Discord

JustinPierce 2015-08-26 13:16:14 UTC #1

It's like Slack + Mumble. They say they're working on an API and I'd love to implement it in-game. I have a server setup here if you want to mess around with it: https://discord.gg/0To5qNXMv0nJ38c1

Grandy 2015-08-26 15:09:23 UTC #2

I have to say this looks promising.
Better than IRC at any rate, nice that you can connect/disconnect from voice chat instantly too.. all in one place.
Good notifications as well.

Tank 2015-08-26 17:06:45 UTC #3

I've been using it sometimes over the past few weeks, it's nice.

JustinPierce 2015-08-27 18:23:59 UTC #4

I like it, but not being able to integrate it into the game is a dealbreaker, so for now I'm just going to keep using IRC.

Grandy 2015-08-27 19:30:04 UTC #5

The fact I could login and see your messages sitting there... really nice.
Perhaps you could just get a Nordicbot for the channels we have? That can keep logs and stats etc.

JustinPierce 2015-08-27 19:36:24 UTC #6

Yeah I definitely want to explore IRC bots. I know next to nothing about them at the moment so if someone wants to help with that, that'd be great.

Grandy 2015-08-27 20:06:49 UTC #7

http://www.nordicbots.com/

That's what I've used in the past.
You can make the logs public or private/restricted, same with the stats.

Pumpelche 2015-09-16 20:35:19 UTC #8

I can definitely suggest this - tried it now often and it's not just real pretty to look at and use but handy and with nice and trimmed down and to-the-point functions. That it's web based is even better.

JustinPierce 2015-09-27 15:18:40 UTC #9

So, I'm reconsidering my stance on IRC/Discord. Thinking IRC is just too cumbersome and that even if IRC is implemented in-game, Discord will probably get used more thanks to the apps and better usability. Hopefully the upcoming API will let me do what I want in-game too. Anybody have reasons opposing moving to Discord?

Grandy 2015-09-27 15:21:08 UTC #10

I find Discord pretty nice to use, no complaints here!

Tank 2015-09-27 15:22:53 UTC #11

Mumble and IRC all in one.

Fixious 2015-09-28 07:12:06 UTC #12

It's not too bad, but I haven't really used it for gaming yet. Still using TS3 since we have no real need to switch, plus having sub-channels is sort of required for Legions. But it would be simpler to have one program for both VOIP and IRC. Just gotta make sure people know about it, and have a link to it in-game (like the current Mumble link).