About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.
Matrix Manifesto We believe:
People should have full control over their own communication. People should not be locked into centralised communication silos, but instead be free to pick who they choose to host their communication without limiting who they can reach. The ability to converse securely and privately is a basic human right. Communication should be available to everyone as a free and open, unencumbered, standard and global network.
always hated teamspeak and i cant believe its still around
I always preferred Teamspeak over Vent.
I ran a TS3 server for years that we used and it was fine. Didn’t have the chat features we now have with discord but as a voip it was great.
Me too. It’s still running but been empty for a long time now. Originally set it up in 2009 (Back then it was TS2). I was immensely disappointed in TS5. I thought it will be something more akin to selfhosted discord, but when they announced that the TS3 server will be compatible with the TS5 Client I already lost hope. Its just a reskin of the client with some weird online service integration. Haven’t looked at it in a while but last I checked it wasn’t even feature complete and you were not able to edit permissions with then new client. Mind boggling that its been in development for >5 Years now.
that’s pretty disappointing to hear. You’d think that they’d update the client to give it discord-like features since that’s clearly what people want.
For voice TS3 stomps the hell out of Discord. There are a ton of plugins that do things discord could only dream of as well as better hardware support for peripherals for simulation gaming. The chat function of TS3 is garbage though and if you are using it for file sharing you should be taken out back and shot…
You also have full control over the TS server if you host it or pay a host company. With discord you are at the whim of a madman and if it goes down you are done because they go down by regions and not individual servers. Where as Teamspeak you can set up a lot of alternate servers from free hosted servers as a rally point.
I’m not denying the features it offers for voice, my issue might be that it has too many features. It’s an ugly interface (or was when i used it) and has way too much going on for just a voice chat (imo). Also as another said its not open source :/
But also I need a service to have a chat focus with voice and video, which is why I like Matrix.