Honestly I would rather just use Matrix.
What they need now is just better clients, element needs to improve.
Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Discussion that happens on public forums usually sounds like everyone's at a job interview getting scrutinized by a potential employer. Which, in fairness, they effectively are. Maybe if you use forums with a real name policy? I wouldn't give prospective employers all my nicknames :)
> I wouldn't give prospective employers all my nicknames :) I wouldn't give them any, to be honest. And it weirds me out to see people posting with their real names, be it youtube comments or on niche forums. That anonymity is a deeply held thing to me, I guess.
Some employers like to see their employees participating in online forums around their particular field of expertise. Mine also, though I've declined to do so for now.
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#203Guilded had this a long time ago: https://support.guilded.gg/hc/en-us/articles/360040216933-Fo... No one used them for the same reason Discord killed forums: realtime chat is better for most things people used forums for.
huh, is guilded basically just an exact replica of discord?
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#204Honestly I would rather just use Matrix. What they need now is just better clients, element needs to improve.
We’re doing our best… https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen...
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord has a low barrier to entry and continued use. With a single account, I can join a dozen communities and easily stay up to date with them, and get an instant notification on my phone or desktop when someone answers a question I asked in any of them. To do the same with a dozen phpbb communities, I need to create a dozen accounts and track each site individually.
> easily stay up to date with them How do you stay up to date when there are thousands and thousands of messages generated per day or even per hour?
You can control what triggers a notification on a per-server and even per-channel basis. For most big servers, I have everything set to mute except for when people @ me directly or respond to one of my messages.
Re: Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
#206Guilded had this a long time ago: https://support.guilded.gg/hc/en-us/articles/360040216933-Fo... No one used them for the same reason Discord killed forums: realtime chat is better for most things people used forums for.
huh, is guilded basically just an exact replica of discord?
Early forum software copied features back and forth and often looked very similar. Modern PHPBB doesn't look much different from the original perl UBB, for example. Keeping the tradition alive.
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#207Great, Discord has reinvented forums in a walled garden with a gamified payment model.
There's no paywall at all. What are you talking about?
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#209I wonder if Discord will ever catch on in the corporate world. I use Slack for work and Discord for recreation. Is it just me, or does Discord just seem vastly superior to Slack? Slack is so tedious to navigate by comparison, especially when you have many channels with separate PMs in them. Discord just continues to get better in the right ways, but Slack just feels bloated with features that it takes too much effort…
The value of Slack is its integrations with dozens of business apps like Jira. They don't focus much on end user UX because that's not the point of it - they deliver straight business value. It wasn't until recently Discord bots were capable of much other than parsing chat messages and reactions for input, let alone the full menus google calendar puts into Slack. I'd love a Discord frontend to slack (see https://cancel.fm/ripcord for a serious attempt at one) but Slack itself is not going away anytime soon.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh, is guilded basically just an exact replica of discord?
Early forum software copied features back and forth and often looked very similar. Modern PHPBB doesn't look much different from the original perl UBB, for example. Keeping the tradition alive.
i'm pretty impressed by how close it is, at least from the screenshots. if you swapped out the logos for discord logos, there's no way I'd notice or even be able to tell you what's different if you told me