I have many issues with skype and microshit but all my friends use skype. Need an alternative that has skype features but isn't shit so that they can be converted
Need:
>voip that doesn't bomb your internet
>quality video chat
>text chat transfers between computers
>good group chat functionality
Said friends don't give a shit about privacy so encryption is only a bonus, not a selling point.
discord
>>51933619
https://ring.cx/
They had a webapp web.linphone.org you could use, but they literally discontinued it today (https://www.linphone.org/news/41/26/Linphone-web-forced-discontinuation.html)
https://linphone.org
https://ostel.co
Let's you install your own server + webapp with Kamailio +Ruby on Rails
>>51933641
This is looking great so far, it may be exactly what we're looking for. This is also nifty since there are a lot of cases where people will need to be in a voip call only once or twice, so the browser functionality is good.
>>51933687
none of that looks bad, but how polished are they? couple of friends and I tried out tox earlier since we heard good things about it, but it's definitely not at that level of polish yet and is a bit buggy. I also need to emphasize the ease of use that's going to be required; my casual friends aren't gonna want to jump through hoops to get this shit to work
>>51933619
In order of quality:
>Tox (https://tox.chat)
>Firefox Hello
>Google Hangouts
Mumble
>>51933846
Ring is tox level of alpha
Linphone and Ostel are production ready
Dolby axon is nice, although not meeting some of your criteria
>>51934058
+1 for this. Setting up a server is also fucking easy.
>>51933619
Get other friends without skype
Telegram maybe?
>>51933876
>google hangouts
really that made your short list...
>>51934760
what's wrong with hangouts?
>>51933641
I tried out discord and the audio servers did not work at all. Neither my friends nor I could chat, kept getting "No Route" with no evident solution upon googling. Not a good first impression, though it did look pretty.
>>51933641
No video calls
>>51933876
Nobody uses Firefox
>>51935146
and Google Hangouts uses 100% CPU
>>51934184
No video calls, discord is better than axon though
>>51934702
No Audio or Video calls
If telegram were to add these on a desktop client along with their mobile clients, they could take a large chunk of Skype's market
Is there any other benefit to mumble over Discord now, except
>Open source
And discord requiring no setup and is free.
jitsi
>>51935231
Mumble isn't LE EBIN GAYMER CHAT CLIENT branded
>>51935231
mumble doesn't have a shitty privacy policy
who even uses video chat
Just use vlc you pleb
>>51934058
confirmed best
>>51933876
>voip that doesn't bomb your internet
>tox
Ho-hum. https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1251
jabber/XMPP server
>>51934058
>>51934437
>>51936141
>quality video chat
>>51936476
At this point I might have to make sacrifices since apparently skype is the only significant chat client with decent video, depressingly enough.
There are these places outside called "Starbucks" they are very good for chatting
>>51936997
lol, it's almost as if I have buddies that aren't right down the street.
Yahoo re-launched their messenger. It's interesting. To me, it looks like what 2015-16 needs, or rather, what we should have gotten a long time ago.
MSN died, people were on skype. But why use so many different platforms? Skype for pc/or its alternatives, whatsapp for phones/or its alternatives.
Yahoo is the only one who offers the whole package.
Too bad it probably won't matter since no one will use it. I tried to get my friends to install it but they just didn't want to.
>>51933619
GSM
Just use teamspeak, autists.
>>51933619
Bleep is pretty fucking nice imo
>http://www.bleep.pm/
>>51937869
>quality video chat
>>51937894
I can appreciate that, but persistent chat history is important. I do know what to use to send my anime porn now however
>>51933619
>want to chat with normies but hate skype
they already have it anyways
>>51938155
you know funny enough my buds deleted their facebooks because they hate data mining, yet they use fucking skype of all things. ehhhhh
>>51938094
>persistent
The whisper option is an optional thing. You dont need to use it all the time. You can keep all your chat logs or just "whisper" some pron to someone
Signal
