How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
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#2Discord can be special, but at least for me, I find it hard to feel like a part of a community. Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe I'm nostalgically remembering how awesome the internet was back in the day. But, I find it extremely hard to make friends online and be a part of a community now. I tried searching out topics I'm interested in but I rarely engage with it. I find this to be true for 95% of the users.
Somewhere along the line, the switch from "these are people" to "these are random strangers on the internet" took place.
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#3Discord can be something special once they increase the limit of only 200 servers you can connect to.
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#4"invented the future of the internet" If you change the skin I could barely tell the difference with Slack. This is just showing my ignorance but I don't get what's special about any of these chatroom tools, as in they all seem interchangeable.
Re: How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
#5Discord can be special, but at least for me, I find it hard to feel like a part of a community. Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe I'm nostalgically remembering how awesome the internet was back in the day. But, I find it extremely hard to make friends online and be a part of a community now. I tried searching out topics I'm interested in but I rarely engage with it. I find this to be true for 95% of the users. Some…
Same. I'm sure Discord is special to people today in the same way that AIM, IRC and phpBB forums were special to me growing up.
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#6Discord can be special, but at least for me, I find it hard to feel like a part of a community. Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe I'm nostalgically remembering how awesome the internet was back in the day. But, I find it extremely hard to make friends online and be a part of a community now. I tried searching out topics I'm interested in but I rarely engage with it. I find this to be true for 95% of the users. Some…
Same. I'm sure Discord is special to people today in the same way that AIM, IRC and phpBB forums were special to me growing up.
Yes and no. The massive use of the internet makes communities very different now than they were 15-20 years ago.
I don't see the same level of fascination with Discord that we had back in the day with IRC. Maybe because we're used to it now and having a chat with thousands of people.
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#7"invented the future of the internet" If you change the skin I could barely tell the difference with Slack. This is just showing my ignorance but I don't get what's special about any of these chatroom tools, as in they all seem interchangeable.
It’s just a clickbait headline, don’t read into it too much.
Financial incentives for these media companies necessitates the need to make outlandish clickbait claims to drive eyeballs.
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#8Discord can be special, but at least for me, I find it hard to feel like a part of a community. Maybe it's because I'm older, maybe I'm nostalgically remembering how awesome the internet was back in the day. But, I find it extremely hard to make friends online and be a part of a community now. I tried searching out topics I'm interested in but I rarely engage with it. I find this to be true for 95% of the users. Some…
I grew up with IRC (and still idle on various channels, and Discord is definitely the closest anything has come to replacing that community feeling from the 90s and early 2000s.
They're all very niche servers - I'd say about 10 daily active users - which definitely helps cultivate that same intimacy (for want of a better word).
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#9My company chat is completely on Discord. It is definitely an upgrade from Slack.
Re: How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
#10"invented the future of the internet" If you change the skin I could barely tell the difference with Slack. This is just showing my ignorance but I don't get what's special about any of these chatroom tools, as in they all seem interchangeable.
It’s just a clickbait headline, don’t read into it too much. Financial incentives for these media companies necessitates the need to make outlandish clickbait claims to drive eyeballs.
I also clicked assuming I had missed something about Discord.
It is bad for the brand of the publication to do this. I would have been interested in just a good overview of the company.
I did not know the founders did openfeint. I remember that product and considered it for an iOS app I was working on at the time.
What I’m not sure about is how to penalize publications for essentially false advertising in editorialized headlines. They want attention to show ads, they have to go about garnering it ethically.