Wire-desktop: Permanent Rooms/Channels

[tmikaeld]

Similar to Discord, it would enable Gamers to use Wire for this purpose.

Similar: #382

[alien2003]

anyway Wire is not a good solution for games. It's not low-latency like Mumble or Discord

[tmikaeld]

That's actually incorrect, they use the same tech. Both use Electron + WebRTC

[ConorIA]

Is that much of a use case here? There are a lot of apps in the gaming sector. How would Wire pull users from those other apps?

[tmikaeld]

@ConorIA I think that if Wire can get a hold of the business users, they can wire that into gaming when the platform has matured and they have added third-party-integrations. That, coupled with privacy, encryption and open source (unlike competitors) - i really think it can work.

[Strit]

Discord is a much better solution for gamers at this point.

Only downside to Discord is that it's not Open Source and you can't host a/the server your self.

[EgbertW]

Discord lacks any kind of privacy and encryption. All chat is disclosed to all current and future users of a server, and the company behind it.

On the other hand: Wire can't be self-hostes either.

Discord mobile app is no match for Wire. I use Discord with a group of gaming buddies, if Wire would support low latency in-game voice chat channels, I could get them to switch.

Still, I have to agree that it's quite a deviation and shouldn't be a priority in my opinion.

[Strit]

Most gamers do not care very much about encryption though. At least not in the games I've played with people. They want something easy to setup and use.

[helenakos]

Thanks for your request, we don't have it planned at the moment so closing this issue.

On a side note, you can open an issue for general comments (not related to any client / specific repository) here: https://github.com/wireapp/wire