Comment by solarkraft
3 years ago
I'm glad we agree that IRC isn't any better but even worse.
As much as I dislike Discord (bad search, terrible notification system) there's also no open platform that can really compete with Discord, they all crumble when it comes to voice chats.
I'll admit that a thing I like about private communities is that they feel more comfortable - that not every single user of the internet will be able to see it.
The whole archival thing (like on IRC) can be done with bots. You could forward a message, add an emoji or ping the bot to archive a message.
Indeed, not every conversation has to be on the internet, accessible to everyone.
I thought hackers would care about privacy after all.
Discord is still an unparallelled product if you use it correctly.
If you want open and long conversations then use forum (real forum, not hn)