Discord

“Discord has maintained separation between communities and has minimal discoverability features so users stick to the servers they participate which builds a sense of community.”

“The UI has lots of issues everywhere and constantly, but unfortunately it's by far the best if you look at the competition.”

“It combines everything useful that was offered by older platforms like IRC, Skype and TeamSpeak, and provides that with a modern UI.”

“Discord is objectively one of the worst things to happen to sovereign and privacy preserving communication on the internet in a long time.”

“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.”

“There is so little advertising on discord that I find it hilarious you are so upset about a few notifications here and there about nitro”

“I like it because I can use discord on even a pretty untrusted computer without providing it any credentials or access to my passkey”

“For better or worse we are on Discord. A mixture of a throwback to IRC days combined with a platform that speaks "Internet" better than most places”

“There are plenty of groups in Discord where you can have conversations with people of different backgrounds and personalities”

“We're being asked to either scan our faces or provide our government IDs, to access basic online interactivity we already have, on the likes of Discord and Playstation Network”

“Discord solves presence, Reddit solves discovery, and forums solve memory/structure, but none of them combines all three very well.”

“Discord is far better for discussion than IRC. You can be much more expressive on discord, instantly jump into a call and screenshare”

“their constant treadmill of paid cosmetics, for lack of a better term, that no one was asking for and at least monthly Nitro beg screen”

“they made an objectively superior product that was completely free to users, funded by investor money without any plans for immediate profitability”

“The idea that Discord moderators (even worse than Reddit mods) could have access to verified identities from Palantir related databases sounds so atrocious.”

“Discord captured the market because it was completely free and had the audio mechanisms in place to make people with shitty mics and background noise tolerable”

“apps like VS Code, Discord, Slack, etc show that with enough effort a team can use those tools to deliver something with relatively much better performance”

“Discord would like to imply that most users are in the automatically verified bucket and only like porn is flagged nsfw, but it's entirely in their control to tighten these screws”

“They should realize charging people $100/year per person for Nitro and $500/year for server boosts means that they don't want to be advertised to and have their data stolen.”

“charging people $100/year per person for Nitro”

“If your largest investor is known for mining data for fascist regimes and you are in the business of verifying data authentication then it not guilt by association it is the smoking gun and best to avoid”

“Discord used to be better, but then they got popular, got incredibly picked up and now are probably being controlled by some very shady people.”

“I'd prefer having openly searchable forums and chat archives and to use IRC but I can't say the experience is that onerous.”

“Discord's core offering is not that, it's an orchestration of chat, video-chat, forums, notifications. It's a swiss-army knife.”

“The original thing that got gamers to switch to discord, it was their original and probably still is their primary target market, was a single login to a huge universe of voice chat rooms.”

“If they tell you they are not selling your data, its because they have a license agreement with another company which is selling your data.”

“a few companies like Discord, Gmail, and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people”

“for private servers it's good. We used it for backup ops when our internal chat server went down. The feature set is very good”

“Software starts getting features which users don't want or need, side effects of the company size and their Q4 roadmap to 'optimize' revenue|engagement|profits|growth”

“It asks me to verify then logs me in and then 20 minutes later I'm logged out again with a message I need to verify my email. So annoying.”

“the out-of-the-box automod and autospam prevention tools in Discord are generally good enough you probably don't need third party bots”

“I would rather leverage basic HTTP websites for consuming social media content than everything being that boring discord client”

“What Discord does so well is that you start using it for gaming but then it also becomes the space for all kinds of things.”

“Private space for a group of people to interact asynchronously in a way that's more structured than a text group chat.”

“it's very easy to make a friend server that has all you basically need: sending messages, images/files and being able to talk with voice channels.”

“While it stinks that it is controlled by one big company, it's quite nice that its communities are invite-only by default”

“Discord is really where it is at these days. Discord servers with 50-100 people form the new social fabric of the internet where real community lies.”

“Discord gives the ability for users to moderate their social spaces without the overhead of having to run their own forum software”

“a Chinese-controlled privacy nightmare (with it apparently requiring non VOIP phone numbers for verification after being logged in for a while)”

“It is simply inaccessible to anyone not using the platform. You need to create an account and join the community/"server" to see anything posted there.”