Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

The de facto chat client used by gamers, often at the expense of platform-provided solutions, so I hope mods let this fly. Screen sharing of a game window is something that Discord figured out before anyone else, and it still might be the only one in town that works well for that use case. I’m about to start doing more research to see if any other programs can be subbed in, because this sucks. Wario64 facetiously linked a story about Discord getting hacked and revealing government IDs right underneath this story on Bluesky.

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    How does it handle game windows? Presumably TeamSpeak cares more about such a use case, but I have to ask. How well does P2P screen sharing work for a group of about 10 people?

    • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Because it’s client-side, it just depends. The specs of the computer sharing and available internet bandwidth will be a factor. In my experience it’s pretty reliable for non-video content, YT videos vary but are mostly fine. With games it depends on the video bit rate of the game. Minecraft would probably be fine, but Battlefield 6 may struggle. You only need the TeamSpeak 6 client to hop in a group call and try it out (an account is required as it’s in beta). If you do configure a TeamSpeak 6 server, you can screen share within the voice chat channel. Though I understand it probably isn’t easy to persuade your friends to try a new program. If you run into any issues, the support forum is very active.

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        I can convince my friends to try lots of things if I take care of the hard parts. Discord’s changes are not going over well in our server, so we’re looking for the parachutes. I understand it depends, but would you say it works well enough? Or is there even some other hack we can run where I’ve got OBS open in another window sending a stream out to something that isn’t Twitch, like our own video clients? If that’s easy enough to do, I could even convince my friends to do that.

        • gccalvin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          18 hours ago

          I would say yes, it works well enough, and with updates, it should get better. Discord’s streaming is server-based, which is why it works well. When server-based screen sharing is released, it should exceed Discord. You also won’t need to buy Nitro. My group has been on TeamSpeak for years, and I’ve looked at a lot of different replacements but none of them fit my requirements (self-hosted, voice chat rooms, screen sharing.) I think the main thing for your group is if TeamSpeak would be sufficient to replace Discord. TeamSpeak currently doesn’t have the same features, such as text-channels, as Discord, so that has been a deal-breaker for some. My group never used them because we’ve been on TeamSpeak from the beginning. Text-channels in particular have been the most common request outside of screen sharing, so I think they will get implemented eventually, but the development team is smaller, so it will likely take many more months. Outside of the screen sharing, if TeamSpeak as an application works for your use case, then I would try it. You can host your own server or use one of their communities. You can also just add each other as contacts and start a call.