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For jumping into voice and watching something with your friends? That's the idea. Strife brings Mumble voice, channel chat, and Helltube into one desktop window. It isn't trying to recreate every Discord feature. We have other things to procrastinate on.

You need access to a Mumble/Murmur server and a Helltube server. Run your own or join servers someone else operates. Strife is the client; it doesn't include a hosted community service or set up servers for you. The getting-started wiki walks through hosting, and the server scripts automate the setup.

Yes. Strife uses the native Mumble client for capture, audio processing, networking, and global shortcuts. Vanilla servers don't need a special plugin or a Strife-shaped hole punched in them.

Yes. The current downloads show incoming embedded images inline, sized to the chat pane. Linked images keep their targets. Unsupported or unreadable images show a text placeholder; remote image URLs are not loaded as attachments.

Windows now has a smaller online installer: Setup bundles the app and voice engine and downloads missing or incompatible Microsoft runtimes. Existing users must run Setup manually once to move to the schema 2 update feed, even if they already have automatic updates. Portable packaging is unchanged. See the Windows prerequisite details.

Clearer voice status, less clutter: your own row uses an accent rail, tinted background, and filled avatar instead of a YOU badge. Separate microphone-off and headphones-off icons show muted and deafened states, including both together. Panel headers have tighter drag-grip spacing, and vertical collapsed panels put expand and position options directly below their name.

Windows includes the Xbox Wireless reconnect fix. The controller can reconnect without Strife waiting for another button press to notice its previous disconnect. Controller shortcuts stay enabled; no driver bypass is required.

Windows installed builds now update quietly: downloads happen in the background, the small Update button installs and restarts, and normal exit installs ready updates without reopening Strife. Older installs need a one-time manual migration; see Windows update instructions. Portable, Linux and macOS builds remain manual-update only. The downloads retain a chat image viewer, a dockable Downloads panel, and Helltube room and video-mute controls. With an updated Helltube server, HLS playback goes directly to its HTTPS media backend; sign-in and controls still use Strife's private local proxy. See the desktop media and download setup notes.

Browser screen sharing remains available. The experimental native OBS sharing helper is not packaged in the installers or archives. Windows development builds now have source previews, application audio selection, and quality controls through 4K. These are development-only features, not features of the downloads above.

RNNoise microphone noise suppression is included and enabled by default. Input devices, processing, and push-to-talk bindings are configured in the native voice settings. Results still depend on your microphone. We're software, not an exorcist.

Your voice and chat go through the Mumble server you connect to; video and its account live on your chosen Helltube server. Their operators control those services. Strife keeps its settings locally. This landing page uses no analytics scripts, advertising trackers, or cookies; hosting providers may still retain request logs.

Please do. The source is on GitHub. The app is built with PhotinoX and the native Mumble client, with Helltube providing the video interface. Bugs belong in the issue tracker. Hot takes can stay in voice.