I greatly appreciate the sharing of the beta version of the server. I think it is a good step towards bringing the project to a successful outcome.
I will wait for the next update which I hope will be in the next few months.
I have tested it a little bit in local and it looks good. I liked the option to share multiple windows in parallel streaming.
But until there is no screen sharing feature through the server, I will not deploy it on the VPS because it is the main feature I am looking for a real use.
It has already been commented by other users previously, but I am going to list what I think is key to develop it in the future:
Finalize the screen sharing feature to work through the server (I know you are working on it so I guess it will be a reality soon).
Add a real text chat channel on the servers (self hosted). Right now you can write through the voice channel but it is very limited. You can’t even delete sent messages.
The following points I think are important to review so that you can decide if they need to be changed.
Simplify the permission system of the servers. It has become quite obsolete and is overwhelming for someone who doesn’t know it.
Revise the server slot limit. In 2025 I think it would make more sense to allow servers (self hosted) to have 128 slot limit and from that point onwards consider it community so that it is necessary to pay for it, self hosted or not (while being cheaper for the self-hosted version).
Some features that I think are useful but not a priority.
Ability to update the server version automatically.
Start to discontinue old obsolete versions. I have the feeling that you have too many simultaneous open projects. It would be better to reunite and definitely abandon (officially) the ones that are not going to be developed anymore.
From my point of view, you should only maintain and develop Teamspeak 6 client (Desktop), Teamspeak 6 server and Temspeak 6 Smartphone.
Add ARM support for Self hosted servers.
I really hope that teamspeak continues on a good path, as it is more necessary than ever to have the option to communicate with friends and family by a private and secure way.
You really need to reconsider the social media strategy, and whoever is in charge of twitter (I assume it’s @SYOX) needs to talk to the team more and “chat sh!t” less. Hyping up TS6 since January even leaning on screenshare as a killer feature only to release it with only managed hosting, no server SFU support, and no hardware acceleration, then take ~7 months to release server files only to limit them to 5 slots. On a 5 slot server you can do QA/functionality testing in the form of “does it power on, does permission editing work”, not actual testing by your community (which would consist of replacing your TS3 server with TS6, having a bunch of people get on and use it as a daily driver for some time and coming back with useful day-to-day usage feedback).
You can’t be posting “DeLeTe YoUr DiScOrD AcCoUnT” type of posts on socialmedia and play cringe word games with those who dare confront you in the replies about it if you’ll fail to deliver on such a monumental scale. Please think long and hard about this. This isn’t even late/slow development, it’s just idiotic decisionmaking, because as much as I prefer TS over Discord, there’s no other words to describe it. The “who wants to test server files” engagement bait posts you’ve been making on twitter really don’t help if the “testing” you offer is 5 slots with no license carry-over. At least make the beta TS6 server masquerade as TS 3.17 and use the same licensing backend, and later move to a new one when releasing the files proper. You won’t miss out on revenue if your dedicated community of testers will be able to temporarily use their main server’s license to, you know, actually test the server software.
Once the slot limit is raised/removed/licenses can be carried over for testing I’ll move my community server to 6 and see how it works under actual load/stress. Hopefully this happens sooner, rather than later.
The focus here is on the server. Twitter’s social media is good and funny, it engages the public with what it has at its disposal and I don’t see a problem with that. They have nothing to post in general and they find a funny way to at least post something and keep the twitter account engaged.
The posts make the team look infantile and unprofessional. There’s nothing wrong with being lighthearted, but you can’t make posts about how you’re better than Discord if your product is nowhere near being able to replace it for the average user, or even power users.
I am not saying they have to be boring and corporate, I’m just saying that they look incredibly stupid when they posts for the millionth time about “le discord bad” and then take half a year to release server files they already have gated behind a paywall on their community managed hosting service.
Edit: To be clear, I totally understand it’s a small team, they are known to work slowly, I understand that you have to be witty and funny to break through to front pages/for you feeds on social media and all that. I just think that interactions like THESE should never happen if you’re trying to steal customers from another product that you’re trying to catch up to after years of lagging behind
Edit2: This is a “stern love” type of feedback. I don’t hate TeamSpeak - in fact, quite the opposite, I spent my entire childhood on teamspeak servers playing on minecraft faction servers. The program has a special place in my heart, and a special preference over Discord. I just wish that things weren’t run so weirdly at times. The 5 slot limit is insanely out of touch, the twitter posts are out of character for teamspeak being this “established titan of the voice comms industry with huge clients like NASA”, etc etc, etc, the list goes on.
I’ve also been following the posts for a long time and was very curious about what would come.
And now we’re all standing together in front of this giant mess, wondering whether they’re trying to make fun of us.
And if you take a closer look at the development pace in recent years, it should be clear to everyone that nothing groundbreaking will happen in the next 2–3 years either. There’s just too much to catch up on, and it’s painfully obvious that the team is not capable of handling it.
You have to understand that many people here are incredibly disappointed with what was delivered—especially this unbelievably stupid decision to impose a 5-slot limit. I still can’t wrap my head around how someone could be **** enough to make such a decision. Truly insane.
I’ve barely got my friends to swtich from discord to ts6. Self-hosted ts6 beta 3 and i have one and only one issue - 5 slots max. Could you make it atleast 10 please? it’s just not enough. We have a group of 7 people and it really just the only one limiting factor for us.
Its not done yet. I literally see you posting under every thread.
Anyhow, not to silence feedback, cause this is indeed very important.
But a beta is a beta, if screenshare would not even work right now, its still ok, cause guess what still a beta.
Long story short, why not beeing constructive, test, give feedback and engage in real conversations.
For me, I do not switch cause of the screenshare, if this would be a feature I would need, I would switch to some other applications long long ago.
Hell I am not even happy with the new client, but this wont stop me with testing, breaking and reporting when I find something new and or annoying.
Fact is, if they dont change the limit, most people will:
A.) Stay with Ts3
B.) Leave Ts as a whole.
Been here since Ts2, switch to Ts3 was also not THAT easy or fast. But here we are, waiting for hopefully something great. And if we convert some Discord kids in the process I would be very happy
I just want to say, you people losing your minds over a lack of screenshare and 5 seats two days after a beta launch we asked for are likely a big reason there was a lack of communication for months - I wouldn’t want to engage with you lot either.
Keep calm, test it out, give positive and constructive feedback. They’ll fix it.
That being said:
The documentation on docker could be a little better, like the permissions mentioned above.
Maybe postgress support in addition to mariadb? More variety the better, would help with admin things.
Definitely need actual text channels. I don’t want to say this product has to become discord, but if you want to start pulling people away from discord you’re going to have to have some similarities so the learning curve isn’t so steep.
I know it’s beta, but iOS/android client when? Mobile support is going to be HUGE for bringing people in.
ARM support would be VERY nice, I know a lot of people would love to toss a TS6 server on a raspberry pi or something similar.
Thank you for the server files, 5 seats is more than enough for 4-person coop games and I’ll be testing it extensively with friends. If you’re unwilling to give more than 5 seats, maybe give 5 voice seats and more text seats, split them into two categories?
Im currently hosting a ts3 server for my friends and their friends and sometimes we have a full scale cs2 tournament with up to full 32 slot capacity. it would be a nice opportunity to test performance wise if the server can hold up to that numbers as well as make a server based screensharing possible like in a discord call so that we finally can use discord only for chatting again.
I kinda feel cheated right now i was praising to my friends that you guys will deliver someday but i guess its time to take off the rose-colored glasses will do a full scale testing if the slots increase and screensharing is available until then stick to the trusty steed of v3.13.7
Nice to see that you apparently haven’t read any of my posts at all. I never criticized the lack of server-side screensharing — quite the opposite, in fact. I said that it’s totally fine and that good quality takes time.
What I am criticizing, however, is the 5-slot limit. I, along with many others here, can’t properly test this beta because we simply can’t get enough people on the server. Are we supposed to split our communities now or what? Nobody’s going to do that — nobody cares for that approach.
To this day, I still haven’t received an answer to my question about the intention behind this questionable decision. Any kind of statement from TeamSpeak about this has been completely ignored — and that’s exactly why I accuse the team of having malicious intent.
And don’t even try to tell me that I don’t know what a beta is. I make my living in software development.
It’s clear what a beta is, but here it’s less about the unfinished features and more about the spontaneous surprise with only 5 slots. I’m happy to wait for features, but with only 5 slots I can’t test them properly with my group of friends.
The fact that the whole thing came as such a surprise has certainly put off a lot of people who would have liked to switch because they’ve been waiting for it for a while but can’t do it this way.
The whole thing with the 5 slots would have gone better if:
a) communicated better in advance that these changes were coming and what they meant
b) there had been a way to increase the slots right from the start, even for money if you like. But even that doesn’t exist yet.
c) A new, well-integrated licence model with fair prices would have been introduced
Exactly. I do appreciate that the team finally came around with a new server version and that at least some progress is visible. But with the 5-slot limit, the TS6 server is simply unusable!
I would love to install it, move my people over to the new server, test it, and provide feedback.
But in its current state, the software is just useless for us.
I was wondering if it will be possible to reuse or convert the TS3 server MariaDB database for the new TeamSpeak 6 server.
At least I’d like to know if there will be a way to import at least the TS3 channels, their descriptions, and various server configurations into TS6, even server groups and channel groups… without re-doing everything from scratch again.
failed to download revocation list - count: 1
rejecting myteamspeakid: revoke list out of date
client is connecting with a invalid or revoked myTeamSpeak ID
Thanks for the surprisingly fast reaction but at this point I will wait until you fully disclose your licensing plans (referring to your 2 month expiring statement)
Maybe you can shed some light into this: will there be a fully functional self hosted free version with 32 slots similar to the ts3 server?
