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Discord will require an ID or Face Scan to fully use it starting next Month

vindafarna said:
Time to return to Ventrilo or Teamspeak?

I am glad for traditional forums like GAF.
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Got this pop up today, lmao.

People are asking for more modern UI for TeamSpeak.

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Sharkord - Open Source Self-Hosted Chat Platform

Privacy-first, self-hosted real-time chat platform. Own your data, control your conversations.
sharkord.com sharkord.com
github.com

GitHub - Sharkord/sharkord: Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.

Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data. - Sharkord/shar...
github.com github.com

Seems promising, it's in Alpha though.
 
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Ribi said:
Game chat in 2026? Just tell me you don't play video games fuck nevermind gnna give my phone number to Russian bot teammates in CS next time and tell them to make callouts in group call
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Xbox Live Party Chart with friends numb nuts. Hilarious, you are paranoid about "russian bots" but will defend a company that will face scan or require ID LMAO.
Also, I never implied giving my number out to game, just that I use it to communicate with my IRL friends. Your dumb ass take assumes I have no friends because I don't use Discord to game.
 
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BeardSpike said:


Got this pop up today, lmao.

People are asking for more modern UI for TeamSpeak.

Edit:

Sharkord - Open Source Self-Hosted Chat Platform

Privacy-first, self-hosted real-time chat platform. Own your data, control your conversations.
sharkord.com sharkord.com
github.com

GitHub - Sharkord/sharkord: Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.

Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data. - Sharkord/shar...
github.com github.com

Seems promising, it's in Alpha though.
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Is TeamSpeak still based on IP?
 
pudel said:
The reason I was always mad about discord was that they transferred former open discussions behind an app. I mean even reddit you can read free, but everything discord related is locked behind an app. Felt always like a step back rather than a step forward. And if I just want to talk with other gamers there are thousand of other possibilities. 🤷‍♂️
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It costs money to use discord? It's always been free for me. Or do you mean you want to use other apps

I can match make in seconds for any game I can think of, what else does that? Reddit is shit for that

With discord it will auto notify me when a spot opens for most games
 
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Apparently it's already happening? Someone in the server I'm in shared this. Though dunno where this person is located so

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I genuinely don't understand why "Face ID" is a thing.

The face is something visible to everyone all the time, easy to steal with a sneakily performed scan.
So, why not make a "show your tits/pee-pee/whatever-else-normally-hidden ID"?
 
The Sum of Zero said:
Apparently it's already happening? Someone in the server I'm in shared this. Though dunno where this person is located so

9J39YBS.jpeg
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I've got a 'Message hidden' for several of today's posts from the same person from our (invite only) server. And the verification is not even possible yet, so essentially if that happens it works like you'd have that person on ignore list.

Edit: Scratch my post, some fucker from our server was joking around with a bot to hide messages. ;p
 
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I collect VHS tapes said:
It costs money to use discord? It's always been free for me. Or do you mean you want to use other apps
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I want to NO app for just reading stuff. You know...like this forum here. I can lurk forever or I can log in and participate...why the need for hiding everything behind an app? It just makes it more difficult to get informations.

I collect VHS tapes said:
I can match make in seconds for any game I can think of, what else does that? Reddit is shit for that

With discord it will auto notify me when a spot opens for most games
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Okay, thats understandable from yr pov. I never used discord and never will as it looks like....so for me nothing is really lost.

But I guess you will have to hand them over yr ID or face scan...if you want to "match make" for games which are 18+. Or you look for different solutions to satisfy this use case. Its up to you.
 
Autistic_Pancake said:
I genuinely don't understand why "Face ID" is a thing.

The face is something visible to everyone all the time, easy to steal with a sneakily performed scan.
So, why not make a "show your tits/pee-pee/whatever-else-normally-hidden ID"?
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Facial biometrics are a pretty reliable secondary authentication factor. Especially when the auth method incorporates life detection. Human genitalia can be used for some forms of authentication however they are a poor for guessing a users she.
 
The Discord hate is kind of wild. I don't particularly care for the big message-board-esque Discords myself. Though I am on a few large ones for LFGs for certain games, and those work just swell. And for having private-ish servers with various groups of friends, easy, reliable, high-quality voice chat... it just can't be beat. I saw someone in the other thread talking about Xbox Live Party Chat. My God now that's a useless piece of shit. It's bad on console but boy oh boy is it completely useless if you want to use it on PC. Microsoft should be completely ashamed of the state they left that piece of garbage in.

Complaints about resources? Please, Discord uses like 500mb of RAM and practically no CPU. Has negligible performance impact even on a potato.

Are we mid-enshitification on Discord? Yeah probably. But it's been pretty solid for like 10 years now.
 
I was looking around the web for potential alternatives. I've found
https://gamevox.com/ and https://sharkord.com/ (Self Host)

Sharkord looks better obviously. I want to ask it here for the ones that are knowledgeable on this matter. Would buying a small VPS service and hosting sharkord there be viable to be used with my friends?
 
hopefully people ditch it and forums like this become popular again. i tried discord but hated it. i prefer traditional places like this for discussion.
 
pudel said:
Does teamspeak cost money? And hosting yrself isnt really a bad thing imho. Especially when I see now what is happening, I would even say...its the way to go. 🤷‍♂️
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Everything costs money to self-host even if its just power. Self-hosting takes more effort than clicking "create server" and sharing a link like discord. I self host nearly everything I use online but I can't get friends off discord.
 
Discord has become a blackhole when it comes to gaming discussion and somewhat in-depth written gaming content. If this move could make people move to forums again, that would be nice. I'd rather read about a game or some guide or written retrospective or design discussions online on a board than join a fucking Discord server.
 
Well I'm almost done, left all servers I was on, notified all people that was/is using my server that I'm closing it before the end of Feb and deleting my account.
Also that the only way we're "connecting" again with each other is on a privately hosted server of some kind.
 
DeepEnigma said:
Been saying this.

These moves aren't "organic" or "about the children."
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Of course this is not organic and it's not to protect the children. It's to control and monetize the user base.
And the worst part is that Discord doesn't even care about protecting people's data.
At this point, Discord is just malware.
 
winjer said:
Of course this is not organic and it's not to protect the children. It's to control and monetize the user base.
And the worst part is that Discord doesn't even care about protecting people's data.
At this point, Discord is just malware.
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They'll also pass along your info to certain Orwellian governments at will.
 
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