Is Discord a spyware/botnet?
>>54299896
Yes
>>54299896
Of course, everything is centralized on their servers.
/thread.
No. But it's a piece of proprietary bullshit.
They're forcing it down the gaymen community's collective throat. They need to fucking stop.
>the shitty & stale memes they use
>"LEEROY JENKINS"
>the wumpus
>"summoning unnecessarily dramatic encounters"
it's a cancer company, cancer software.
>>54299904
>>54299905
>>54299907
>>54299914
>>54299921
Thank you, based anons.
>>54299896
All is botnet.
Literally yes.
>>54299926
Would you say it's perfect solution for indie.hipster developers?
Yes, discord burned my house down and killed my dog.
>>54300000
Confirmed
>>54300000
Q U I N T S
>>54299896
Yes, no meme its an actual botnet
>>54299995
You mean it's MADE by indie/hipster faggots?
Yes, it is.
Listen to their ads, they use some faggot's voice and he puts on the dumbest sarcastic wording ever.
How does discord make money?
>>54300093
They're going to sell emoticons and shit.
Basically, they're broke.
This is sounding like discord is Line from America
Anyone wanna make a /g/ discord?
>>54300060
link?
idk, senpai.
discord is lightweight and more functional than skype, vent, TS3... multiplatform.
i wonder how they make money or why the give it away for free. maybe NSA shell?
By /g/'s standards, yes
But then again, by /g/'s standards even notepad is a botnet
Can someone explain how it's a botnet? I'm considering uninstalling it now.
>>54300172
you are a botnet
>>54300175
software I don't like is botnet
>>54300175
not open source
botnet
>>54300175
It is not FOSS therefore it's botnet and antigunz and also gay.
>>54300180
app*
>>54300129
This.. And their software is even buggier than line's
>>54300142
Undoubtedly better and more lightweight than those clients, of course.
The problem is, their company and client and target audience are so fucking cringy and cancerous that a lot of people (including me) really find it hard to use, for that sole purpose.
If you can get around the fact that the client is littered with old gaymer memes and shitty, stale references, then you're fine.
>>54300175
If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to lose by releasing it as free software.
>>54300142
>>54300219
by the way, here's what I mean by their voices sounding sarcastic and queer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSPIMgtcQnU
>>54300251
i see what you're saying...
that's par for the course though. trying to reach gamers (avg mental age of 12)
perfect marketing, really
>>54300251
another example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiuhkusxLJQ
Sadly.
Their funded by some of the worst companies in terms of anti consumer, anti civil rights attitudes.
But the service is damn good.
Do you guys think a better alternative could be made using the open, XMPP based Google Wave Federation Protocol?
>>54300793
i thought wave died
>>54299896
yes, says so right in their TOS
>>54301152
They proved every cuck wrong that called out their TOS. They said how "they need legal permission to use your photos in order to transmit it to the people in the channel" and whatnot. You're a dumbass.
>>54300994
It is an apache project now.
>>54300175
Because memes.
>>54299926
A ton of people on /g/ work there you know...
what about dat cord?
>>54301482
It's only proving his point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave_Federation_Protocol
Besides group voice channels the Wave protocol already achieves more than what discord and other modern group mobile IMs like whatsapp and snapchat does. Builing an open sourced group chat which can run on web browsers that you can privately host while maintaining the ability to communicate with other wave servers with wave.
>>54299896
I mean really think about it
I've used Discord since October with my guild and it's perfectly fine, Everything runs well despite the rocky start, how the fuck do they have the funds to maintain this? They even upgraded their servers several times. There's no ads at all
I know they have some iPhone/Android games but surely that's not enough money to handle this.
They have to be selling information or something. I have no idea.
>>54300000
I.. i actually believe you.
>>54299926
The memes is what made me uninstall it
>>54302523
Nice cat you have here. It would be really sad if something bad will happen to him.
>can't uninstall it because people I play with insist on using it
>>54302699
Still better than skype.
>>54302737
I've never known a single person who used skype for anything other than making video calls, if that
Is this just a meme or does it actually happen?
What is the superior alternative to skype/discord?
do people still use mumble?
>>54302769
mumble maybe?
>>54302777
That's what I expected. Is TeamSpeak also acceptable?
>>54302753
Plenty of people use it as voicechat instead of teamspeak of mumble or whatever. They butthurt after every stupid change that happened but still keep using it. I dunno what's wrong with them.
>>54302790
>proprietary
>acceptable
You know the answer.
>>54302822
Ah, hadn't even looked at it.
>>54300140
Tox already exists faggot.
>>54302777
i think teamspeak is ok but i want to switch to something different in the future. one that i can host...
>>54303075
It's shitty, though.
>>54302775
I do
>>54303136
well fix it
>>54303219
I tried to send them pull-request but they said it is not inclusive enough for their community.
>>54300140
>Make a /g/ discord.
We don't need another one
If you dont use Mumble and only Mumble then you need to fuck off from /g/
>>54303731
Daily reminder you are posting on proprietary imageboard.
Also, bananas.
not open source
for some reason they received 1.3 million dollars in funding
someone link the thread on the r4p3 forums
absolutely botnet
>>54303842
abridged
>>54300292
what causes people's speech to slur like that?
>>54299896
has anyone set up mattermost or any of the other self-hosted open source alternatives?
Why not just make your own using rocket chat?
>>54305016
It is not very popular, though.
By definition, its a spyware.
>>54305016
>>54305089
anyone here installed and messed around with rocket chat?
I'm debating installing one of these, but I wonder if they secretly have some nefarious subtle phone-home bullshit... they all look too silicon-valley-y for me to trust them
(I could read all the code but.. yeah)
I love how legitimate issues with Discord, when brought up to their support staff, boils down to "lol it's not our fault check ur hardware".
Sorry that my friend has a professional headset using XLR to USB and Discord is too shit to utilize it. Fix your damn app.
>>54305233
>XLR to USB
I Imagine it's using phantom power?
>>54305265
I have no idea but it works fine with Skype.
>>54305265
Provided the USB adapter isn't shit, that should deal with the phantom power, the software shouldn't need to.
I don't know of its a botnet but it's fucking cancer. I can't play an online game without some faggot spamming their discord channel in chat. Can't even browse /vg/ anymore since every general wants a discord channel now instead of actually using its general.
Look at their privacy policy and the answer is clearly yes.
>have 1mb down
>try discord
>it automatically loads everything ever posted
>close it after 15 seconds of having it open when i realize this
Its shit
>>54304690
Its meant to be funny. You would understand if you had seen any old Egoraptor animations, or Oney and his friends cartoons.
>>54302699
>installing the app when you can use it through a web browser with full functionality
>relatively small dev team made private chat for most 1337 followers
>using discord
Fuck.
>>54305444
>nonfree javascript
>>54300000
Quints of truth.
https://r4p3.net/threads/what-is-discord.861/#post-6224
https://youtu.be/iNIC7dtJZhE
Tl;dr/Tl;dw:
>Shit security
>Discord is running off venture capitalist investments
>Developers are shady as shit
Pic related, also it gathers data from you with it's bugsnag program which you are not made aware of nor have an option to turn off normally.
I've been on it for a few months now, only because basically everyone I know was hyping it to be the best thing ever and it makes voip "easy", even though it's never been difficult.
I would love to not use it or even have it, but sadly there are just far too many people I know on it. And I hate being "that guy" who tries to get everyone to switch to something else.
I've owned and operated a Ventrilo server for the last few years for a few friends and have found it way better than Discord, sure it doesn't have as many fancy features and a pretty gui, but it's a fucking voice client. Not sure why people need all this shit.
How does it even still operate? It's too good to be true. There has to be some sketchy shit going on behind the scenes there.
tl;dr it's shit and should be avoided like the plague
The Linux client is dildos. I have no idea why most of my buddies have started using this garbage.
>>54300093
You are the product.
>>54299896
Yes. Take a look at their privacy policy. Plus, this: >>54299907
They've claimed many times they won't sell your data, but... ;^)
That said, apart from >>54299926 (I really do wish they'd stop with the le GAYMUR memes), it's a shitload better than Skype, and it seems to be the only thing normies are willing to switch to. So, unless you can somehow convince your friends (>implying) to switch to Jitsi (lol) or Tox (LOL) or some shit, you might as well just embrace the next botnet.
>>54299896
doesn't matter. it has a 'pretty' ui. all the casuals will use it.
>>54307789
>Jitsi
Is it actually any good? Has any good software of this kind ever existed?
I use it. I don't give a fuck if it's botnet. It's fantastic software.
I can't get these niggers off skype, steam, battlenet, facebook or google. Ofc discord is adding to the problem. But it lets you make multiple rooms, it has voice chat. You can leave messages, post pictures/videos into the chat.
More people should be using it.
>>54307827
>Is it actually any good?
I haven't really been able to use it much, given that none of my friends were even willing to give it a minute of their attention. That said, apart from supporting a bunch of different communication protocols (so you can talk to a bunch of people on clients nobody uses anymore!), it doesn't really offer anything over Skype (in the views of normies, anyway), which means that nobody uses it, which means that nobody will switch to it, and so on and so forth...meanwhile, they're all slobbering at the mouth to switch to Discord™
>Has any good software of this kind ever existed?
Not really.
>>54302737
Hardly.
Discord raped my TeamSpeak community and now none of the major names use ts. Id use both but if I don't mute discord then the fucking tts starts going for every channel I turned it off but it still happens so I can't really use the voice without wanting to eat bleach tablets
Only thing about discord I really like is the gif and general image support it has over ts my fucking question is do they store the pictures themselves and of so how do they manage and pay for the literal terabytes of porn my community has uploaded to the NSFW channel
One of the main Discord devs is from /g/.
>lightweight
>all 3 processes total 200 fucking MB
Dropped.
>>54308825
do you have any proof whatsoever to back up this claim?
>>54309443
I'm getting about 107MB
Considering other chats that have graphics (so, not IRC) this is one of the most lightweight chat programs
LITERALLY just use mumble
>>54309761
That person is in the /g/ web development Discord group and says /g/ memes all the time and discusses Discord development.
>>54309969
Nah senpai, mumble fucks with your mouse input because it injects into the graphics API even when you have the overlay disabled.
>>54310035
Not on GNU/Linux it doesn't :^)
It's not skype (holy shit fuck skype) and my retard friends can use it because all you have to do is click one link to get in the room.
>security
Implying I'm using this shit for anything other than playing counterstrike
>>54310035
>Nah senpai, mumble fucks with your mouse input
https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2166
Caused by a regression or two. One of them has a fix.
>installing the program instead of just using the browser version
Why? You always have a browser window open anyways.
>>54310363
Browsers are generally more bloated than the client.
>>54310412
You're still always gonna have a tab open. Hell, you're on a browser right now.
>>54310448
There are only a couple of games I play with a browser open.
>>54307879
this desu senpai its better than mumble/ts3/everything
>>54310448
>on a browser right now
Or Clover, or a desktop app, or any other way to access 4chan than a bloatnet browser
>>54299896
Dunno, but still you shouldn't use it.
XMPP for chat, Mumble for voice.
>>54303731
>use mumble, IRC and email
welp I'd best fuck off from /g/
>>54310032
Yeah, you can come over to the /wdg/ group to talk to Jake. He works for Discord.
Give me an alternative then /g/ i don't want any other botnet besides wangblows
>>54313788
mumble
>>54308825
Well, maybe he should have made it more /g/ friendly then.
>>54303731
fuck off, mumble is a buggy pos.
>>54309853
even skype uses less.
>>54309443
That's remind me of my experience with java IDEs.
>idea claims to be lightweight
>loading whole minute at least
>500MB+ ram
>what the fuck, man
>trying eclipse
>it's even worse
So, yeah, "lightweight" is very relative term.
>>54315163
Nice try, shill.
>>54315182
>shill
shiggyty
nah i use TS3, just pointing out that even skype uses less, which is fucking sad.
>>54315206
It used same 100MB in my experience.
