Speaking straight technically, TeamSpeak might be better than discord, especially lately, during some peak hours some discord servers are under a heavy load and that hurts voice quality and streams and etc, for that sole reason some of my friends installed TeamSpeak to stay there when that happens.
But, from my professional point of view, here are some things that if you don’t add you will never surpass discord:
Make servers more customizable, icon for the servers, roles, custom emojis, a tab to see members online and offline etc, that’s just some basic stuff people got used to, to make a specific place on the internet to feel like home.
Separate text channels from voice channels, when it comes to groups of people, small or large, in most cases, they will want to check out whats happening between their friends without necessarily joining a voice channel, as not everyone always has energy to talk or listen, and just wants to check stuff out, maybe post a meme or something, or just casually texting (, and joining muted in a voice channel just to read whats going on on the text channel its awkward and uncomfortable).
With separation of voice and text channels, more settings for them too, access settings for different roles, to be able to make a channel view only for some users and others to post important stuff, etc.
Bots integrations, for a large variety of stuff, activities, feed, etc.
I’m not saying to copy discord entirely, its a lot of useless BS on discord (like avatar animations avatar border, different fonts for username, animated profile backgrounds, no we don’t need that ■■■■), but its a lot of good stuff too, that people are used to, that its hard to give up just for “better voice quality”.
I’m aware people provided similar feedback previously, but its just the sad truth for you, if you don’t make that stuff happen, people are not gonna swap over. (also drop that backwards compatibility or whatever, idk just something i’ve seen people talk about, but just focus on the new client and make it good)
Totally needed yes, text only channels for announcements etc would be nice to have. In general a persistent channel chat is needed.
With the current permission system you can already control who can view for example channel descriptions or members that are in the channel. Or do you mean that the channel will then be completely invisible, as is the case with Discord?
More bot stuff would be neat too, atm you can use the teamspeak 3 bots with all their features. They are able to join and interact with teamspeak 6 servers/clients.
I agree. Specially now that discord is going full ‘papers, please’ at beginning of March 2026. I will be switching my community to teamspeak. So far, the lack of being able to view other text channels while connected to one VC is the limiting factor here. Bots are easy enough to make for teamspeak though. I’ve written tons of them using the ServerQuery.
I agree heavily with the second point. Not having separate/persistent text chats is not great. Group chats kinda help make up for this, but they’re at best an inconvenient workaround. I don’t want Teamspeak to become Discord by any means but lacking separate text chats is huge. If I am paying for a server, having to use a group chat separate from that server for persistent messages feels quite bad. With how common this sentiment is I would be very surprised if they don’t end up adding it.
Also, custom server emotes would be cool too. Not a dealbreaker but would be nice.
Good luck, the community has been crying out for persistent messaging for years. Someone will point out that teamspeak does something similar, in a way that is totally unusable, and the devs will continue developing features no one needs right now.
Something I don’t think anyone has mentioned is out of the box, free self-hosted server support for more than 32 people concurrently.
The larger Discord servers easily have over a hundred thousand people. TeamSpeak absolutely cannot be considered by these servers right now, even after considering the fact that joins aren’t persistent on TS.
I understand that funding is probably fairly tight right now, but TeamSpeak is no longer just being considered by small groups. 32 people without a license will get someone laughed out for suggesting it. It absolutely MUST be bumped up to some degree or it simply just will not be considered.
Id like to add, as another annoying Linux user, that the screen sharing selection screen can be improved to benefit all platforms. I’ve seen examples of a good interface by the Vencord developers for handling screen share & audio.
All that is done is the selection for the screen by either application, window, or screen AND separate the selection for audio. Multiple audio streams being selectable is preferable, but even selecting a specific stream to ensure that the correct audio is playing is huge.
This shifts the burden of the application hooking onto audio streams in a platform agnostic manner to ‘best first guess’ and user manageable on windows, Mac, & Linux.
If TeamSpeak wants to catch the wave of people leaving Discord because of its security breaches, data leaks and the newly discussed face-id authentication, they need to update the client ASAP! I changed from discord to teamspeak, thinking, oh they have video streaming etc. just to pay $8 and find out almost none of the features claimed to be there, arent… like the screen sharing… We need a more user friendly client. If you want to make money go from this “just for nerdy gamers” to “all gamers” meaning making your client MUCH more user friendly. Im already thinking switching back to Discord even tho i dont want to just because its so much more convenient… please teamspeak, i want to like you, i want to use you, but i just cant.. atleast not yet… dont miss this wave like you missed the other waves.
Unfortunately this will likely never happen, TS will never “catch the wave”. They’ve had a long time and TS6 is still no where near enough to capture any real mass appeal. I would LOVE to eat my words on this but the UI/UX is really unpolished still, the TS6 servers have tons of bugs still, screen sharing over p2p in 2026 is absolute absurdity, and they don’t really seem to care.
I’m sure they care about their user base and their software as it is, but I don’t think the dev team has ever wanted this to take over as “the new discord” or anything like that. Their social media person sure as hell does though lol!
Too bad. I could deal with so many negatives but the lack of decent text chat implementation for servers and the screen sharing being abysmal combos me OUT.
Yeah, i mean in my opinion we dont even need that many features to be added for TS6 to be like Discord. You should be able to view a channel without joining in it, that ones like self explanatory in my opinion… The text chat implementation is one and making the server settings more user friendly is another. The thing i was upset about the most is that screen-sharing straight to server without needing to expose your IP is not an option even tho it was said to come like a year ago… Paying for the server is not a problem for me cause its still cheaper that Nitro in Discord. Im so sad that TeamSpeak is not even trying to catch the wave cause they easily could. I dont know if they lack of resources or staff but not even that many implementations is needed to make for people to change from Discord to TS6, just make server simpler and give them a decent text chat and publish the server files for server streaming. Even those would be enough and dont sound that difficult to implement, but im not a programmer so i dont really know. Im just holding my fingers crossed cause i really dont want to change back to Discord but if in the next months theres not even a single update that shows they care, im doing it anyway…
I really hope they do try to use this time as a advantage to try to revive teamspeak. Honestly with how consumer privacy is and not that many self hosted voip providers for the gaming industry i do hope teamspeak tries to use this time to revive themselves.
They already have an advantage but they are squandering it.
It’s been so painful to watch and why I’m so bitter about it because I genuinely want them to do well. They have had years to do something sensible with teamspeak.
Yeah, I agree. The P2P is great for a few people, but it gets absurdly expensive the more people watch your stream. I wouldn’t mind upgrading to 1gbps internet if they added server streaming (I’m hosting my own TS6 server)
also pretty heavy on the wants for this, sep audio and text would be good, the plugin for better chat has many features that should even just be native,also want a who can message/whisper option of friends list only instead of anyone or no one
I also agree that we need separate Text Channels. I mean we have 2026 and almost noone host a separate forum for their communitys. The communitys need to update also their offline users for Stuff like events, news etc…
I know its Teamspeak and not Teamwrite but its not just that you can host a free Voice with Discord what made Teamspeak die its also that it Combine Voice and Forum. So just to add a better ability to Chat with separate Chat Channels and „offline“ Chat would Upgrade Teamspeak to another Level.
Hope the Best that the Devs make a good Choice on this suggestion.
