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I have noticed it’s frequently the only outlet for communication with developers and communities, which I find worryingly closed off and hostile to users.
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Do you really think there was 'no way to communicate' for projects before discord ?
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It was a little bit of everything, really. Discord exploded in popularity because: 1. Its free functionality was more generous than many comparable services. Nobody wants to pay for a Mumble server. 2. Its UI and audio quality and noise cancellation settings put much of the competition to shame. 3. Only needing one account for every Discord server in existance gave it the same kind of appeal that let Reddit/Facebook…
Speaking from being very early on the train for Discord, it also had an extremely solid userbase right from the start because much of the early pre-marketing pull into it was for raid groups in the then-new Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. People really needed a chat client to coordinate a big number of players and it was totally free, functional, and new on the scene. It spread a ton in the community and the peopl…
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As opposed to IRC? Forums? hell - even an email list... All things that are a lot easier to search then Discord, have much lighter clients, and can be done free. Do you really think there was 'no way to communicate' for projects before discord ?
Having more than one central place to communicate is 'hostile'.
Why even build an app? This app should've been a website. Better pester browser developers to implement "Add to desktop" feature.
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As opposed to IRC? Forums? hell - even an email list... All things that are a lot easier to search then Discord, have much lighter clients, and can be done free. Do you really think there was 'no way to communicate' for projects before discord ?
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I would define ads as promoting other businesses' products, as you would see on YouTube etc. Upselling is basically just unlocking additional features. If you object to that, then you're objecting to the freemium model, not to "ads".
> I would define ads as promoting other businesses' products, as you would see on YouTube etc. They do that, they call them "quests". Companies pay them to promote their product/service and users get rewards for doing a task (like playing a game, watching a video, etc.) https://discord.com/ads/quests The article that parent linked even says it.
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Pushing what used to occur on web forums into Discord chats has been a net loss for the Internet.
Gitter exists, and they use Element. As well as many other open source alternatives (including IRC, but I can understand the apprehension with nicserv and all that ceremony).
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My dream is to be invited into a mildly popular server (more than 15 users), than doesn't have 50 channels, 8 separate roles and T&C to agree to. It hasn't happened yet. An entire generation of bureaucrats and bean counters is learning the ropes on Discord.
This shows Discord is a genuine successor to Web 1.0 forums. :-) Unnecessary channels are unnecessary subforums. User roles are user ranks ( https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.1/kb/article/everyth... ), indicating both software permissions and social status. T&C—well, forum engines like phpBB, MyBB, and SMF come with a standard user agreement they show before registration. There is more concern with it now becau…
And it was up to them to provide plenty onboarding to new users, so they're not overwhelmed by the hundreds of subcategories, and thousands of threads in each.
We used to be part of no more than a handful of forum communities. Maybe that changed.
Reminder that discord is an app for kids. Is your open source code and volunteer run project going to keep kids safe? Is it an advantage that the comms protocols are open and everyone can build bots? Or a disadvantage for this usecase? Also, how is it an alternative for Discord if it's in a whole different jurisdiction?