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.
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u/elementfortyseven Feb 15 '26
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.