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How Discord Went Mainstream

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Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by ihuman »

jelv wrote: post #43

Discord business model seems te be to sell games. Not sure if it's going to be a good fit for non-gamers in the future. https://riot.im/ powered by Matrix also seems a good alternative. It's getting more stable every day.

Originally they only made money by selling a service called Discord Nitro. It allows you to upload larger files/share your screen in a higher resolution, use servers' emojis in any other server, use an animated avatar, and further customize your username. Since they added the store, they've also started giving games to Nitro members, doubled the price of Nitro, and offered an option without the free games at the original price.

https://discordapp.com/nitro

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by ihuman »

2038AD wrote: post #21
SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

I'm not a fan of Discord but I think you're mistaken. Right click on the channel icon and go to 'Notification Settings' rather than clicking on 'Server Mute'. From there you can choose whether a mention (inc./ex. @everyone/@here) counts and whether mobile notifications are enabled. As for the client you may want to try Ripcord[0]. It uses less memory though I'm not sure you can mute people the same way. While I don't…

Isn't using a 3rd party client like that against the ToS and could get you banned?

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by ihuman »

hedgew wrote: post #10
panic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are a few things that make Discord nicer than IRC for ordinary (non-voice) chat: 1. You can start a new server right in the client by clicking a button. 2. Logs are saved server-side and synced across all your clients (phone, PC, etc). 3. You can upload images and videos to be hosted by Discord's servers. Media and links appear inline in the chat log. 4. No strange rituals involving NickServ or ChanServ. 5. Mobi…

6. You don't need to publicize your IP address by default.

Does discord even have the option to make you IP address public? I thought you only have the option of private.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by ihuman »

Biganon wrote: post #34

My group of friends migrated from Messenger to Discord a few days ago, we are very pleased. Here's a list of what I love the most: * When a friend arrived in the evening and the others had been talking about random things all day long, the friend was often submerged by the amount of fluff to read. Discord solves this in two ways: 1) the different channels allow us to keep discussions tidy, we have a channel for rando…

> No attachments larger than 8 MB

The limit goes up to 50MB if you pay for nitro or nitro classic

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by holler »

jelv wrote: post #43

Discord business model seems te be to sell games. Not sure if it's going to be a good fit for non-gamers in the future. https://riot.im/ powered by Matrix also seems a good alternative. It's getting more stable every day.

check out https://sqwok.im, it's a new real-time discussion site not targeted at gamers, in beta

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by opan »

jelv wrote: post #43

Discord business model seems te be to sell games. Not sure if it's going to be a good fit for non-gamers in the future. https://riot.im/ powered by Matrix also seems a good alternative. It's getting more stable every day.

Matrix is really nice. I hope that some of the TUI clients improve a bit, though. I absolutely loved the weechat plugin made in lua, but it'd often take several tries to connect. One day I couldn't connect at all, and there hasn't been github activity lately. It was the only client I found that let me actually reorder rooms and people manually. I really hate the constantly changing order that I can't seem to configure in Riot. Gomuks lacks a lot of good keybinds and stuff that weechat did right by default for being weechat. The emacs package matrix-client.el is alright but tricky to get going due to using quelpa, which none of my other stuff uses. I also have only used it graphically in emacs, so not sure how it is in non-graphical emacs. These little disappointments in the clients make me still prefer irc for a lot of things, but easily sharing images and such on matrix is pretty nice.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by BoorishBears »

swiley wrote: post #33
SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

Why is it everyone outside of programmers (and even then) always picks chat services with the worst client software available? IRC had issues but at least the clients were decent.

Discord has a wonderful client in my experience.

Sure people will rush to say the IRC clients of old opened in .02 nanoseconds after you thought about checking your channels, but that's not useful compared to the fact Discord out of the box has more functionality than an IRC client could ever hope to provide, and looks pleasing to the eye while doing that.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by LinuxBender »

swiley wrote: post #33
SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

Why is it everyone outside of programmers (and even then) always picks chat services with the worst client software available? IRC had issues but at least the clients were decent.

You can still put a web client with persistent chat history in front of IRC. TheLounge is one example [1] [2] and Convos is another. [3] [4]

[1] - https://thelounge.chat/

[2] - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

[3] - https://convos.by/

[4] - https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by gambler »

gaspoweredcat wrote: post #2

maybe im just getting old but i cant really understand the runaway success of discord, it seems awfully similar to IRC to me

That's exactly why it's successful. It has the playful tone of the old IRC, ICQ, and 90s web chats that's totally missing from most modern platforms. Probably the most "social" of all communication offerings I've seen and used recently. It's designed to talk to people you don't necessarily know, as opposed to just leeching off your existing social connections from the real world.

I really hope they don't end up selling out to Microsoft/Google/Facebook or use their platform to do some form of political activism.

On the other hand, Discord seems like a good match for small businesses. Would be interested in seeing something offered on that end.

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