I'd like to introduce you to www.dotanoobs.com - a personal project to create a rage-free environment for both new and experienced players to have fun together.
Just moved from Wordpress to Flask, got the Valve Dota2 replay-parser running on Linux and am preparing some cool stuff with that on the back end.
tl;dr: get on teamspeak (voice.dotanoobs.com) and play with people who aren't mean.
Awesome. I've just started playing dota2 in a semi-serious way and it's incredibly frustrating not having 5 to play with. I don't mind being called a noob and getting critical feedback, but it's exceptionally difficult to learn how to play effectively with others when the pub community is so bad. Unfortunately, to play with good people, you have to learn how to play, and that's very hard if you can't play with good people. Your little community sounds like it'll be my gateway out of MM noob hell. I'll be on TS to try it out tonight :)
Glad to have you! While real-life might keep me away from my precious DotA this evening, hopefully I'll catch you soon! Feel free to add me on steam, name is the same as HN username.
We started with Mumble server but moved to TeamSpeak because it is more feature-rich. I have the website now able to link your TeamSpeak/Steam/Forum accounts and am working on an interface where we can create "events" (in-houses, all mid days, other games, whatever) and you will earn "points" for attending those events.
TeamSpeak's serverquery let me do a lot of cool things easier than Mumble/ice. There is a TeamSpeak client for linux (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads)!
Fair enough. Historically, the TS linux client was always more limited and harder to work with than its Windows counterpart, but it's been a few years since I've dealt with it at all.
Did you ever submit any feature requests or talk to the Mumble people about those integrations you use? Being an open-source project, it may not be too far-fetched to see them added in.
+1 for doing something genuinely pleasant for online gaming. This is something that would have been nice when I was into online gaming; hopefully it becomes more common for people to run their own vent/teamspeak servers not just for personal friends but based on attitude and level of commitment.
Just moved from Wordpress to Flask, got the Valve Dota2 replay-parser running on Linux and am preparing some cool stuff with that on the back end.
tl;dr: get on teamspeak (voice.dotanoobs.com) and play with people who aren't mean.