The internet's favorite chat app is turning servers into storefronts.
    • sznio@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • livejamie@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 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.

        • sznio@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          Discord voice quality is significantly worse than TS3, and it has way less features actually related to voice chatting.

          As for Vent and especially Skype, it’s an improvement.

    • ThatLinuxUser@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 years ago

      Teamspeak, Skype. Funny enough up until redesigning a year to two years ago they advertised themselves as being the replacement to these.

    • Bloodbeech Forest@mander.xyz
      4·
      2 years ago

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

      • Malgas@beehaw.org
        7·
        2 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.