Not sure about websites. Not too many guilds these days actually have websites that are active and serve a purpose.
As for VOIP, Discord seems to be the way to go these days. totally free, anyone can make a server, great sound quality, multi-platform and low resource usage. Supports both text and voice, as well as direct private text and voice calls.
Resident smug Englishman on the NA servers, just because.
not sure about hosting and stuff, but for VOIP, I prefer discord. its free, easy to set up and has no slot limitations.
you can read about the features here: https://discordapp.com/features
70 ‘mains’ and waiting for more slots
| 61 Asura | 5 Charr | 2 Norn | 1 Human | 1 Sylvari |
My two main guilds use Enjin for forums and permanent threads holding art and writing, and Discord for ephemeral chatter in text and voice. It works well, even if Enjin goes bizarro at times.
Discord is fantastic. I really recommend it for anything other than posting information you want to access weeks or months later. It offers a continuous buzz of conversation but no pressure to monitor the chat unless you have the mental time and energy since you can scroll back easily enough (my guilds are small, chat doesn’t overflow in minutes).
Discord doesn’t work for me because of two reasons:
- The application (for those who install it), offers too many opt-out options in an effort to be helpful. People start their laptop while at work and start hearing random chat about the game, because it’s “always on” (until you turn it off).
- Their text-to-speech option broadcasts in all channels within the same node, rather than just to the the channel to which the /TTS is posted. Any group that includes a person that doesn’t use a mic has to create a separate node.
Both those handicaps can be worked around, but they don’t have to be in Mumble (a 10-site license comes free with Enjin).
If your guildies just use the web version (i.e. never install the application) and don’t need TTS, Discord is otherwise really easy and effective. And, the price is right.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
I can agree with the ups and downs with Discord, but if you want a standalone client-server architecture without having to pay, I will definitely side with Mumble. However, Discord has a lot of flex, and has definitely ironed out some bumps, even if you need to do some options cleaning-up on your first sign-in.
Still, both of those have their equal weights — Discord is mained on their architecture, but you can host your own independent Mumble server. The choice is strictly yours.
“To be rid of chaos, all must restore the balance.”
Part of the [PORT] mystical tour – “Marilee Mangletooth.” What main?
Something something Autechre fanatic.
