Voidfire

A casual gaming clan, focussing on a friendly environment for everyone to have a good time.

Chat

We use Matrix for out-of-game chat. It is a federated open-source chat protocol, allowing everyone to join and host their own servers. If you haven't used it before, Element is likely to be the easiest client to get going.

To chat along, join the Matrix space, #voidfire:matrix.org.

Voice

For voice we use Mumble, a free and open source voice chat server. You do not need to register an account, just configure your client and connect!

Connecting to Mumble

Go to the Mumble download page and download the appropriate version for your system. Once installed, start Mumble and get through the audio tuning wizard. This will help you get the best audio quality from your hardware. If you're unsure what to do, you can generally safely keep pressing Next, but some people may ask you to change up some settings while chatting.

After you completed the audio tuning wizard, or whenever you start Mumble afterwards, you'll be presented with a connection window. Click Add New... and enter your desired username. Its generally easiest to use the same name you use as your character name in-game. Next is a window for the server connection details, where you only need to edit the server Address. Set this to mumble.voidfire.com. Next you can press Connect!

Bragi

This is a Mumble bot we use to play music in the background. You can interact with this bot through commands, of which you can get a list by typing !help in the Mumble chat. The most useful commands are !url to add a new song to the queue, and !skip to skip the currently playing song.

Why not Ventrilo/Teamspeak/Skype/Discord/...

Mumble has existed for a long time, and has been incredibly stable with good options for noise control and voice activation, while also being very light on resources.

We have used Mumble for a long time, and we've seen various alternatives rise and fall within that time. Mumble shows no signs of enshittifying, and as such remains our preferred means of voice chat.