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Hammers suck. Easily stolen if left unprotected. Basically haven't changed since invetion. Sometimes they break. Most people actually want a screwdriver.

Mumble is a tool with its own strengths and weaknesses. It's not a social communication platform, so of course it sucks to run a community on it!

What it is is an excellent voice server. I've used it for intercom at a large live event and it was perfect. I've seen it used at a large LAN gaming event to successfully cut bandwidth usage almost in half. It also has broad support for positional audio in games - something that Discord notably completely lacks.

It's free, it's open, it's not bound to provider-operated servers, it has stellar latency and is very extendable. Please, find me another option.

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All good, but it has no users while everyone has Discord and since Discord works from a website you don’t even need to install a client.

Simple convenience is the killer feature. Niches will use niche software

That's just the point - it doesn't need to have everyone on it because it's not a social platform, it's a voice server. I'd never use Mumble to message someone out of nowhere, share memes or have a meeting. All my gaming groups are on Discord, which is where we hang out and plan events. But when we actually go play, we often switch to Mumble or TeamSpeak (depending on the game).

Convenience isn't a killer feature for us - it's the actual features. Positional audio simply isn't available on Discord and depending on what you're playing, might only be available via Mumble and nothing else.

It's a tool like and other with its own use-cases. It will never be the one and only communication platform and that's a good thing!

TeamSpeak has cemented Mumbles paradigm in the minds of many, many mainstream people years before Discord existed. Mumble works pretty much the same in terms of convenience and simplicity. It's not that niche. Try it before you knock it.

>Try it before you knock it.

This is the kind of stupid elitism people have here. As if I haven't hosted Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, and Mumble servers for years. Maybe these days there isn't competition (although you mentioned TeamSpeak), but even back in the day it was a tiny miracle if two different groups actually shared a platform even inside the same game different groups/clans/guilds usually had different setups and I had to juggle multiple clients just to participate compared to now when everyone is simply on Discord.

Unless you need some niche feature (like the OP's positional audio) there simply is no reason to go for out dated client/server model.

>but it has no users while everyone has Discord

Why do you know that?

Tell me you don't play video games without telling me you don't play video games.

Everyone is on Discord.

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