TeamSpeak Feedback, if you ever want to surpass discord

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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)

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You can already upload own icons and use them for server/group/channel.

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There is a client List already.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think non-P2P screen sharing is also very important.

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