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Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming (www.techradar.com)
submitted 5 days ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Mumble is much better for gaming. It's lightweight and doesn't use the GPU at all. Since it's self hosted, there is no ID verification.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (11 children)

    Mumble is also ONLY voice chat. The problem is that Discord is so many useful things at the same time - text chat, voice chat, video chat, and game streaming, all integrated together seamlessly - that it's hard to move off of when you need a whole suite of applications to replace it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    This is not true. Mumble does text chat as well. Please don't spread misinformation.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    I'm not sure you could say that Mumble does text chat. What it has barely qualifies as text chat at all, much less fully-featured text chat. It exists as much to communicate system messages as anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (6 children)

    It's no where near as well integrated though is it? Unless they have completely revamped the client.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    I'm not sure what you mean by a text chat functionality being more or less integrated? Integrated with what? OP stated that Mumble exclusively does voice chat, which is simply wrong. You can send text messages to users and channels.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    I assume they want a fully rich text channel: Markdown, embedded images/audio, reactions, code blocks, URL previews, etc.

    They won't be happy returning to a text channel which is just text.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

    Sure, that doesn't mean that Mumble doesn't have text chat though, does it?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    It does mean that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    Why would it? How am I sending text messages to multiple users and channels daily, if Mumble doesn't do text chat? Please explain to me what kind of black magic I am channeling.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 hours ago

    Because every modern chat application allows for more than text chat. Sure the name is 'text chat' so you can take that literally and say "if it allows you to send text its text chat". Its like a phone, if I say here is a phone and hand someone a landline they're gonna be like wtf.

    I see this all the time with IRC, people will say lets move to IRC and the discord users will use irc for 5 mins and say its shit because its missing every single basic feature let alone the ones that actually make a platform enticing.

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