ZeroCoolIs This How Reddit Ends?
onlinepersonaš the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They wonāt quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an āexodusā last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
I was a Reddit refugee.
A year or so into Lemmy and I donāt want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view āAllā every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
Iāve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.
If Reddit didnāt hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, Iād rarely have to visit the website.
Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.
Now just donāt get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat š¢
What do you mean by soundboard?
borariThey probably mean that stupid soundboard where you can play cricket noises and stuff in your voice chat.
@batcheck@[email protected], you can use voicemeeter banana for completely free, or the trial version of voicemeeter potato for forever with a pretty simple bypass, to patch your hardware mic input and a software audio output to a virtual mic device, then set that virtual device as your mic input in discord, matrix, any game, whatever you want. You can play soundboard audio from your browser or from any program on your pc.
I personally have the entire chain as: xlr mic in -> nvidia broadcast (to remove server noise) -> voicemeeter potato hardware input -> voicemeeter potato virtual B1
I split my comms audio and game audio to different virtual devices, then set my OS audio to the āmainā virtual device. All three play out of my headphones. I set my OS audio to play out of B1 also.
I have the B1 device set as the microphone device in discord, every game that has in game vc, matrix, slack, etc. Anything I play in the OS, Spotify, YouTube, Plexamp, a soundboard, whatever, both plays in my headphones for me and plays in my voice chat channel with perfect quality. And I can still talk over it.
Yeah. I could simulate my own. But for the average pleb who already wary of trying unpopular applications, telling them they are ālosingā features is usually a no go.
Discord has become this place where I hang with multiple different groups of people from work, personal life and random online acquaintances. We game, talk politics, plan family/kid events and often itās the fastest way to get a hold of someone. The soundboard as silly as it is one of the many meming features and my friends are usually into meming on each other.
Itās to the point where when I propose to even my other Tech buddies that we spin up matrix or revolt server, one of them just offers to boost whatever server weāre on. People would rather pay than lose what they are used to using on Discord
Thatās a shame. Also to be clear it wouldnāt be you āsimulating your ownā, thatās literally what a soundboard is, a board that plays sounds. Like theyāve been using them in radio since it existed Iām pretty sure. Discord is the one doing the simulating.
I understand. But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it? Now I have to write a bot if I want others to interact with it. Have to write rules so people can submit their own sounds and manage the volume on each one of the sounds.
Also, discord soundboard does seem to somehow stream or play the soundboard item locally at a higher quality than what the voice channel provides (default for most discord voice channels is 64 kbps bit rate).
It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.
My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform. In my experience within my own life out of every 30 people or so, 1 or 2 will truly care about privacy and security. This is with having a career in IT, with some family members also in IT and most of my friends are IT or IT adjacent. Most people are looking for tools that provide with the richest set of features they can easily use while giving the users the semblance of privacy. So for a new platform to welcome them it has to be very feature complete with its competitors or offer something beyond the lost features the users truly value.
But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it?
They donāt, theyād use their own soundboard. Also what kind of audio are you playing that needs to be more than 64kbps?
It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.
A soundboard is an individual feature. Thereās a difference between a soundboard and Discordās audio reacts regardless of what Discord calls them.
My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform.
A soundboard hosted by the platform provider is probably the last feature Iād care about from a noIM platform, but I guess Iām not the target audience.
My biggest problem with Discord is itās a walled garden. So much info thatās inaccessible to the rest of the world.
Yeah. Soon as I realized that at some point Discord either has to sell or IPO the platform was eventually going to deteriorate.
Itās already got some odd limitations. Character limits. Very tight file upload limit. And streaming limitations. But hey, Nitro/Boost fixes it.
Worse part? If most of the limitations were removed for the price of $1 or $2 a month it might be more acceptable (at least for me). $10 feels steep for nitro. When I see that price tag, it signals I might not be the target audience. Which is weird when Iām pretty sure Iām a subset of the target audience.
TacoButtPlugSame. I still want to log in and change every comment to āfuck spezā.