TeamSpeak was never “here” in the first place, it certainly had its niche among certain gaming communities, but it - never - had as much traction as Discord does today.
I am sure a design refresh is going to lure some older gamers back, but I am unconvinced it’ll even make a dent in Discord usage.
“internet thing from 20 years ago was smaller than big, VC backed social media giant from today. Therefore, thing that was defacto standard 20 years ago was never relevant” is a hell of a take
Pc gaming was a lot smaller back then too. More serious communities all had a vent or teams peak. That only started to die down when xfire came out and brought anothed influx of non pc people (or someone thst only played one game like ever quest) into gaming spaces.
Less centralized services is a good thing. As long as self hosting isn’t intentionally worse in some way I see this as a great thing for competition. I don’t want discord viewing my data, and I don’t want to pay them to be able to share a video over 8mb with what is essentially the new form of group chat for a lot of people.
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TeamSpeak was never “here” in the first place, it certainly had its niche among certain gaming communities, but it - never - had as much traction as Discord does today. I am sure a design refresh is going to lure some older gamers back, but I am unconvinced it’ll even make a dent in Discord usage.
“internet thing from 20 years ago was smaller than big, VC backed social media giant from today. Therefore, thing that was defacto standard 20 years ago was never relevant” is a hell of a take
Even 20 years ago im applications with voice support had hundreds of millions of users. Msn messenger at its peak had 300 million active users.
Pc gaming was a lot smaller back then too. More serious communities all had a vent or teams peak. That only started to die down when xfire came out and brought anothed influx of non pc people (or someone thst only played one game like ever quest) into gaming spaces.
Less centralized services is a good thing. As long as self hosting isn’t intentionally worse in some way I see this as a great thing for competition. I don’t want discord viewing my data, and I don’t want to pay them to be able to share a video over 8mb with what is essentially the new form of group chat for a lot of people.
There weren’t nearly as many gamers as there are today back when TS was the main software of choice either.
Plus because discord had chat rooms and video calls and stuff, it became popular for lots of groups outside of gaming.