alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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AuthAuth • today at 2:54 AM
You are booming out. I cant believe suggesting a mailing list
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zahlman • yesterday at 9:53 PM
> 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.
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