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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I never ever understood and still doesn't understand why people like Discord. It's not indexed, it's a constant background noise. It's absolutely not user-friendly. You can do better with IRC.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 99 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Discord is remarkable. It has seamless video streaming from your desktop or apps to any number of watchers, with multiple peopld being able to stream at once. Paired with voice chat, it's perfect for group gaming sessions, movie showings, desktop troubleshooting, video chat, etc. Besides some issues with input devices, it's always worked flawlessly for me. Plus, obviously, a persistent server for chat.

And the fact that it's fast, resource-light, and free are just the icing on the cake.

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some people are downvoting you but you're right. No other application is this all in one package. My only issues with input devices have been Windows' fault, too. I don't like Discord's closed ecosystem and data privacy concerns, but the feature set is unmatched, especially at the amount of polish they have and their price.

Side note, people please stop using it as an alternative to a proper forum.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for the point about the forums. I get why people use Discord: the things it is designed for it does reasonably well. The problem is people using it in ways it isn't made for, like forums or wikis. If your documentation, issue tracking, or patch notes are done via Discord, please stop for fuck's sake. There are much better options for this and you can even webhook them into Discord if you insist on it, but stop using Discord to replace forums.

[–] daellat@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Also also the voice codec is (or at least was) a noticable improvement over anything that was available for free.

[–] arken@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As far as I understand, the sole reason is "everyone else is using it". Which also seems to be the justification for using Messenger, WhatsApp, X, Instagram et al despite knowing better. It's hard to be outside of the walled garden if everybody else is inside.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know anyone who's used IRC in the last fifteen years at least.

At least back when I used IRC, it wasn't indexed either. It was just an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Chat.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I still use it occasionally. It's primarily used for smaller, more private communities, but Wikipedia also hosts official IRC rooms, too. I don't know of any other major companies that use IRC in an official capacity, though.

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

The alternatives at the time were steam voice chat or Skype, and both were awful to use.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Unless IRC has changed drastically in recent years, or maybe people are using proprietary extensions, it only supports a fraction of the features discord does.

[–] foo@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

The reason why gamers pivoted to discord is it was irc, team speak, and Skype in one platform that just worked

[–] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

The sheer amount of features and stability.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

IRC doesn't have sub-channels AFAIK. Also no image support, search, video-conferencing, etc.

[–] RalphFurley@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Comparing Discord to IRC is like comparing playing tennis to baking a cake. Just two entirely different things.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The usual answer is "people are stupid", which can't be true - people spend lots of effort to be less stupid, and when interacting with those people in unusual and unexpected ways you might find out they are much smarter than they seem.

The correct answer is that people don't know what they can do with computers. So they accept any bullshit.

[–] teleprintme@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stupid, no. Lazy, absolutely.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

More stimuli means more being done with the same lazy person.