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Comment by BelenusMordred | Hacker News Reader

Discord audio is terrible and unreliable, I don't know how people use it for anything other than casual chatting.

Maybe people are just impressed solely by UI but they are apples and oranges wrt quality.

We all take turns streaming the driver POV in sim racing for multiple hours in driver swapped endurance. I think there's a whole category of esports coming only made possible by discord. Works flawlessly.

People use it precisely because the audio is great and just works.

I use Discord to stay in touch with a group of friends who use potatoes as PCs and the worst version of cable internet (cox). The voice quality is always flawless, even though in games we often run into game connectivity issues, the voice comes through loud and clear.

I regularly take part in programming groups, paper reading groups, and book reading groups with Discord. It works flawlessly without any problem. Screen-sharing, video chat, voice all work properly as expected.

I also admin several servers, some of which are completely unrelated to tech and non-tech people find it seamless to use.

And their noise suppression just works. I have only seen better video quality in Google Duo, and better voice quality in 4G VoLTE calls.

Only three issues I have with Discord-

1. It requires high speed internet connection. How high? People with 3 MBPS reported seamless use.

2. The clients are resource hogs. The mobile clients drop the battery too quick, and takes too much RAM in PCs. Although the latter has improved with updates.

3. I am concerned about privacy. Discord is as close-sourced as it gets.

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