Discord?

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Who cares, just stop posting ugly as fuck skanks.

>>60013318
It's marketed towards gamers, and it's actually a pretty damn well-made application.

Any retard will buy any old piece of shit with the word 'gamer' in it.

Because gamers are normie scum now and irc is hard

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>>60013467
>irc is hard
>IMFUCKINGPLYINGLOL!
HAHAHAHAHAHA XD

>>60013318
Because people, especially gaymurs, needed an alternative to Skype because Skype sucks ass and Discord is the best alternative thus far

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>>60013467
>irc is hard

Its pretty good at just werking
Its backed by chinese
Normies dont concern themselves with question like who pays for hosting this shit

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>>60013318
good voip, good chat, can share porn and memes

>>60013318
I don't understand this at all
why are they using discord when IRC already exists?

>>60015072
>IRC
I'm 25 and even I feel like I'm too young to have been in on irc

>>60013318
Its like teamspeak but better text chat

>>60013318
Because all the alternatives are shit. Seriously that's the reason.

You know how they say when you make a better version of something people will use it? Discord is the poster child for that effect.

>>60013467
given how complete shit IRC is, ya it kind of is hard.

>>60013467

>Having to run your own bouncer for multiple devices on one account

Yeah nah.

>>60015156
All the free alternatives*

It's popular though because most people aren't willing to make even a minimum amount of investment for a basic ts or vent server.

>>60015180
>ts or vent
Are both fucking shit.

>>60015199
what's wrong with ts

>>60015179
just run tmux on something that's always on, like your mail server

>Works across multiple platforms, also in browser
>Easy to invite people
>Easy to setup, use, and understand
>Made for 24/7 hangouts rather than intrusive calling, and people can choose the level of communication they want to participate in

Being ridiculously easy to try is what made it popular, it was a mission convincing people to fucking click an invite link that did all the work for them, let alone convince them to download and setup something like TS or Vent.

discord is a piece of shit marketed towards people with anti-social skills, memetards, animefags, pedos, attention seeking girls, thirsty ugly guys, etc.

if you're going to use discord, make your own server with your close friends that you've known for years, DO NOT join a public server or any server for that matter that has strangers in it thinking you're going to "meet kewl people and be friends xD" because you're not, you're just going to get into e-drama, spread e-gossip, e-fight and spiral into a shitstorm

guys go on discord to play games and they find out that girls on there and it doesn't become about gaming any more it just turns into which fag can impress the girl so she can send them nudes, little do they know is that the girl suffers from depression, anxiety, low self esteem and is ugly as fuck in reality

i'm in my late 20s so i have a different view on it, if you're under the age of 21 and don't give a fuck then by all means go crazy on discord, thanks for reading my tumblr blog i hope it helped.

>>60015216
UI is garbage, voice has probably improved since i used it, but having to run your own server and then pay for more slots is stupid.

Why you'd license something that's no better than mumble is beyond me.

>>60015233
Doing this on a RPI. It's great for these kind of use cases and it doesn't use more power then a phone.

>>60015270

None of that is discords fault. You joined shit servers and got shit. What do you expect?

>>60013318
>Even normies are well versed in it.

it's targeted to normies you fuck, there's even lol memes in the startup messages

>>60015233
or i can use a nonshit protocol that supports basic fucking features like carbon copy messages and might not completely shit itself if a core server goes down splitting the network in half.

IRC is literally fucking legacy trash, it can't even have reduntant edges in it's connection graphs.

>>60015270
calm the fuck down nigger

>>60015302

public servers are all shit and yes it is some what discords fault, that's the audience who they market too, cancerous memetards

>>60015365

>public servers
You join nothing you don't go out of your way to join.
You gonna blame facebook for your shitty friends too?

>chat works well enough
>voice chat works better than other no-cost alternatives
>decent UI although there are some real oddities in the lack of customization of the normal clients, but it looks ok and works decently
>costs 0 to use

It kinda combines IRC and voice chat for the normie/games crowd, for no money.

I do wish they'd at least let us run a FOSS client, but of course the real concern should be that they collect all the logs and shit. I really hate using it to replace IRC in some communities: I don't want to chat freely somewhere where everything is logged like that. IRC at least has the potential for very strong privacy, and even in its default form, it is better.

>>60015072
Because Discord is more than just text chatting?

>>60015388

which is why i don't use public discord servers anymore, i'm just warning people about the cancer that is public servers because majority of people are going to be in public discord servers

me and 3 of my friends who i've known for 10+ years chill in our own comfy server

>>60015404

>but of course the real concern should be that they collect all the logs and shit

https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/17094256-implement-whispersystems-encryption-for-voice-and

discord isn't all for privacy as much as they make themselves out to be, their investor is tencent for fuck sakes

>IRC is text only and archaic (not a bad thing, though)
>Skype sucks ass and munches through resources like an old whore
>Teamspeak is extremely barebones for anything not voice chat
>Suddenly a new app does everything from personal IM to small groups to huge communities, in a fairly competent way and the simplicity of good old MSN messenger plus being multiplatform and working in a browser.

It's not hard to see why.

Its more data collection. Proven by their refusal to implement end 2 end encryption. They're going to sell data. Cucks use it BC its easy to meme on and make a server. They don't know how to use Mumble and forums / Irc or xmpp

>>60015638
Yup, however...

In my personal experience: it is sadly a really great chat for relatively big communities (think 100-1000 members). So the one's I'm in are unlikely to abandon it.

Why? Because of the server/channel system.

On IRC channels end up either shitty or inactive often, 'cause well, people in a community just won't make 10 channels for different topics and actually use them all. On IRC, there isn't really space for simultaneous discussions of slightly different topics. I'm comparing this to IRC because my experience is that people who previously used IRC now use Discord; I'm not a gamer so I don't have much to say about mumble etc.

On Discord, you can have a server dedicated to community X, and then divide it into a general channel and a bunch of more precisely defined channels (and actually moderate them so that they'll stay on topic, allowing for "containment" of topics that would otherwise take up too much space). This allows for a relatively large community to actually function without going to shit (either due to lack of general, social chatter or due to that social chatter taking up all the space, allowing for no serious discussion dedicated to topics)

It kinda takes the greatest part of forums and chans - ability to have different areas for different discussions - and combines it with a real-time chat.

>>60013318
NSA trying to replace glorious IRC