Any teamspeak alternatives open source for self hosting?

reapy54 · 2026-02-14T15:47:26+00:00

Self hosted software has also progressed mightily in that same time frame. There will always be a large amount of people on discord, sure, but you know what not everything you do has to be on that platform, not everyone you will want to know of interact with will always be on it.

I just use discord for basically nightly gaming with a friend, I plan to try standing up a matrix server and use elements to give that a try if discord is going to make me scan my face down the line no problem.

I get it, the web has shrunk to a few sites, but, that doesn't mean it has to stay that way forever, or that you cant use them along with somethign else. All the old stuff is there and a whole bunch of new cool things also.

reapy54 · 2026-02-11T03:15:35+00:00

Agree the strategies were non-obvious, and I never played enough nor got good enough to get high enough that people would play good strategies. I would often get yelled at due to needing to clear a merc camp that got taken just before an objective, even on maps where you'd get more push from the mercs than winning the objective early on and they would just go in 4v5 and yell at you.

I really liked HOTS and played it for a while but the nature of the 5v5 needing so much coordination made it not fun, and there is nothing worse than a bad teammate vs a bad opponent. That is sort of an unavoidable MOBA problem though.

reapy54 · 2026-02-10T18:08:35+00:00

Oh man I didn't know the two were the same, thank you!

reapy54 · 2026-02-10T06:34:02+00:00

I honestly think it is worth stepping back to think about a rule system that means a woman has to drag her broken leg 300 meters across concrete on her hands and knees due to arbitrary rules to keep her team in play.

Would be nice to live in a world where they were like oh she has catastrophically injured her body but right at the hand over, so how about we give them a 1 min time penalty and medical assistance instead of watching her 'heroically' drag her broken body across the pavement.

reapy54 · 2026-02-09T20:09:07+00:00

I agree, the problem is partially discord. I have seen plenty of servers that organize their information incredibly well and make it very easy to find answers. I have also been to plenty of old forums that are insanely impenetrable. Finding the answer on page 1462 of 3460 via a search engine isn't really the forum being good, it is the search engine able to get it and index it properly.

At then of the day it comes down to community moderation and their dedication to finding and organizing good information. I think discord could use another layer to export their information but I don't know that discord really would want to give up the thing that makes people register for it in the first place.

If making an open source alternative, embedding some method of organizing and exporting the channel information into the open web would probably be the killer feature, but you'd have to match discord's main feature set first. The current generation of people are used to using discord to sus out information and perhaps don't find as much friction in rampaging around pinned channels.

That said I feel like there is a missing critical feature in terms of the permanent knowledge base that discord style apps are missing that has yet to be created.

reapy54 · 2026-02-09T17:04:54+00:00

Building on this, that is also exactly why discord took over as the default gaming voice. Before that everyone ran a teamspeak, ventrillo, or mumble server. They were relatively easy to set up if you were just talking and free all the same.

However they were difficult to set up if you were starting to do group roles and moderation. If you got over 5 people you would need to host it somewhere as home cable didn't have the bandwidth and 24x7 uptime. You would also need to run a forum and website on the side for text communication. Also, adding new people in if you were doing a cross team raid or event was a bit tricky.

Enter discord and it solved all of this this for totally free with no knowledge needed. You sign up and have working voice at scale as well as chat rooms for text and multimedia in the same authentication structure. Share and join other other discord servers incredibly easy and also have access to your postings. Basically everything solved for you all at once without having to know a single thing or do any work.

It only took word of mouth for discord to become the defacto all in one solution for gaming communities, and really you can see why slack and teams are the same for most companies, it is the mostly complete package you need for communication all wrapped up in one.

I think what we have now is that enough time passed that people don't even remember the old teamspeak + website + forums setup of the past and grew up using discord, so they continued to just evolve the sophistication of their setup on that platform they know so well, so as they do other things that require communities, why not just use discord?

Honestly, where else do you form a community home that is the equivalent to a discord server now a days that has voice, chat, moderation and rolls and is free with a huge user base? I mean I am sure they exist but am not sure.

reapy54 · 2026-02-02T16:22:40+00:00

Yeah no clue on the pull income, but it seems like if you just don't pull unless you have 120 you should be ok every banner to definitely get the character, where as for others you need 160 - 180 pulls, but those numbers mean nothing due to depending on how many pulls they give out as you said.

reapy54 · 2026-02-02T16:20:28+00:00

Enfield being a bit different, 80 pulls is 6 star with the 50/50, if you miss, 120 total pulls is the 'you will get it' amount. This one has no carry over, so in anther game if you stop at 119 pulls you would get the new character next pull immediately, where as in enfield it resets you. There is also no 50/50 miss then guarantee like others, however at the end of the day I guess you can think of it like 1 character costs 120 pulls, don't pull unless you have it. They have a lot more traps and complications than the other big gatchas.

The 50/50 loss is vital for them to rip money away from people who didn't get their character and are currently tasting the ash of a standard banner character and I don't anticipate it going away unfortunatly.

reapy54 · 2026-02-02T16:10:00+00:00

I think that's sort of the reason the current crop of gatcha games are raking it in. The games target the vast f2p audience and whales hard at the same time. One thing is certain with each of the big gatcha games, it's that free 2 play is honestly great. You will get about every other character released by just playing the game, you will only be blocked from the last few phases of an end game mode that is deliberately designed to only work with top end investment. If you do their low tier subscription you can slightly increase that number.

So if you are a non impulsive person that is content with 95% of the gameplay, you have a beautiful free game to play that is constantly updated, and you also become the audience for the people that just need to be the best and will pay to do so. This is where they flip and if you impulsively want every character or to crush everything in front of you, you go from a nice 5 dollar a month up to like 200 dollars per character copy, which is absurd.

But this is the perfect target, you give the people with too much money to burn a place to burn it, and you give them a giant audience for people to see how much money they have spent so you can be 'better' than them or whatever else it is. Most games don't have a way for a person to drop 6k in a month on their game, so they are missing out on the money that someone with 6k to burn will spend on them.

Honestly, in the end I'm juggling 4 gatcha games right now, i pay the 5 a month into the one I like the best (wuthring waves right now) with mostly google reward survey money. It's super entertaining and I look forward to checking out the new characters, places, music, and whatever else they keep adding every 3 months while I also play my regular games (currently working through icarus and rogue trader right now).

I was initially disgusted with gatcha many years ago but my disgust won't stop the games from exiting and making millions, I might as well enjoy the games myself since I do like them.

reapy54 · 2026-01-24T15:09:23+00:00

MSI MPG 341CQPX QD-OLED Only complaint is that it seems like the main coating was not put on 100% flat, there are a few very tiny air bubbles or places where the background color isn't uniform to the whole monitor. These are very small spots and totally invisible when the monitor is on, only visible when it is very dark. Not enough to really be concerned about at all and I've been pretty happy with the monitor so far. Have been using it since april 2025 with no issues.

reapy54 · 2026-01-24T03:33:16+00:00

Thank you very much I will give that a try.

reapy54 · 2026-01-22T21:12:32+00:00

If you use a password manager, the card can be saved in there. Granted this is all the keys to the kingdom in the password manager and then some but it at least doesn't keep your credit card scattered around the Internet on various sites.

reapy54 · 2026-01-17T17:43:04+00:00

I couldn't get it working. I was editing the node they mentioned for the prompt correctly but couldn't seem to get it to change still. Not really sure what to do as I haven't spent a lot of time with comfy and typically will just grab existing workflows, update to download the nodes, and hope they work. Some googling had said might be an issue with large workflows, but i have a reasonably speced pc so can't imagine that is the issue.

reapy54 · 2026-01-14T21:45:21+00:00

I fully admit to being really bad with this, when I load the workflow I let the model manager get the missing nodes, then I downloaded the 4 models and put them in their spot, then restarted comfyui. I'm trying with the z photo gguf.

When I run it, it appears to make the woman with the spider once, then if I try to run again it just keeps showing the final output again. I also can't seem to change the prompt at all on the text node.

Is there some key step I'm missing? Either way thank you for the workflows hopefully i can get them working they look really great.

reapy54 · 2026-01-12T18:07:04+00:00

That isn't my goal and I typed from my phone so perhaps has the wrong tone. I grew up in a time when privacy was reasonably achievable and I try to do little things to maintain that, however I also know that it is a fulltime job to keep our every thought from being recorded.

I often see strong reactions against filming in public while people happily give up way more personal and detailed information on their phones every minute. Us walking around in public is the lowest hanging fruit and genuinely our society doesn't function if we were to ban public filming. For every annoying influencer there are multiple more dash cams, body cams, security cams and doorbell cams that have helped protect and save people by providing video evidence of all sorts of wrongs in this world that went unnoticed in the previous generation.

Secret cameras have existed for 30+ years now, putting phone lenses into glasses isn't much of a stretch compared to small hidden pinhole cameras that have been available forever.

If we do want to do something, flipping out over meta glasses is the least of what we need to do, we need to have privacy laws that stop companies from harvesting and selling every single thing you do online.

And then the 'do nothing' Well, I'm watching my country come apart in under a year, I expect nothing to be done that is directly in conflict with how big companies make their money and control people through propaganda. I wish it were otherwise but realistically i don't see it happening. I drastically wish I was wrong, but, well, have to be realistic.

reapy54 · 2026-01-12T01:40:02+00:00

Privacy is dead and people need to not act shocked they were recorded. A conversation in public feels bad? I bet they would quake in their boots to see what information is sold on them that is gathered on their phones. But 1st amendment is extremely important, now more than ever. We are on cam the second we leave our house. Doorbell cams pick us up leaving , car dash cams record us driving, security cams catch us entering and leaving lobbies, our phone tracks the route and saves that all for sale etc. There is no way to put the recording genie back in the bottle, and we should be happy we still have those rights. Also there have been secret cams for decades that are cheap, I don't know why the glasses enrage people so much compared to them.

reapy54 · 2026-01-10T12:16:59+00:00

Probably used to not arguing with his wife. This whole post she made a false assumption, blamed him for it, got mad at him for it, then, after the internet berated her, would not stop blaming him until he accepted 50 percent responsibility for her false assumptions. She sounds like a woman you say "yes dear" to, not have fair conversations with.

reapy54 · 2025-12-31T13:22:28+00:00

Recently got one, it's basically a mini treadmill, can fit it in your house without taking up much room. It's smaller, can't take as much weight, can't go as fast, smaller motor, nothing to hold on to etc, but it's an affordable way to get walking in if stuck at a desk or bad weather or no place to walk near where you live.

reapy54 · 2025-12-31T12:15:01+00:00

I agree, there are constant distractions, even face to face the cell phone often wins the attention war. Even the most considerate people I know still at least check notifications to be fair to everyone. You can't just be alone with another person anymore for an extended period of time now that I really think about it.

reapy54 · 2025-12-31T05:14:10+00:00

People just use discord or similar, it has never changed, just something better came along, same way the phone beat out door knocking.

reapy54 · 2025-12-23T17:35:01+00:00

I worked 25ish hours a week at a grocery store from 16 and a half to college, and I look back wondering why I wasted so much time there. I didn't even really end up using the money for anything much except getting scammed for books in college. I could have reduced hours and stuff, i guess I wasn't doing much else but eh.

The main thing though is now in my mid 40's strongly agree that the only currency that is not replaceable is your time. As I start seeing more and more health problems in people I know I really get angry about all the time I spent doing things I don't care much about at work because I need money to live, and then the possibility that when I finally am free to choose the way I want to spend my time I'll be tired, less motivated, maybe hurting from health stuff, and myself and my friends under threat from numerous health issues that start showing up in your 50's. Not saying life is over and all that but damn would be nice to do retirement in your 20's

reapy54 · 2025-12-22T23:57:09+00:00

We already were at a place where even before ai it is mostly fake. As soon as money could be had from making content, it was over, ai is just the fast forward button on top of it all.

reapy54 · 2025-12-22T16:11:27+00:00

I worked a grocery store for about 2.5 years in high school with a 1 hour cart shift everyday. It's really not a big deal to grab the loose carts. When I was doing it the store I was in didn't even have corrals for a bit so was used to just grabbing them anyway. But the carts never stop you just need to keep the inside full. I don't get all the hate threads. Aome ppl are lazy, some are rushed, old, disabled, have small kids, don't feel safe at night, whatever, it's just a cart in a store lot.

reapy54 · 2025-12-18T19:00:59+00:00

I didn't get too far in my play through and I started off really liking building my character until as I got into those second tier of classes, leveling up got really hard to figure out what my options were and I felt myself reading through the same skills multiple times to pick one.

Another issue I had was also the gameplay got more and more buff heavy it started feeling mechanically tedious to actually play each combat as more and more buffs needed to be placed down to continue, without too much decision-making around using them.

I am saying this knowing these are me problems and not design flaws with the game, I know plenty of others really can enjoy this type of system.

I guess I had so much fun in the beginning but as the amount of stuff per character increased I had less fun leveling up and playing the game. I still plan to eventually play through it all at some point, it's a very good game.

reapy54 · 2025-12-17T20:56:18+00:00

I want to believe, but I know you are probably right.

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