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by mont 2559 days ago
Mumble is pretty crummy for text chat from my experience. I still use it for voice on a fairly frequent basis, but having very ephemeral text logs (on client restart), and a lack of pinging users makes it a huge pain to use for text.

I would happily still use IRC however.
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LinuxBender 2559 days ago
Yeah, I prefer IRC too. I ended up shutting down all my IRC servers. Most folks moved to Discord/Slack and it just wasn't worth the effort to maintain them for my use case.

I only suggest murmur / mumble because they are super east to set up.

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q3k 2559 days ago
Have you tried Synapse/Matrix?
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LinuxBender 2559 days ago
A coworker suggested matrix, but I have been fine with murmur/mumble for my use cases. If a lot of people needed text chat, I would crank up the ol' IRC daemons and put TheLounge in front of it.
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