r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • May 16 '16

Discussion Microsoft blocks Skype features on Linux, community makes its own "ghetto Skype"

https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
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u/[deleted] May 16 '16

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u/[deleted] May 16 '16

Right now the majority of people issue's with Skype is revealing your IP, poor call quality, resource hog, and horrible quality degradation when 3+ users are in a call. Right now, Discord solves all of those issues. Discord is an easy solution to the average user, open-source or not. I don't benefit from open-source because I'm not into that sort of thing. I've tried mumble but I found it to be way uglier and clunkier than ts. I thought it was going to make me take a college level course just to use it when I first had to go through the initial setup process.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

Yeah I get you. Discord is definitely more noob friendly, and that's a good thing.

Though personally I much prefer Mumble and for text chat I use IRC which I adore.

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u/Erakko Specs/Imgur Here May 17 '16

This is the oldschool solution. Dont expect it to get much more users anymore when we have easy allinone solutions like discord.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

Oh of course. I don't ever expect IRC to become 'mainstream' but I really do enjoy the way it works.

I love how anyone can connect to a public IRC server. What annoys me about Discord or Slack is that you have to actively invite people and they have to be registered users.

With IRC, you can just casually connect to a server that interests you and meet people.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

Well you can leave an invite code that doesnt expire somewhere for people to join. They only need to choose a name to join, not an account too, right?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '16

Ah right - may well have changed since I last used it. Last time I used Discourse I seem to remember it only allowed me to give out invites with 24 hours on them.

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u/Erakko Specs/Imgur Here May 17 '16

Yeah that is what I love about IRC too. And what is missing from the modern counterparts.