<story><title>Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tru3_power</author><text>The voice chat rooms reminds me exactly of this program called Ventrillo or “vent” as we used to call it back when I was in high school. I’m officially old!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>fish45</author><text>Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have made it through quarantine without Discord. I&amp;#x27;ve a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it&amp;#x27;s super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who&amp;#x27;s free can join.&lt;p&gt;I really wish there were competition, but there&amp;#x27;s nothing AFAIK that can replicate this particular experience except for Teamspeak, which has other problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vehementi</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly it yes. Discord is ventrilo&amp;#x2F;mumble&amp;#x2F;teamspeak, but hosted and with IRC channels.</text></comment>
<story><title>Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord-ends-deal-talks-with-microsoft-11618938806</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tru3_power</author><text>The voice chat rooms reminds me exactly of this program called Ventrillo or “vent” as we used to call it back when I was in high school. I’m officially old!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ventrilo.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>fish45</author><text>Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have made it through quarantine without Discord. I&amp;#x27;ve a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it&amp;#x27;s super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who&amp;#x27;s free can join.&lt;p&gt;I really wish there were competition, but there&amp;#x27;s nothing AFAIK that can replicate this particular experience except for Teamspeak, which has other problems.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lacker</author><text>okay oldie... when I was in high school if you wanted to talk to your friends while playing games with them you both needed a second phone line, so your 56k modems could use the other line to play Doom</text></comment>