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You mean to say XMPP (eg.: Snikket + Conversations), right?
i like how light it is, but its just not sufficient for a 5 person DnD/gaming group like mine.
Not sufficient as in not sufficiently light? IRC (eg.: ngircd) is even lighter!
no no, i mean not sufficient in the way that cant handle voice and video calls with a stable connection between multiple people.
we wanted a discord alternative that allowed us most or all of the features of discord for our DnD campaigns and streaming to one another. it just wasnt stable for more than two or three people. let alone five lol.
not dissing it though, light tools always have their place. its just difficult enough trying to explain to a passive group of 30+ year olds that discord is the devil and we need to own the means of communication without offering a smooth(ish) transition process with similar quality and features.
Oooh!
If it wasn't closed-source I'd actually recommend Teamspeak for that use case. Elsewise, of the ones I've known personally the stablest would be Mumble, but the problem is the clients.
It's also important to recall that if we want to look for alternatives we have to be very willing to look for stuff that's not Discord 1:1 because otherwise what would be the point. Plus, it's unfair of us to ask full equivalence from hobbyist developers to match what a corporation that is selling our data to ensure cash flow can do.