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I am the author of the Mumble library[1] used in OP's project. I've also contributed directly to the Mumble project a bit in the past.

It has been several years since I shut down my personal Mumble server. One of the reasons being that lots of my friends were using Discord and found opening Mumble an annoyance (being connected to multiple Mumble servers at once is not well supported, but being in multiple Discord "servers" is very common). The Mumble client also had a poor UX.

It would be great if Mumble had a web interface, support for multiple servers, and a better text chat interface, but I think it's too little too late to convince regular users to use Mumble.

[1]: https://github.com/layeh/gumble

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I run a mumble server and I'm a holdout. Close friends know I won't go on Discord.

I had a thought the other day that it's interesting now that Discord has a strong user-base, they've really gone backwards in terms of what made them palatable in the first place. If I recall correctly, it used to be that you could send someone a Discord URL and they would be able to instantly join a call from it, no account needed, no app needed, no need to "join a server", just straight into a call. I suspect at some point their strategy moved away from growing the number of users, to now extracting value from existing users.

That's still true afaik and really helped with adoption.

Hey, techietim thanks for the library. Sorry to hear you are not using mumble any more. The bridge has worked great for myself and my group over the last year. We definitely felt the presure to move to Discord before the bridge but now we just point people at our Discord server, which we call "Not Mumble" and everything works out great. If you every want to give MDB a try shoot me a message and would be more than happy to help. Although having read through the gumble library I'm sure you could fire it all up in no time. Thanks again.

I set up a mumble server at the beginning of the pandemic to talk to my friends. It quickly fell out of use for the same reasons you gave. Shame to see such high quality audio software give way to closed source alternatives

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