[STEAM] Don’t trust Discord with your ID? Here are five alternative platforms to try

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Discord recently announced that it's going to make everyone fork over their IDs or perform face scans unless they want to have a "teen-by-default" limited account. It prompted many folks, myself included, to seek out alternatives for the platform, something new to get used to ahead of the planned rollout of this global change in March.

Luckily, I managed to find five alternatives (two of which you probably can guess already) to get myself and my friends situated. What made Discord great is still absent from the majority of alternatives out there, but maybe the time is right for rapid updates, and we might see significant improvements to alternative gaming-oriented chat apps in the coming months.

So, here's what I found.

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No place like home. Image via Steam Steam Chat, both as a dedicated app and as part of Steam itself, is a highly functional, integrated way to communicate with your friends or larger groups of people. While not as detailed or as refined as Discord in any way, you can create infinite groups for free based on any niche you like.

The voice chat features are very good, with audio quality being almost too good (it picks up sounds you never knew were there). It can lag out sometimes, but it still remains one of the easiest ways to start talking with your friends, because who doesn't use Steam these days?

After all, it's part of the broader Steam experience, and Valve now has the opportunity of a lifetime to make Steam Chat into a comprehensive tool for communication, perhaps with custom servers, screen sharing, and other features that most Discord alternatives sorely lack.

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