I tried to make Discord work for a couple niche interests I had. Holy shit is it awful. I genuinely don’t understand why people think it’s okay. Maybe it’s kids who have never experienced forums?
It’s okay for very small groups of people in my experience. I use two servers with like ~10 active users in total. We use the server as a way to keep group text-like conversations more organized in different channels based on topic and the added benefit of voice calls and chat bots.
Large communities for it are awful, it becomes an even harder to read Twitch chat in active channels.
Discord is basically the modern equivalent of the old school IRC chat rooms. Though I think it’s biggest draw is the ease of doing voice chat for people who want that.
I get that. It’s a voice chat platform. Awesome. You can do text chats. Great. But when customer support is like “please reference the documentation on our Discord”, I’m like “fuck all the way off.”
I tried to make Discord work for a couple niche interests I had. Holy shit is it awful. I genuinely don’t understand why people think it’s okay. Maybe it’s kids who have never experienced forums?
It’s okay for very small groups of people in my experience. I use two servers with like ~10 active users in total. We use the server as a way to keep group text-like conversations more organized in different channels based on topic and the added benefit of voice calls and chat bots.
Large communities for it are awful, it becomes an even harder to read Twitch chat in active channels.
That’s a good point, maybe.
Discord is basically the modern equivalent of the old school IRC chat rooms. Though I think it’s biggest draw is the ease of doing voice chat for people who want that.
I get that. It’s a voice chat platform. Awesome. You can do text chats. Great. But when customer support is like “please reference the documentation on our Discord”, I’m like “fuck all the way off.”
I mean, I don’t really wanna to turn it back on you, but have you experienced chat rooms?
cause Discord isn’t a forum in terms of internet sites…