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Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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I've always hated Discord since the very beginning. At least now I have yet another really good reason.
Never used it, never will. Ventrilo for lyfe.
For me it's Mumble. Open sourced and completely free with encryption, and temporary chat logs.
Ventrilo looks someone's bad first open source project, but it's proprietary. The audio quality must be orgasmic for people to use it.
it's what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak
It was XFire -> TS -> Vent -> Skype -> Discord for me.
RIP XFire
So like XMPP, SIP, Mumble, or Matrix without the chat part.
What happened to IRC? It worked great.
Nothing. Like, absolutely nothing. It didn't keep up with the times. I spent am untold amount of time on IRC, but the fact that you have to be online to have a chance to read messages just doesn't jive with most people's schedules anymore.
Spam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn't really handle being mobile or disconnected without some sort of proxy. Among other things.
It's still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.
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WIth current hardware and cheap hosting, setting Opus Voice to max quality is best.