Why does every single online community nowadays use Discord?
Why does every single online community nowadays use Discord?
Xavier Torres
Camden Walker
It's easy to use, got a great amount of functionality, is cross platform, requires nothing but a signon, and is overall a great user experience.
The fact that it's a monolith of garbage hipster JS libraries and that everything they say, post, etc, is being recorded, analysed and sold to data collection companies to better advertise razer products to them doesn't bother them.
Robert Taylor
>that feel when tribe.net is gone never to return
Levi Powell
The issue isn't even the botnettiness to me
Sure, it's a horrible botnet but it works very well
The problem is that every single fucking community uses it, and it means they all blend together, there's no "communitt spirit" as everyone can easily come and go, and have like 90 servers in their list
Carter White
because it looks bettur than mumble and is freee. it's easier for normies because it looks nice. If mumble would look like discord it would be morea appealing. AND MUMBLE HAS SOOO MUCH SETTINGS that normies would get lost.
Such are times. Files and directories behind apps are black magic and even choosing directory during instalation is under "advanced"
James Robinson
The worst thing about those communities is that they're usually not very good either. For every good server there are about 48 garbage "hangout" discords that almost always have thirsty socially awkward weeaboos or girls with mental illnesses.
Josiah Cox
Cause they're retards
/thread
Zachary Jenkins
What is that
Sebastian Robinson
>/thread
>calls others retards
Gavin Perry
What?
Anthony Foster
Because you don't have to write and exchange information in realtime. All content is volatile and to be forgotten. Long gone are the days of php forums where everything was archived and all worked out solutions were available to members
Aaron King
where do I find servers full of girls with mental illnesses?
Christopher Smith
bcos they are not paranoid Jow Forumslets
Jace White
>girls with mental illnesses
Where?
Ryan Bailey
go away you fuckin braindead orbiters
Lincoln Hughes
>Join server that has anime avatar sporting people
>Look if any of them have for some reason spammed an invite to a server
>or
>They'll sometimes fucking DM it without context to you
I know that you're memeing but this is legitimately it.
Logan Adams
>/thread-ing your own post
Tyler Williams
The people who actually use the software like it and don't spend hours on Jow Forums every day shilling their DoA vapourware free alternatives.
Discord is easy to use, works in a browser tab and most importantly people actually use it.
Joshua Nguyen
>not /threading you're own post
/thread
Also, why you bots always catch on to me? I see plenty of posts on this board /threaded everyday
Camden Johnson
because funny
Nolan Peterson
Because it's easy to get people to use it, it runs on every platform known to man and the voice chat is better than Skype.
Chase Sullivan
>:T
Nathaniel Jenkins
I miss the good ol's mIRC days. Al the channels that I used to lurk in are now dead.
Michael Smith
>mIRC
Kevin Collins
Fuck mIRC, BitchX was awesome.
Joseph Green
Facebook and discord. I can't escape them
Wyatt James
I think it's because normies don't like IRC.
Cooper Butler
They're in blissful ignorance
Chase Flores
I hate how many channels people create / move too, it's literally the same group of people and I can't leave any as they use ALL of them... Fucking annoying.
Samuel Richardson
>forced auto updating that doesn't work half the time and makes you wait 30 seconds in between retrying for updates
>gay text like "We removed some bugs that shouldn't be there."
I miss when computer programs didn't treat me like five year olds.
Cooper Rivera
>>forced auto updating
Yeah, it "updates" when you refresh the page. It also happen with Jow Forums.
user, you're not using the sand-alone electron client, right?
Eli Hernandez
You don't want it. You think you do but you dont. Girls with mental problems will fuck you up. They will drain you of an enjoyment you have in your life. They can't help it. Get a healthy girl. Don't make the mistakes I made thinking you could fix somebody or that you could handle it. Very few people can.
Caleb Lopez
BIG BUCKS have been put into good UX and marketing, that's why.
Freetards don't seem get the significance of how close-to-flawless UX is necessary to make the product (piece of software) to sell (become widely adopted). For instance, Riot.im is an ugly, clunky turd in comparison.
Jackson Young
They're probably men who want to be girls, or think they want to be girls, so they'll claim to be girls over a mostly text based interface.
Cooper Ross
Why are people saying UX instead of UI now? Cramming x's into everything doesn't make it better or more interesting, especially now that everyone is doing it for no reason.
Matthew Adams
He's not using it incorrectly though.
You can have fantastic UI design and still have shit UX, UX is about how the software functions as a whole and UI design is how it looks aesthetically.
It's fashionable to use the term UX because a ton of good web designers do it already when designing web, now they have a name that sounds cool to meme around and add to their portfolio.
tl;dr
UI = how it looks in situ
UX = how it behaves overall
Nathan Cruz
>4 CPUs
Can I run an imageboard on this
Jose Martinez
share some stories brah
Lincoln Scott
I still think that's dumb, because I consider behavior to be part of the user interface. Maybe I'm the only one who does this, and maybe devs wanted separate terms for each so they didn't confuse themselves about what they were working on, but the way I see it, for an end user, there's no interface if it's not interactive. It's just an image, an appearance.
Whatever. I don't get to decide these things.
Hunter Smith
As someone who switched a semi-large community over from Discord to Rocket.Chat, I can relate - it comes with far too many useless features (Slack bridges, IRC bridges, livechat, video calling etc), while the core features are clunky and broken (for example, you can inject CSS with a simple file upload).
Another great way to see how they stack up is to compare Discord's REST API with Rocket.Chat's, because while Discord is an intuitive masterpiece, Rocket.Chat's is just a bunch of crappy POST requests.
It's as said here though, Discord attracted so much shitpost. It seems the majority of people just treat Discord as a shitpost platform, posting dumb memes and never participating.
Carter Morris
>because I consider behavior to be part of the user interface.
It's behaviour of the whole app/experience, not just behaviour of a certain UI element.
Choosing a checkbox when a radio button is needed is a bad UX decision, making the checkbox look shit is UI.
Leo Reed
Normies. My friends and contacts all use IRC or Matrix.
Jaxon Davis
To add, UX also makes the difference between:
- pressing Address book
- scrolling to the person you want to email
- clicking them
- clicking Compose New
- clicking "Email"
- clicking your own from address
- writing the email and sending it
or:
- pressing Compose
- typing in an email, it autocompletes
- typing in the rest of the message
- hitting Send
The latter may look like shit, but it'll still be far better UX. Most of the time, UX is far more important than UI. (Dumb designers, like 90% of them, don't understand this though)