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I forgot the most important thing of all, there's no invitation system to join a group chat in Skype! You can get put into chats you have no interest in. Disco

I forgot the most important thing of all, there's no invitation system to join a group chat in Skype! You can get put into chats you have no interest in. Discord servers allow you to build communities, and can and do scale up to tens of thousands of members. This is something Skype simply can't be used for. Maybe it's not your use-case. You may want channels in a community because there may be different topics you want to split apart. For example, in a programming server, Ruby and JavaScript channels, but both in the same server. Much like subforums on a traditional forum. Bots are separate from user accounts on Discord, and you have total control over their permissions. Bots using user accounts are strictly prohibited. I don't think not adding people you don't trust is a solution to proper access control. Even if you do, their accounts being breached is always an issue. You caught me on the computer issue! I can't say much about it, other than that you might not be the intended target of developers anymore, so for that reason I can understand your choice of Skype Classic. Discord is akin to a modern, centralized IRC for me. As a final note, I believe the privacy situation on Skype to be much worse than Discord (though I can't act like Discord is Signal or something).

Endy 8y ago
You can also leave those chats you're not interested in with the touch of a button, or mute the chat if you care about the people but don't care about the chat itself. Heck, you can set it with a filter, as I said, so that it pops up if something you are interested in gets discussed. I don't quite understand your mindset about the need for subchannels on a centralized IM client. Why not just have two group chats, one named "Perl" and the other named "ECMAScript/JavaScript"? Or, since as you pointed out it's similar to a forum structure, why not just use a forum? Also, user-reliant privacy is stronger, to me, than computer-reliant privacy. Educating users, showing them and letting them see why they should have good security practices, etc., seems like a better deal in the long run than trying to keep track of accounts and outwit the next person to exploit some weakness in the code. But I think your one comment sums everything up: "Discord is akin to a modern, centralized IRC for me." Modern IRC, for me, is just, well, IRC. I have Miranda-NG on my computer because ChatZilla's not that good anymore. I don't need it centralized, because that's not how it works. As I said, the most bearable Discord ever was for me, was when I ran it through Miranda alongside my logins to FreeNode, EFNet, and Undernet. And even that only lasted a week before I got too frustrated with the annoyances.

Endy 8y ago

You can also leave those chats you're not interested in with the touch of a button, or mute the chat if you care about the people but don't care about the chat itself. Heck, you can set it with a filter, as I said, so that it pops up if something you are interested in gets discussed. I don't quite understand your mindset about the need for subchannels on a centralized IM client. Why not just have two group chats, one named "Perl" and the other named "ECMAScript/JavaScript"? Or, since as you pointed out it's similar to a forum structure, why not just use a forum? Also, user-reliant privacy is stronger, to me, than computer-reliant privacy. Educating users, showing them and letting them see why they should have good security practices, etc., seems like a better deal in the long run than trying to keep track of accounts and outwit the next person to exploit some weakness in the code. But I think your one comment sums everything up: "Discord is akin to a modern, centralized IRC for me." Modern IRC, for me, is just, well, IRC. I have Miranda-NG on my computer because ChatZilla's not that good anymore. I don't need it centralized, because that's not how it works. As I said, the most bearable Discord ever was for me, was when I ran it through Miranda alongside my logins to FreeNode, EFNet, and Undernet. And even that only lasted a week before I got too frustrated with the annoyances.