Re:Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
by duskwuff on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:11AM
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Keep in mind that a major use case for Discord is open voice chats (e.g, for gaming groups), not just organized person-to-person calls. Having the quality for a whole chat drop just because someone joined from a mobile phone would be a really disappointing user experience.
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This is absolutely something that Discord does, though. I've had friends just drop the bitrate slider as low as possible in Discord just to make the whole channel sound awful
Re:Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
by caffeinewriter on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:51PM
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That's a channel-specific option though. You can set per-channel bitrate, but it's not something Discord does automatically to accommodate lower throughput clients.