top | item 13343715 (no title) RansomTime | 9 years ago Discord might be an alternative for team/friend based conversations. They have group calling (don't need to share a server) now. Problem is that it's marketed towards gamers and so might not be fit for purpose for business purposes discuss order hn newest driverdan|9 years ago Mumble is a better choice since it's open source. RansomTime|9 years ago I'm not sure if it's a better choice for everyone. With mumble you'd need to maintain a server, for instance.If your primary concern is open source then mumble/jabber is probably your solution load replies (3) rawfan|9 years ago We've been using Mumble for bigger conferences for almost two years now because we couldn't find a better alternative.We tried Skype which is almost completely broken (used to work fine).We tried multiple WebRTC solutions like appear.in which only work fine up to three people.We tried Google hangouts, which worked fine but we didn't like the quality.Mumble worked fine, but only if people use push-to-talk. Otherwise you get horrible noise. Every scratching goes over the line.Skype Business supposedly works very well. We don't use it because we don't support Microsoft breaking the regular Skype.We currently use the audio conferencing feature of (paid) slack. It works extremely well and has great noise reduction.
driverdan|9 years ago Mumble is a better choice since it's open source. RansomTime|9 years ago I'm not sure if it's a better choice for everyone. With mumble you'd need to maintain a server, for instance.If your primary concern is open source then mumble/jabber is probably your solution load replies (3) rawfan|9 years ago We've been using Mumble for bigger conferences for almost two years now because we couldn't find a better alternative.We tried Skype which is almost completely broken (used to work fine).We tried multiple WebRTC solutions like appear.in which only work fine up to three people.We tried Google hangouts, which worked fine but we didn't like the quality.Mumble worked fine, but only if people use push-to-talk. Otherwise you get horrible noise. Every scratching goes over the line.Skype Business supposedly works very well. We don't use it because we don't support Microsoft breaking the regular Skype.We currently use the audio conferencing feature of (paid) slack. It works extremely well and has great noise reduction.
RansomTime|9 years ago I'm not sure if it's a better choice for everyone. With mumble you'd need to maintain a server, for instance.If your primary concern is open source then mumble/jabber is probably your solution load replies (3)
rawfan|9 years ago We've been using Mumble for bigger conferences for almost two years now because we couldn't find a better alternative.We tried Skype which is almost completely broken (used to work fine).We tried multiple WebRTC solutions like appear.in which only work fine up to three people.We tried Google hangouts, which worked fine but we didn't like the quality.Mumble worked fine, but only if people use push-to-talk. Otherwise you get horrible noise. Every scratching goes over the line.Skype Business supposedly works very well. We don't use it because we don't support Microsoft breaking the regular Skype.We currently use the audio conferencing feature of (paid) slack. It works extremely well and has great noise reduction.
driverdan|9 years ago
RansomTime|9 years ago
If your primary concern is open source then mumble/jabber is probably your solution
rawfan|9 years ago
We tried Skype which is almost completely broken (used to work fine).
We tried multiple WebRTC solutions like appear.in which only work fine up to three people.
We tried Google hangouts, which worked fine but we didn't like the quality.
Mumble worked fine, but only if people use push-to-talk. Otherwise you get horrible noise. Every scratching goes over the line.
Skype Business supposedly works very well. We don't use it because we don't support Microsoft breaking the regular Skype.
We currently use the audio conferencing feature of (paid) slack. It works extremely well and has great noise reduction.