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Comment by MagnumOpus | Hacker News Reader

Certainly possible to be better than Discord. I tried Discord once for a friend’s virtual party. Horrible sound quality, horrible connection issues both on Windows client and iOS app - not to speak of fully pegging the CPUs for a video chat app. The experience was far worse than a Zoom or Teams call.

Maybe for 24/7 gamers who have tweaked it until they found the right setup, Discord “just works”, but for me it seemed unfit for purpose.

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If you had horrible sound quality and horrible connection issues with discord you are in the absolute minority.

A friend and I both got really nice microphones but when in a discord call you can not tell the difference between them and an above average wireless headset microphone (these are usually much worse than their wired equivalent).

Recording the audio in windows you can easily tell the difference between them, but not over discord. Even tried upping the bitrate but it made no noticeable difference.

No, I have been hanging around in Discord for a while now and I've run quite often into issues with connection issues for specific servers (I guess some clusters going down) and them being OOO for a while.

Mumble on the other hand tends to be pretty reliable and comes back up in a few seconds anyway whenever it fails.

I've had the exact opposite experience with Discord, personally. Flawless streaming of 1080p60 games, screens, voice & video chat. Text chat/channels are intuitive. Embeds just work.

Teams on the other hand has a terrible UI for text chat, but the voice/video meetings are fine.

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