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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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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…

Nowadays you have to create an account with you e-mail for using Discord.

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

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You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.

Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person.

It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.

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

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Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.

The person you are responding to did not denigrated anything.

He responded to claim that if someone does not like those messages, then he "take himself too seriously". The response simple explained that author find those jokes unfunny.

As you said, humor varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. That implies that not liking some kind of humor is completely valid sentiment.

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

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They should just have a separate platform mode. Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.

Bizcord

And also have a cryptocurrency called Discoin because are you even a business without your own crypto in 2021?

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

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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

Yes, version 5 of the .NET platform (incl C# and F#) runs on Linux and MacOS, and people choose those languages over other languages because of their independent benefits (ie; C# has advantages over Java, and F# has advantages over Haskell/OCaml/etc).

I have not used them myself.

Bit of an aside, but TypeScript was invented at MSFT, and they still maintain it – why would it not count? (Other than not being a consumer product).

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

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You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.

Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

Humour is subjective, and whether you found them funny or not didn't really matter. They were just stupid little jokes for you to read while Discord is doing something.

Perfectly harmless, and adds a bit of charm to the app.

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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…

That’s why I use basecamp - they’re explicit and clear about staying small and profitable enough, with zero ambition for infinite growth.

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

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That sounds horrible. We should focus on making good products that last a long time. What is the point of making something new and almost identical every 5 years?

Yeah exactly! Maybe that's why users should focus on protocols and not on Platforms. Like Matrix.org

How long did it take to upgrade from IPV4 to IPV6? IPV6 is a massively popular protocol in which virtually every technical person admitted we will need to move off of IPV4. IPV6 is 25 years old and we’re still not done with the migration.

Protocols have a massive problem with updating their feature sets and security features.

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