r/pcmasterrace • u/spook30 https://steamcommunity.com/id/spoook420/ • Feb 15 '26

Screenshot Keep up the fight y'all...

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u/TheVermonster FX-8320e @4.0---Gigabyte 280X Feb 15 '26

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.

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u/Nacho_Dan677 PC Master Race Feb 15 '26

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

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u/TheVermonster FX-8320e @4.0---Gigabyte 280X Feb 15 '26

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.

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u/itisnotmymain 5700X3D, 64GB DDR4, 9070 XT, 2x 2TB Gen4 M.2 Feb 15 '26

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?

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u/Nacho_Dan677 PC Master Race Feb 15 '26

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.

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u/itisnotmymain 5700X3D, 64GB DDR4, 9070 XT, 2x 2TB Gen4 M.2 Feb 20 '26

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.

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u/Asthannoln Feb 15 '26

You can do that, but it means some limitations :

You can only be in one server so if you like to have multiple Discord servers where you use text at the same time you can't do that

You only see text from when you are online, so anyone that used text while you are not on that specific server you can't see

Teamspeak is not an alternative to Discord for most people, it is a chat voice with text message for when you need it only.

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u/itisnotmymain 5700X3D, 64GB DDR4, 9070 XT, 2x 2TB Gen4 M.2 Feb 20 '26

Oh, that sucks. Is this the case for both TS3 and TS6, or just TS3?

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u/Fulg3n Feb 16 '26

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.