Discord is far better for discussion than IRC. You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare, easily link people to other rooms, tag, import bots etc. IRC kinda sucks compared to modern chat and they refuse to implement features that are considered basic.
> You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare, easily link people to other rooms, tag, import bots etc.
Some would see those as negatives.
> IRC kinda sucks compared to modern chat and they refuse to implement features that are considered basic.
Just because a protocol doesn't change purposes as time goes on that doesn't mean it "sucks". Who is this "they" you're talking about? Do you think IRC is a centralized service like Discord?
Set text size as preferred, underline links (or not), turn off display name styles (or not), ui density compact or default, chat message display to compact, space between message groups 0px, turn off all the animated emojis and gif animation stuff if you want.
In client use, there's a button to hide member list (or not).
You can definitely make discord look like a slightly less dense IRC client (mainly because of the channel picker) if you want. And if you want to go really crazy use it in a browser and userscript customize it or use betterdiscord.
I think a lot of the features like embeds and emoji reactions add a lot of value compared to IRC (which I think is also why the IRC world is trying to add those features).
Sort of, except if no one can ever discover a community it is always dying by default
Personally I'd love to find a decent online community these days, my social circle has shrunk considerably, but idk. It seems difficult to start fresh with new people nowadays
I got banned the other day from the Stellaris Discord server because someone accused me of hacking Roblox accounts. I’ve never played Roblox in my life. So that’s nice.
on the public servers yeah. but the ones im in with real people who know each other will be fine.
I think the problem is not keeping agents out of private real people spaces, but for people who dont have any pre-existing or 'real world' connections to these communities to find a way to prove they are a real person over the internet alone and get an invite
On a related note, I think this is going to be the biggest challenge to most folks when it comes in resisting using government ID online. it will be the apple offered for easy proof youre not a bot to normal circles.
Discord is terrible. Full of bots, creeps and ai slopped to the gills.
Some communities are better than others but the sheer volume of stinky trash is immense despite discord and the poor volunteer moderators efforts to prevent it. Most mods are neutral on it too.
There are chat communities that are still somewhat safe with zero user verification. But I will not mention them.
discord is a tool for hosting private chat servers. it's pretty neutral. the UI is not great for building a shared knowledge base, although people do that anyway
but yes the publicly accessible servers are going to face similar problems. the socially competent people tend not to run those servers, and have smaller private servers with people they know as they have no drive to try to create a space for strangers to gather.
i predominantly use it for real time chatting, its a big group text chat and a place to hop in a voice channel and shoot the shit while doing whatever we want on the computer a la ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak
but yes i also game and it gets a lot of use for that as well
i agree though that for collecting and organizing information longer term like forums do, it is not ideal
If all you value is sub-IRC level irreverent discussion, maybe.
Discord is far better for discussion than IRC. You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare, easily link people to other rooms, tag, import bots etc. IRC kinda sucks compared to modern chat and they refuse to implement features that are considered basic.
> You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare, easily link people to other rooms, tag, import bots etc.
Some would see those as negatives.
> IRC kinda sucks compared to modern chat and they refuse to implement features that are considered basic.
Just because a protocol doesn't change purposes as time goes on that doesn't mean it "sucks". Who is this "they" you're talking about? Do you think IRC is a centralized service like Discord?
This. Everything important has moved to discord. Which is sad because of how undiscoverable and unsearchable it is.
I'm more sad about how the UI of it all is just clunky. Even though it resembles ye olde IRC clients like mIRC, nowhere near readable for some reason.
Settings->Accessibility
Set text size as preferred, underline links (or not), turn off display name styles (or not), ui density compact or default, chat message display to compact, space between message groups 0px, turn off all the animated emojis and gif animation stuff if you want.
In client use, there's a button to hide member list (or not).
You can definitely make discord look like a slightly less dense IRC client (mainly because of the channel picker) if you want. And if you want to go really crazy use it in a browser and userscript customize it or use betterdiscord.
I think a lot of the features like embeds and emoji reactions add a lot of value compared to IRC (which I think is also why the IRC world is trying to add those features).
are those attributes now assets?
Pretty much. It's the survivability onion. You can't be destroyed if you can't be discovered.
Sort of, except if no one can ever discover a community it is always dying by default
Personally I'd love to find a decent online community these days, my social circle has shrunk considerably, but idk. It seems difficult to start fresh with new people nowadays
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I got banned the other day from the Stellaris Discord server because someone accused me of hacking Roblox accounts. I’ve never played Roblox in my life. So that’s nice.
This shit will come to Discord too.
on the public servers yeah. but the ones im in with real people who know each other will be fine.
I think the problem is not keeping agents out of private real people spaces, but for people who dont have any pre-existing or 'real world' connections to these communities to find a way to prove they are a real person over the internet alone and get an invite
On a related note, I think this is going to be the biggest challenge to most folks when it comes in resisting using government ID online. it will be the apple offered for easy proof youre not a bot to normal circles.
It's already there.
Discord is terrible. Full of bots, creeps and ai slopped to the gills.
Some communities are better than others but the sheer volume of stinky trash is immense despite discord and the poor volunteer moderators efforts to prevent it. Most mods are neutral on it too.
There are chat communities that are still somewhat safe with zero user verification. But I will not mention them.
discord is a tool for hosting private chat servers. it's pretty neutral. the UI is not great for building a shared knowledge base, although people do that anyway
but yes the publicly accessible servers are going to face similar problems. the socially competent people tend not to run those servers, and have smaller private servers with people they know as they have no drive to try to create a space for strangers to gather.
I really don't understand the folks fleeing to Discord. A mailing list does 99% of the same thing for most of the communities.
Sure, if you want to chat while gaming, that's the whole point of Discord. Ganbatte.
But, for everything else, Discord is such a horrible misfit that I don't understand why it's the default.
i predominantly use it for real time chatting, its a big group text chat and a place to hop in a voice channel and shoot the shit while doing whatever we want on the computer a la ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak
but yes i also game and it gets a lot of use for that as well
i agree though that for collecting and organizing information longer term like forums do, it is not ideal
You are booming out. I cant believe suggesting a mailing list
You gave an ad hominem attack with no substantive response. I can do that too: "Your account is less than a year old and is AI slop farming."
Mailing lists are old, boring, boomer tech. Ayup. They are. And they work.
However, Zoomer, if you must have Teh Sh1ny(tm), then explain to me why a Discourse isn't a better choice?
Discord is the anti-Pangloss; it is the "Worst of All Possible Worlds".
> I don't understand why it's the default.
Because it equally well supports real-time communication.
And it looks shiny.
And some people use it to e.g. watch a video together, or other social purposes.