11th May 2023, 11:25 AM
(11th May 2023, 6:22 AM)A Black Falcon Wrote: I never used to like chatrooms much, but I admit it, I use discord a lot... so yeah, while I do dislike people shutting down their forums for Discord, there are a few Discord servers I'm in a lot. Heh.
Weltall Wrote:I treat it as a chat room slash temporary way to make images accessible on multiple devices. The few other forums I still visit have an accompanying Discord server, which is probably the way to go.Yeah, we used to do chat in MSN Messenger or IRC. The modern version of that would certainly be Discord.
Just to be clear, for what it is it works great! I'm not going to say people shouldn't use discord as a chat room, because it does a great job at that. IRC I prefer on certain grounds (namely that it isn't owned by a single company and is an open standard), but Discord is far more functional and fairly easy to set up in comparison. (ICQ used to be a pretty good implementation of IRC, but now it's owned by some sketchy Chinese company so I trust that particular instance of it far less than I trust the likes of Skype or Discord.)
This whole diatribe was just a complaint about various companies failing to recognize the difference between what a forum specializes in and what a chat room does.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)