Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Discordant Voices

Next in a slightly irregular series of port forwarding business, Discord chat is most annoying. For reasons best known to the devs, they have chosen a vast port range that voice chat is initiated on - I'm sure there is a very good reason, it's not just them being lazy. Is it?

All kudos to them though, it is one of the best pieces of software to come out in the last few years for gamers. It is pretty much essential, is free (but you can support them and you get animated emojis), and doesn't seem to want to install horrible bits of malware or steal all your data. As a bonus, the patch notes generally have a sense of humour - whilst not going to rival say, Dwarf Fortress, for silliness (which is a big ask), they are at least inventive and may crack a smile, a chance to pat yourself on the back and say, 'I got that reference!'. Top work all round.

Any road, ports required for voice are:

UDP: 50000 - 53500

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