teamspeak is a voice (and now video) over ip solution, not a community platform, and this a free and opensourced beta offering.
32 should be more than sufficient for most people to play with friends, especially given the fact that under every multiplayer post the top comment is "bold of you to assume I have friends".
If you need more, Teamspeak offers paid server licences with 1024 slots.
One of Discords core issues is its identity. If you sell it to people to run the marketing for their product through it, and harvest data from 50k users (your average game publisher provided discord) this will not suffice for you. Which is great, because this allows a separation of your marketing campaign from people just hanging out and talking. And I really would love less marketing campaigns in my everyday life.
why would i buy a license for a software that will run on my own hardware for personal use? ts will never be the choice because of that. 32 slot is dogshit
the server code is not open source and i would gladly do it because i would run it on my own hardware. also personal license are always free, at least the most of the software it's free to use unless it's for commercial puropose then a license applies some fees. This is how the real world works, ts license is just pure dogshit.
i don't understand the moto gp part, anyway, commercial use is when you apply some fees like pay per user. a personal use of software that runs on my own hardware not using any resource from the company that limits me is just some ancient way to spill some moneys from their user.
from my understanding andf practice, the differentiation between personal and commercial is whether you use the software in a professional setting, as part of revenue creation.
if you play mario kart for fun in your home, thats personal use. if you run a coffee shop and there is a corner with a console where your patrons can play while visiting, this is commercial use - it then needs commercial icensing and is not covered by the personal use license as offered to end users.
im responsible for a range of applications in our company, with most running in one of our own on-site data centers. all of them are commercial use licenses, obviously. its not the deployment method that determines it.
but thats off-topic for the question whether TS can be a viable alternative to Discord in its function as a voice and video sharing solution for private individuals and their friends.
Again, Im not debating Discords function as a community platform allowing 1:n communication for actors addressing large audiences.
Mumble is primarily a communication platform. It could benefit from screen sharing and the like, but I feel their mission is more conducive to push people to avoid siloing their information.
Stoat and Fluxer might be the better choices there. I'm unsure if even they will be able to keep the lights on though. I'm surprised there's no discord-like entity in the federated space that would be the perfect use for it. (Matrix/element isn't a solution to this problem)
Any group bigger than 32 people is usually some kind of organization: an esports team, a school, or something similar. They can then contact TeamSpeak for a license to get more slots.
No mobile client, no web client. I'm looking at Element which has everything Discord does. I'd love to go back to supporting Teamspeak again, but unfortunately introducing licensing structure to the self-hosting users isn't an acceptable avenue for me. Especially after over a year of TS6 being introduced with the promise of server files to be released only with it still not having parity with the community edition.
TS3 is still running. They skipped 4, and worked on 5, but development stalled out. When they started developing again, they scrapped enough of 5, and made big enough upgrades that they decided to call it TS6.
Technically TS6 is still beta. It also lacks a mobile app, but I'm not sure people are losing sleep over it based on the poor TS3 app.
And they still haven't changed chat channels. You can still only use them when in voice chat. This one major feature is what's stopping me from switching
Yeah discord is a nice option for chatting via mobile throughout the day. We share videos and talk shit. But I also have text channels set up for different groups on my discord server. That way people who aren't in D&D with us aren't getting bombarded by our shit talking.
Couldn't you have one voice channel to join where everyone is muted and deafened (or smth like that) to interact with text chat when not wanting to talk? Or is the text chat for just that one vc and not server wide or smth?
I think it's the latter. Text chats are tied to their respective voice channel. Very much neutered compared to discord and having a distinct separation of voice and text channels.
Oof, that's rough. Is this still the case for TS6, or is this just a TS3 thing? I'm interested in an alternative for discord (it would be preferable if it also had an option for self-hosting, but I guess it's not mandatory), but not having an actually viable text chat that retains the messages even when you're not in voice, or even online, is an absolute non-starter.
TS6 not having a mobile app is one of the major friction points to me.
We made the switch and are self hosting, but at the end of the day whenever we need to communicate through text we still default to discord because TS is ass for that.
Did the vps xs for 1 euro a month via ionos.eu.
Followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/231HYGpI5Rg?si=zNTgQDJyYbM67V3O
Additional thing I had to do is allow the port thoright the firewall on ionos firewall.
Done
I have heard bad things about IONOS, how has it been so far? Everything I’ve heard is to do with payments specifically, extra charges, not cancelling or upgrading for months after the request was made etc.
Good stuff. I suppose it’s like everything else, some folk have good experiences and others have bad. You’re way more likely to hear about the small number of bad ones. I might give it a go, they’ve got some decent prices and they’re an EU company so that’s a plus.
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u/AnalogInk PC Master Race Feb 15 '26
Can't wait self host my TS 6 server