Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
by superkuh on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:28PM
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It's too bad Teamspeak stopped existing as the excellence it was in the Teamspeak 2/3 era. By the end of TS3 they had already implemented nagware that would kill TS3 servers every $x months unless you reinstalled $latest. And now with Teamspeak 5 it's just Matrix. And Matrix is a super heavy protocol. You can't just spin up a matrix server on some random low end VPS with 512 MB of ram.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
by justaj on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:57PM
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> And Matrix is a super heavy protocol. You can't just spin up a matrix server on some random low end VPS with 512 MB of ram.
That's not the fault of the "heavy" protocol, but the implementation of it. As of now there's only 1 reference server implementation which is written in Python (Synapse), but https://conduit.rs/ and Dendrite are making good progress to be able to run on embedded devices.
Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat
by Avi0n on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:23PM
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TS5 is matrix? I’ve been using the TS5 beta client for over a year and I’ve been able to connect to my old TS3 server with no problems, both audio and text. I wasn’t aware there was a new TS5 server either, I thought they were going to keep the current one.
- Native UI: everything happens instantly
- Lightweight client
- The ability to host your own server
Even initial setup difficulties had an upside. More often than not, those who weren't capable of properly setting things up also weren't the right fit to play seriously/competitively. Such little barriers were a great initial filter for toxic wannabes with short attention span.