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What chat service should we switch to, or should we stay on Skype?

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Caaaaarrrrlll:
I whole heartedly agree with mercilessdegree on all points.

You already have this forum software that everyone knows about and probably has an account on. Steering everyone away to a new platform could disrupt your ability to grab back the attention you so sharply desire.

And yes, Skype has an app for desktop, mobile, and web, which is cross-platform as well. I use the Skype app on my Android often enough as well to say that it has a few bugs but they're not usability bugs; I can still get effective communication done using the Skype app despite its bugs.

It does sound like Skye is a fan of Discord with the snide comment about the other three, especially with lack of fact comparison to the other three; Slack's mobile app is arguably better than the other three–it has little to no bugs, it's cross-platform (Android, iOS, etc.), it integrates well with the desktop/web clients (e.g. marking a message read on mobile will also mark it read on desktop/web, and so will marking a message as unread). You can sign in to multiple teams at once and switch through them. You can see when there's unread messages in any of the channels, direct messages, or cross-teams. It has gif support (most mobile chat software doesn't support gifs, Atlassian's HipChat software and Skype are examples that come to mind). I can go on and on.

I want to highlight a point I made in my previous post: Discord is the current fad of team communication. There are many alternatives that are tried and true and have withstood the time test, TeamSpeak 3 is one of these. It has a mobile app as well, if that's really a feature we're keen on comparing.

However, if what mercilessdegree said is true, in that:

--- Quote ---We've had a skype group for years and rarely has anyone actually gone and tried to call at all, and as far as I know, no one is really interested in it too much.
--- End quote ---
Then it makes sense not to use TeamSpeak or Discord since these are specifically more oriented and designed to voice chat users. Slack is definitely more engaged in their text chat and integration with other services (you can get monitor alerts for when servers go down, or when a change is made in your code, as well as custom integrations you can create yourself). Slack also supports customizing emojis out of the box, if that's your forte.

I also want to point out a YouTube video shared with me just today, which highlights even bigger problems with Discord than I've described in both my previous post and this post:

Vector:
Updated title and poll options to clarify what the goal of this poll is about.

SGT_ADZ:
Have you thought about using one in conjunction with the other? Skype + Teamspeak would be a good combo. Good chat, and good audio respectively. I personally prefer Teamspeak over the others, but having not tried Slack or Discord, my opinion isn't relevant.

Vector:
I derped again. Changed topic title to:


--- Quote ---What chat service should we switch to, or should we stay on Skype?

--- End quote ---

Vector:
Sorry for the late reply, but a few things stood in the way of us moving forward with this decision. At any rate, as the polls say mostly Discord, I have made the decision to move the community to discord. When the discord is ready I will make an announcement and a newsletter about it. As far as things go, I would like to keep the Skype operational until there is no longer any reason to have it, that way we can have a sort of transition for those who aren't yet comfortable with discord yet would like to still use Skype for the time being.

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