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Started by Pandette , Oct 10 2016 03:29 PM


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Poll: Change Voice service (42 member(s) have cast votes)

Which do you prefer us to use as our main method of communication?

  1. Discord (18 votes [42.86%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 42.86%

  2. Teamspeak (22 votes [52.38%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 52.38%

  3. Facebook (2 votes [4.76%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 4.76%

Do you think that staff should be required which of the following to be staff:

  1. Discord (17 votes [40.48%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 40.48%

  2. Teamspeak (23 votes [54.76%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 54.76%

  3. Facebook (2 votes [4.76%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 4.76%

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#1

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Hey everyone,

 

We are considering about moving from teamspeak to Discord.

 

Discord

  • Free to Use
  • No Client Limit
  • Text chat / voice chat
  • API that is better for coding & we can prolly add new features
  • No Download Required [word in browser]
  • Pretty light weight
  • Music bots will be easier
  • May be able to add cooler features that ts can't provide.

Teamspeak

  • Familiar, since we already use it.
  • Permissions are set up but buggy
  • We may lose our license and be reduced to 32 clients.

 

We wanted to have a vote for people to tell the difference.  If this is the case, having discord will be the requirement over teamspeak and since it doesnt require a download it may save peoples computers


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For which one you need to be staff, I think it should be Facebook and Teamspeak. Like, to be staff, you need to have Facebook and/or Teamspeak, since I know a lot of people cannot get Teamspeak/Facebook. So, if someone can't get Teamspeak and want to become staff, they can get Facebook, and vise versa. This is just my personal opinion.


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I think there needs to be one unlike what Pinkie said, my reasoning is if your having a staff meeting and half are in discord and half in TS it would make everything super complicated. I think FB should not be the main also because 1 I know my parents would not let me go in FB just like TS. 2 the reason for TS is so that staff can communicate with their voices. That is my opinion.
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I personally don't enjoy Teamspeak, because I never talk and it makes my laptop run slower than it already does, or gets in the way of me using my tablet for anything else (forums, youtube, music,...) xD Facebook tho, it's always easy to be on


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In my opinion, I think Discord would be easier to use in terms of function and the fact that you don't have to download the client. That was the real negative I had with Teamspeak (i.e: some people can't download TS onto their computer because it makes it slow/it crashes). As for Facebook, not alot of people want to share their personal info? Like, I'm sure you could make a separate account for your character but some people aren't at the age of requirement to be able to have a Facebook (wow I sound like a mom). Maybe if Knockturn got a Discord, that could be an alternative to TS? You could still use TS, but just for people that don't/cant use TS they could have an alternative. (That's probably not an effective way, as you wouldn't have alot of staff on Discord because all of the staff already have TS). 

I'm probably incorrect about some points I've made, so, correct me if I'm wrong.


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I personally prefer TS over FB and Discord for 2 reasons #1 is that my parents would never let me use FB at my age and #2 is that its much easier to use TS without giving away personally information (ik you dont have to say anything personal on FB just my opinion) and also I already have TS and its easier to use just in general and talking with other people (I think <never use FB>)


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I myself use Skype and Discord to communicate, why? Both have text chats as well as voice channels / chats making it easy for everyone to use and they both hardly slow my computer. Whereas Teamspeak I've noticed drops my FPS by 5 - 10 for MC and 10 - 15 for league. Making the ace connection I have for EU West a lot harder to run through.


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I personally think discord would be a pretty bad idea (No offense to anyone, please don't sue me guys I'm sorry) because many people already have teamspeak, the permissions are set up, and a lot of people are already familiar with it. I also just favor teamspeak over discord as a personal preference, so... just ignore me Im biased xD And as Pinkie said, I like the idea of Facebook being involved, but I also think it may be difficult since SOME people don't have Facebook, BUT as Pinkie said, you could have Teamspeak <3


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I'm personally more for TS.
The server's had it for a long time, and we know how to use it. Also, some computers aren't very good, and can't easily open browsers.. (I say this on behalf of someone else- I have no issues with browsers myself.)

Possibly get Discord for awhile before removing TS- just to see how many more people we get on Discord compared to TS.. But that's just a suggestion.

As for Facebook, some people it's just annoying to get facebook (such as myself.) Some of us staff don't /really/ want to share personal information, and setting up another facebook for this, well.. it would be annoying to switch between both. Personally, the idea of making Facebook required for staff isn't the best idea.
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I want to become staff but, I don't enjoy TS (laptop crashes) but I don't know what discord is either... and I don't use FaceBook that much


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tbh it doesnt bother me waht you use i have all ways of comunication ts discord curse facebook skype you name it i got it lol


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I believe we should stick with Teamspeak. Perms are set up and all staff already have it unlike Facebook where a small amount of staff have it. Discord is bugged for many people (Including myself) to where the page will never load. People are also very familiar with Teamspeak and it's been like that for so long, why change it?


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I am for Teamspeak over Discord for a few reasons:

1. Discord has a web browser app.
Why is this bad? I don't know about all you guys, but something like this is more likely to lag me as a website than as a downloaded app.

2. Boy oh boy the downloaded client.
So big deal, I could just download the client and use it right? WRONG! Well, you can use it, but it's a pain to set up and the fact that it opens up automatically upon startup(for me :/). What's more, it will constantly go off even if you're not switched to the chat constantly going off, and silencing it requires you to mess with a lot of settings.

All in all, I prefer TS to Discord without a doubt.
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I personally think discord would be a pretty bad idea (No offense to anyone, please don't sue me guys I'm sorry) because many people already have teamspeak, the permissions are set up, and a lot of people are already familiar with it. I also just favor teamspeak over discord as a personal preference, so... just ignore me Im biased xD And as Pinkie said, I like the idea of Facebook being involved, but I also think it may be difficult since SOME people don't have Facebook, BUT as Pinkie said, you could have Teamspeak <3

Teamspeak perms are complex and hard to understand and we have lots of bugs in the perms.  Discord is very simple and easy to setup and easy to remake the channels.


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I am for Teamspeak over Discord for a few reasons:

1. Discord has a web browser app.
Why is this bad? I don't know about all you guys, but something like this is more likely to lag me as a website than as a downloaded app.

2. Boy oh boy the downloaded client.
So big deal, I could just download the client and use it right? WRONG! Well, you can use it, but it's a pain to set up and the fact that it opens up automatically upon startup(for me :/). What's more, it will constantly go off even if you're not switched to the chat constantly going off, and silencing it requires you to mess with a lot of settings.

All in all, I prefer TS to Discord without a doubt.

1. You can download the client, I have it.

2. I downloaded it and required almost no setup.  Skype also auto starts, and you can remove it from auto start.  I dunno what is going off for you bc my discord rarely makes noise.


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I believe we should stick with Teamspeak. Perms are set up and all staff already have it unlike Facebook where a small amount of staff have it. Discord is bugged for many people (Including myself) to where the page will never load. People are also very familiar with Teamspeak and it's been like that for so long, why change it?

Perms are buggy on ts & Discord may let us have the music bots back in addition to being able to add more access to in game stuff.


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Discord perm's can get bugged trust me my friend once didnt have a rank he just had Online and he could Edit server and delete it


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also Pande you can get perm Free Teamspeak server's did you know that


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also Pande you can get perm Free Teamspeak server's did you know that

if you dont have a donation store...... also we have that already they may take it away


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Discord perm's can get bugged trust me my friend once didnt have a rank he just had Online and he could Edit server and delete it

also discord's bugs have been fixed pretty well and i feel confident that we are intelligent enuff to set up the perms esp since ts is known as being extremely hard to set up perms for.


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