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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

[-] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

pretty sure discord is cause of video/audio more - it replaced ventrilo

[-] tamal3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Screen sharing is a big deal for games.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

when discord and slack took off, IRC community shrank drastically. itb was and is a real shame

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

What's stopping us from resurrection of the old ways again?

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

technical barriers for the user and a lack of animated emoji stickers

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Every time I see you, your username reminds me of EverQuest.

I think I've brought it up before.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

no, why is it EverQuest I don't know anything about video game

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

In EverQuest there was a character named Canloe Nusback who would accept endless amounts of Crushbone resources in a repeatable quest and so who was commonly used for grinding.

It was popular to call him "Camel Nutsack." Once, I told someone in OOC chat that he was "fondly" referred to as such and someone else said that they'd never talked about a nutsack fondly. The exchange stuck with me, apparently for two and a half decades. Thus, your username reminds me of that conversation and, subsequently, the character and game.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I'm happy to hear that this is your affiliation with nutsacks

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