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Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (20 children)

I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    What did people use before discord?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    For voice, TeamSpeak

    For text chat, IRC

    For forums, phpBB or any other forum software

    Discord replacing the third is the saddest. It completely isn't fit for purpose. Part of the reason you can't find anything on Google now is that forums died, and Discord is unsearchable.

    Discord just switches it's business model yearly to clone the one thing it hasn't killed yet. Started out to kill TS and IRC, then went on to kill the forum, then it tried to kill Steam/GOG but failed, now it's trying to kill Patreon.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Discord is pretty great for video/voice chat - the things it tries to do outside of that can be frustrating.

    It's miles ahead of having to use Ventrillo, Teamspeak, Skype like we had to in the past.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Also, weirdly, a lot of people seem to use Discord for things used to be (and I would say should) be on a forum (or community, magazine, etc.)

    Trying to follow the thread of a discussion about some obscure point you're interested in is much easier when it's in a thread, instead of an undifferentiated chat log with a bunch of unrelated cross-talk.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    because skype was worse

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I mean I guess? Aside from the calling it's fine imo. UI was also easier for me to use

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Discord provides free hosting.

    Everyone talking about alternatives like Revolt or Mumble does not realize how big of a deal that actually is.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Exactly, I can go to discord and create a new server with a few clicks. Even as a somewhat tech savvy person I am not that confident about setting up a server, securing it properly, making it scalable for large amount of users, handling data storage and backups and all that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah I've always hated the idea of using Discord as a forum space. The only thing it's been useful to me for has been playing video games with friends and coordinating shit as a group. I've tried joining some of the channels related to my hobbies and it's just a massive pain in the ass to use in that capacity.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Versus Slack, it was an easier sign-up process for ad hoc communities. You could just have people sign up instead of going through an approval process. (Slack's approval process could be automated with third-party tools, but it was a hack. Slack was meant to be a specific group of known people.)

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