03PM (#13982700)
I used to use Mumble and Discord's superiority in almost every regard is so obvious that all I can say is "you need to adjust your glasses".
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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by shuntress on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:58AM (#13987522)
I'll accept the 'adjust your glasses' for Discord's memory footprint. The fact that discord takes up 3x-10x more space than Mumble really isn't a big deal with a modern machine in 2017.

My real gripe is with all the small things.

Mumble can text-to-speech the names of people as they join/leave the voice channel.

Mumble includes timestamps on chat messages.

Mumble timestamps messages when users join/leave/mute/unmute.

Mumble has 'advanced' input options for voice-detection.

Discord doesn't currently do any of that. Unless I just can't find the right configuration.

For me, these small "Only notice when they aren't there" things are not outweighed by Discord's general ease-of-use.

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