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I'd like to introduce you to www.dotanoobs.com - a personal project to create a rage-free environment for both new and experienced players to have fun together.

Just moved from Wordpress to Flask, got the Valve Dota2 replay-parser running on Linux and am preparing some cool stuff with that on the back end.

tl;dr: get on teamspeak (voice.dotanoobs.com) and play with people who aren't mean.

discuss

maqr|12 years ago

Awesome. I've just started playing dota2 in a semi-serious way and it's incredibly frustrating not having 5 to play with. I don't mind being called a noob and getting critical feedback, but it's exceptionally difficult to learn how to play effectively with others when the pub community is so bad. Unfortunately, to play with good people, you have to learn how to play, and that's very hard if you can't play with good people. Your little community sounds like it'll be my gateway out of MM noob hell. I'll be on TS to try it out tonight :)

binaryatrocity|12 years ago

Glad to have you! While real-life might keep me away from my precious DotA this evening, hopefully I'll catch you soon! Feel free to add me on steam, name is the same as HN username.

BHSPitMonkey|12 years ago

This is cool, but why TeamSpeak and not Mumble? As someone who would be playing on Linux, this is a non-starter for me.

binaryatrocity|12 years ago

We started with Mumble server but moved to TeamSpeak because it is more feature-rich. I have the website now able to link your TeamSpeak/Steam/Forum accounts and am working on an interface where we can create "events" (in-houses, all mid days, other games, whatever) and you will earn "points" for attending those events.

TeamSpeak's serverquery let me do a lot of cool things easier than Mumble/ice. There is a TeamSpeak client for linux (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads)!

obviouslygreen|12 years ago

+1 for doing something genuinely pleasant for online gaming. This is something that would have been nice when I was into online gaming; hopefully it becomes more common for people to run their own vent/teamspeak servers not just for personal friends but based on attitude and level of commitment.