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Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by kiba »

southerntofu wrote: post #202
lotsofpulp wrote: post #172

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What is broken about it? Did anyone tell the discord creators to involve other shareholders?

Not specific to discord, but what's broken is that work is organized to maximize personal profit of shareholders (and the remuneration and other privileges of managers), not to benefit users/society. I'm not against people profiting from their activity, in the broad sense of the word (though i'm personally opposed to money as a tool/concept). But profit-driven social organization has lead to many avoidable disasters:…

Shareholder who? Why would I, a shareholder, want corporations to pursue business strategies that leads to avoidable disaster and ultimately loss of profit?

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by emptyfile »

hhsbz wrote: post #159
southerntofu wrote: post #155

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Do you have a few examples, for someone who's never used Discord?

https://i.imgur.com/dy13lcm.png The entire app was full of crap like this - it's not funny or quirky, it's practically baby talk.

What the hell lol.

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Post by BeefWellington »

MisterTea wrote: post #317

Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. Install, pick a name and go. I don't even remember creating an account, just typing in a nick name. Even on Void Linux Musl you can install it via flatpack, scan the qr code and you're logged in with all your servers and channels already there. You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast. My great gripe? No 3rd party clients. It's also massively bloated for my need o…

> You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast.

You can't today, there's no reason you eventually couldn't.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by MatthewMob »

kwanbix wrote: post #330
sadness3 wrote: post #93

I have a bad feeling about this. Discord essentially does one thing really well. I don't want to see it go down the way of so many chat platforms trying to be everything and becoming a bloated mess. Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt. It makes me despair of business models which re…

Honest question here. What is so good about discord? It reminds me more if IRC than a modern chat app. I really don't get it. Maybe I am missing something?

Voice, video and text chat with unlimited bandwidth, streaming resolution and storage space all for free, and all much, _much_ easier to use for the average user than any other voice and video communication client ever made.

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Post by 63 »

MisterTea wrote: post #317

Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. Install, pick a name and go. I don't even remember creating an account, just typing in a nick name. Even on Void Linux Musl you can install it via flatpack, scan the qr code and you're logged in with all your servers and channels already there. You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast. My great gripe? No 3rd party clients. It's also massively bloated for my need o…

Technically there are third party clients, they just break tos and can get you banned if you're not careful. Ripcord has a lot of cool features, I just wish I could risk using it.

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Post by yarky »

wellthisisgreat wrote: post #100
yarky wrote: post #44

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OT but seriously, name one good Microsoft product other than paint.

Excel, Vscode

I agree! Excel is fun to play with as long as you use it on windows, I forgot. VScode I only used in college, but it seems useful. I'll update my list, paint and excel I consider good products indeed.

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Post by yarky »

Wingy wrote: post #55
yarky wrote: post #44

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OT but seriously, name one good Microsoft product other than paint.

Windows Terminal is pretty good. VSCode is heavier than necessary but easy for everyone to use. Mostly their recent developer tools are good.

I find it useful to avoid explaining others how to set up their computer, which is indeed extremely useful ;)

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by yarky »

rattray wrote: post #60
yarky wrote: post #44

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OT but seriously, name one good Microsoft product other than paint.

VS Code, TypeScript, C#, F#, GitHub but it doesn't count... I've heard good things about OneNote, I guess.

Yeah GitHub/TypeScript kinda don't count. I have an ignorant question though : do people use c# or f# in a non-windows system, by choice ? Otherwise, wouldn't that be a self fulfilling need ?

Edit: typo

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by KptMarchewa »

globular-toast wrote: post #297
jeltz wrote: post #257

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No, IRC does one thing and does it poorly. I love IRC for the great communities it has spawned but there are many issues with IRC including how you must have an IRC bouncer.

It's always worked for me. I've never used a bouncer. Maybe the "one thing" is not what you think it is. Think of it like a real room. When you're in the room you hear what's going on. When you're not, you don't.

Turns out most people don't like that idea, and appreciate chat history.
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