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What’s your favorite color?

I haven’t heard of it!

I don’t use the launcher’s search functions, so I can’t answer that for you. Sorry!

TL;DR: I’ve used all 3 and prefer Grace Launcher over Victoria and Niagara.

I ran Victoria for a few weeks and it never did feel quite right. I had Grace launcher installed just to keep up with development alongside Victoria.

At first I really wanted to make Victoria work because it really felt like a fresh take on the Niagara style launcher, while Grace felt like a Niagara clone. Eventually, Victoria had an update that broke things for me and I switched to Grace full time. Grace seems to have found its own personality while still feeling familiar.

Grace offers a better experience than Niagara’s free version without a doubt, and Niagara’s paid version is too much and too costly now.

Based on my own experience, there’s a few things that could help with this in the future.

Don’t underestimate the power of just relaxing a bit.

Make sure to warm up with a plug or another toy before hand.

More lube and more practice.

My group and I floated around different services for a while, self-hosting what we could. The requirements for us were really just a server with text channels and persistent messages, voice chat, and screen sharing.

We tried:

• Stoat (Revolt at the time) but we moved on before voice and video were rolled out.
• Matrix but voice and video weren’t really feasible.
• Steam chat but messages are deleted after 2 weeks and screen share didn’t really work.
• Teamspeak 6 was amazing for voice and video but chat was really only useful while online as messages aren’t really stored anywhere to load what was sent while you were offline, so we kept Steam chat for general conversations.

We finally landed on GameVox recently which has good voice and video, easy discord server import for channels and permissions, good chat features, and an extremely responsive dev who fixes issues almost immediately. I find that it isn’t as pretty as other alternatives out there and unfortunately it isn’t open-source, but the additional features compared to the other options will probably make it our new home for quite a while.

Oh heck yeah!

I feel exactly the same as you.

Nice!