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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by ctas on Sunday June 27, 2021 @04:49AM (#27649793)
> The initial suggestion was to use Discord, but I luckly averted that.

Why is Discord not a good choice in your opinion?

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by summm on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:23AM (#27650286)
I have some AdBlock and Anti-Tracker stuff configured. For each single login, discord makes me solve 2 captchas, enter my password twice and click on an emailed link. Fuck them.

On mumble however, I start the client and it just works. Also, it instantly reconnects should the connection break.

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by allyourhorses on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:15AM (#27651721)
This gave me a giggle, perfect sentiment IMHO. Discord is basically saying "fuck you" at least 4 times each time you login, and the only appropriate response absolutely should be "no, fuck you"
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by jayparth on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:39PM (#27669210)
I think I've had to login to Discord probably twice over the last four years
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by milankragujevic on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:51AM (#27650454)
It asks me the same even without adblock or tracker-blocker, because my IP address changes often. An annoying nightmare really when you "need" something from a Discord chat quickly. I stopped using it, insist on people emailing me or chatting on Telegram.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by xur17 on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:05PM (#27669469)
Has anyone found a good solution for paying for captcha solutions in your browser? I'm getting tired of solving captchas, and would pay a decent amount of money to be able to click one button and have it just solve it for me.

Can take a bit of time, but needs to be non-clunky.

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by ctas on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:46AM (#27650428)
I've made a similar experience with Discords login flow. It's definitely broken. Fair enough.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by yusi-san on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:50AM (#27650450)
Do you open it on Firefox with an ad blocker etc? If yes it may come from reCaptcha and not from Discord itself (I had the same issues on websites that use reCaptcha). However, if you use the discord app you may not need to solve a captcha.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by gkbrk on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:58PM (#27654211)
> It may come from reCaptcha and not from Discord itself

Unless Google is employing hackers to secretly integrate reCaptcha into other apps, it is coming from Discord no matter who creates the captchas

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by KeepFlying on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:34PM (#27657842)
It's probably from ReCaptcha, but Discord is the one deciding to use that service to protect their logins so they are ultimately responsible.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by toxik on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:30AM (#27650019)
If not for anything else, then because Discord is a service owned by somebody, Mumble isn’t. The free and open web depends on people using the Mumble model.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by southerntofu on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:12AM (#27650217)
It's a centralized, non-free service that feeds on people's data. That's horrible enough, but i'm guessing i can't even use it with a Tor browser? Mumble works plenty fine on the Tor network.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by paulcarroty on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:18AM (#27650608)
> can't even use it with a Tor browser?

You can, but it will be painful with captcha and email submit links for your new IPs.

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by southerntofu on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:06PM (#27652681)
I haven't used Discord previously so i wouldn't know, but i read they use WebRTC. If so, then it wouldn't work with Tor Browser at all, which is built without WebRTC support for privacy reason.

Please let me know if that's not the case.

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by lapnitnelav on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:49AM (#27650442)
On top of what has already been said, I found Mumble to be a better voice com tool than Discord, sound quality is better, shortcut mapping more extensive, etc ...

Discord having the slack-like features, video streaming and social networking integrated in a nice UI makes it a better all purpose consummer product unfortunately.

Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by vifon on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:31AM (#27650026)
For starters it's not free (as in freedom).
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by sneak on Sunday June 27, 2021 @09:44AM (#27651515)
They log all of the text chat, including DMs, so there are some major privacy implications.