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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A lot of people don't seem to realize that Discord has a variety of features, and each feature can be more or less useful for different types of communities. There's almost no platform that has all of them so you have to zoom out and look at more of the general purpose. The Discord "servers" I've used NEVER used anything but text chat.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I understand that but even the text chat is a different experience than what Discourse offers. Even people who only used Discord for text chat and want a replacement for that would be better on IRC.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s not the text chat they’re referring to. An annoying amount of open so it be projects use Discord as a replacement for forums specifically.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm aware but I don't think this was the issue Ulrich was speaking of. If they were, I don't think it was well conveyed.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, clearly everyone loves IRC, that's why no one uses Discord /s

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I honestly think the vast majority of people on Discord don't know what IRC is, and therefore don't have an opinion of it. However, I didn't mean to suggest IRC as the best alternative anyway.

[–] Angelfangs@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't used IRC since I had to "accquire" fan sub anime in the 00's.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

Okay so they know what Discord is, but they don't know what IRC is, despite it being 20 years older. What does that tell you?

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm currently logged in to IRC and haven't opened discord in weeks.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

LOL I can't wait to hear what you think that means.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

IRC isn't really a replacement either. Discord supports rich multimedia embedding and the servers preserve history (by default anyway).