Does anyone here use anything other than Discord for chatting? What exactly and how much?
“use” is the key word here, I’m interested in actual usage, not just the names of alternatives that I already know
Boosts are welcome. Thanks for answering
I only use IRC regularly – every other day or so to chat with a few small communities I’m part of. I enjoy hexchat even though it is EOL. There is a spiritual successor called ZoiteChat, but i haven’t felt the need to change.
The others i only use if necessary, not often.
My college has a mandatory server that you choose your roles for every semester to enter your course chat, where you get your homework and reminders of assignments.
I replaced Discord with Fluxer and use it for all my gaming groups. Several hours per session weekly.
I’d love to use Fluxer, sadly I haven’t had luck with getting any of my friends to switch over yet.
Same. People just love to sit in the boiling pot.
Since I’m the GM of said pen & paper groups I didn’t give them any other choice but to move to Fluxer. ^^
Fluxer, Matrix, IRC and Telegram… each is used by different groups, so I’m stuck with all of them.
I’m using Sable which is a Matrix client and so far it has been great. I haven’t used discord in over a year now.
I use Matrix with a group of friends that I persuaded to move from Discord. We still use Discord’s voice chat, but now that Matrix is starting to have something similar, I might try to get them to use Matrix for that too. So, the usage here is just general groupchat-like stuff.
I’m also in the process of moving the student council I’m in from Discord to Matrix. Once that’s up and running, it’ll cover groupchats, coordinating and announcing events, channels/rooms for various courses, and discussing/organising the various things the student council does.
I’ve never used Discord at all.
I use Telegram to chat with my wife, Facebook Messenger for a select group of friends, and text for everyone else.
I’m not spazzy enough to force others onto whichever platform I have deemed to be superior.
So I use whatever other people are using, which is normally discord or telegram. In the past I used Team Speak and Messenger for a while. I just rotate through profiles and practice other forms of digital hygiene
We use Fluxor with a bot that bridges our Discord (SFW) and Matrix (NSFW) servers. We’re hoping to migrate fully to Fluxor, but for now we are bridging the gaps.
IRC and Matrix here. Through a self hosted ZNC and a self hosted Matrix instance with bridges.
I use Matrix through a couple of different apps. It works very well for the few communities I’ve joined there.
People actually use discord?
Yes. I still use it because the last time we checked it was the only one with xbox integration for the xbox players in our small friend group.
Everything over a dozen people sucks in discord, but it is still great on a small scale for gaming communication.
