I disagree on the ease of use of the other tools. I ran a mumble server for a guild for almost 10 years and it was quit easy and awesome to use... for voice. Then due to reasons I turned it off for a while and by the time I came back everyone was on discord...
The main thing that discord did was combine voice with the chat side of things, and with per user chats and history. A lot of people don't know that mumble has a pretty decent html capable chat, but it's the history searching, dynamic rooms etc that set discord apart. Mumble still has the superior voice capabilities (simultaneous multiroom, easy permission, hierarchical, etc)
I have put most of my hope in mattermost to do murmur integration to solve this problem.
In the meantime I find myself considering trying to get everyone back on irc+mumble.
edit: Also, just have to say I bet the gov loves having a single place to send all those NSL's... cough hint cough
The main thing that discord did was combine voice with the chat side of things, and with per user chats and history. A lot of people don't know that mumble has a pretty decent html capable chat, but it's the history searching, dynamic rooms etc that set discord apart. Mumble still has the superior voice capabilities (simultaneous multiroom, easy permission, hierarchical, etc)
I have put most of my hope in mattermost to do murmur integration to solve this problem.
In the meantime I find myself considering trying to get everyone back on irc+mumble.
edit: Also, just have to say I bet the gov loves having a single place to send all those NSL's... cough hint cough