Please understand that I’m not a programmer and so this is probably a really dumb question, but Mumble works so great for voice chat and it already has text chat capabilities. It could just do with a UI refresh and maybe some added functionality to really provide a much better alternative to Discord. Any thoughts?

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    8 hours ago

    It could just do with a UI refresh and maybe some added functionality

    That is actually huge ask.
    Mumble works in an “engineer brain” kinda way. Cause it has been made by engineers making sure the underlying tech is available to be used in so many scenarios.
    Making it work in a “user” kinda way is a huge change.
    And it would either make the code really difficult to maintain, or would isolate the power users by restricting the flexibility of mumble.
    The fact that mumble is FOSS is absolutely fantastic!

    Feel free to fork the project and refresh the UI.
    Or sponsored programmers to do this. If there is actually a market, you would be able to overtake mumble. You can even start from their codebase, the license is very permissive (just make sure you credit mumble!)