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minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·6 months agoVentrilo looks someone’s bad first open source project, but it’s proprietary. The audio quality must be orgasmic for people to use it.
minus-squareDiva (she/her)@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoit’s what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak
minus-squareKaryoplasma@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoIt was XFire -> TS -> Vent -> Skype -> Discord for me.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoSo like XMPP, SIP, Mumble, or Matrix without the chat part.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·6 months agoNothing. Like, absolutely nothing. It didn’t keep up with the times. I spent am untold amount of time on IRC, but the fact that you have to be online to have a chance to read messages just doesn’t jive with most people’s schedules anymore.
minus-squareTelex@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 months agoSpam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn’t really handle being mobile or disconnected without some sort of proxy. Among other things. It’s still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoAudio quality Teamspeak3, Discord and Mumble all use Opus Voice Teamspeak2 and Ventrilo used Speex and eventually CELT. CELT is decent but Opus is better. WIth current hardware and cheap hosting, setting Opus Voice to max quality is best.
Ventrilo looks someone’s bad first open source project, but it’s proprietary. The audio quality must be orgasmic for people to use it.
it’s what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak
It was XFire -> TS -> Vent -> Skype -> Discord for me.
RIP XFire
So like XMPP, SIP, Mumble, or Matrix without the chat part.
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Nothing. Like, absolutely nothing. It didn’t keep up with the times. I spent am untold amount of time on IRC, but the fact that you have to be online to have a chance to read messages just doesn’t jive with most people’s schedules anymore.
Spam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn’t really handle being mobile or disconnected without some sort of proxy. Among other things.
It’s still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.
Audio quality
WIth current hardware and cheap hosting, setting Opus Voice to max quality is best.