Of course there’s room for UX improvements, and there’s more work involved in using it since the server is self hosted, but once you have it going it does a thing and does it well.

The feature that got us on the mumble train years ago was how well it auto-balances the sound volume coming from different users. Other software we tried at the time you’d have some people much louder than others. This is probably pretty standard by now though.

EDIT: missed edit window on my parent comment, but a funny note related to Electron system resource usage. In addition to the RAM thing, it's based on Chromium which means it's using the GPU for rendering. There's an option in the config to disable this, otherwise it makes you exit the Discord client when you install GPU driver updates.

Not a huge deal, but it feels real silly when you get that popup. Like "I get that I need to close games to update GPU drivers, but my voice chat? Really?"

They actually update this in the newer builds so you can finally set per-user volume controls, after years of hating on that :)

> I don't know reposting memes off of reddit in the chat channels.

I'd love if that was it. It's when you see horrifying 4chan greentext that I start to cringe.

Overwatch has voice in-built that is very good both for public games, parties and teams - why need Mumble at this point?

Mostly the consistency, we play other games too with varying quality (or nonexistent) in game voice, so it’s convenient to just have a server that we connect to and use regardless of what game we’re playing.

For an Overwatch specific if more unusual use case, if you want to have a group of 12 people organizing private 6v6 matches, this is much easier to coordinate when you can all hop into a single shared voice channel between matches to chat, talk trash, reshuffle teams, etc.

I haven't used the Overwatch/Blizzard voice chat but can people outside of the game talk to people playing?