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Sharlin • yesterday at 1:35 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Discord is incredibly noisy and information-dense and while maybe not for "normies", it’s definitely not just IT guys using it. Though I wonder how many people actually like to use it.


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Aozora7 • yesterday at 3:29 PM

Discord is by far my favorite communication platform across anything I used in my entire life, nothing else comes even close in terms of feature set. It also helps that almost everyone I like is there. I'm forced to have whatsapp and telegram to communicate with the general population and I wouldn't use them if I didn't have to.

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Arubis • yesterday at 2:25 PM

In Discord’s…defense? Description? At least for understanding—it’s gamer chat. And it’s been that from the beginning. That’s the design and the intent, and while it seems Discord-the-company is trying to adapt Discord-the-product for the increase in popularity for other uses, its roots are showing. Navigating it feels similar to navigating the menu system of a AAA game.

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saghm • yesterday at 4:46 PM

It's certainly dense with something. If it's information, it's not information I want though. I have no desire to know anything about their various Nitro sales or have a live feed to what my friends are playing or listening to. People I want to talk to are there, so I go there to talk to them. Anything outside of that just makes it noisy, like you said.

quietsegfault • yesterday at 2:28 PM

I can’t get into Discord. It’s just so messy and disorganized and too much information flying at my face.

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internet101010 • yesterday at 3:17 PM

Discord is incredibly popular among younger people in general now. It escaped tech people containment years ago.