Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming

Mumble is much better for gaming. It’s lightweight and doesn’t use the GPU at all. Since it’s self hosted, there is no ID verification.

Mumble is also ONLY voice chat. The problem is that Discord is so many useful things at the same time - text chat, voice chat, video chat, and game streaming, all integrated together seamlessly - that it’s hard to move off of when you need a whole suite of applications to replace it.

I wonder if slopping webapp alternatives together would provide a close enough alternative