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Discord is the best thing that happened to me since IRC and I could not be happier. We exchange art, we discuss movies, we play DND together. Obviously it could

Discord is the best thing that happened to me since IRC and I could not be happier. We exchange art, we discuss movies, we play DND together. Obviously it could not replace IRL connections, but it complements them nicely.

kzzzznot 7y ago
I’ve very recently signed up to discord. Are you able to recommend any high quality tech discord servers/of the same calibre as HN? Im also interested in video games playing/development
- blakewatson 7y ago
  Oooh, I too would like to see a curated list of tech Discord servers.
- acemarke 7y ago
  The Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are the best place on the Internet to discuss React, Redux, and other related JS technologies : https://www.reactiflux.com https://www.reactiflux.com
- gaogao 7y ago
  Both the Rust Programming Language Community Server and the Rust Programming Language server are pretty nice.
dmitriid 7y ago
No idea why you're being downvoted (my hunch is that HN is extremely biased towards IRC and XMPP). Discord is the lifeblood of a lot of gaming communities and a growing number of IT communities.
- ve55 7y ago
  He's likely being downvoted because he's discussing that he's happy with an open protocol being deprecated in favor of a centralized service that is the opposite, logging all of your private messages, forcing you to use their own client, etc. Granted, they increased usability significantly by doing this, but it comes at a large cost for people that value freedom and privacy.
  - diminoten 7y ago
    "people that value freedom and privacy" Come on man, it's so hard to have conversations when people say shit like this...
    - ve55 7y ago
      I really didn't mean it in an insulting way, I just wanted to shorten saying things like "Be forced to use a specific proprietary client+protocol and have all of your private messages stored by a for-profit company indefinitely". I could have used better phrasing because freedom and privacy mean different things to different users though, yes.
  - WilliamEdward 7y ago
    People have a right not to care about their own privacy. You've just described the entire target market for discord. Why HN thinks this is a moral failing and downvotes accordingly is, in my opinion, their own ignorance, not anyone else's.
    - astrobe_ 7y ago
      > People have a right not to care about their own privacy Would you say that about freedom of speech, thought or movement? I'm asking because all of them are human rights. Do you think you have the moral right to give up on human rights? https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind... Preamble: "Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction."

kzzzznot 7y ago

I’ve very recently signed up to discord. Are you able to recommend any high quality tech discord servers/of the same calibre as HN? Im also interested in video games playing/development

blakewatson 7y ago
Oooh, I too would like to see a curated list of tech Discord servers.
acemarke 7y ago
The Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are the best place on the Internet to discuss React, Redux, and other related JS technologies : https://www.reactiflux.com https://www.reactiflux.com
gaogao 7y ago
Both the Rust Programming Language Community Server and the Rust Programming Language server are pretty nice.

dmitriid 7y ago

No idea why you're being downvoted (my hunch is that HN is extremely biased towards IRC and XMPP). Discord is the lifeblood of a lot of gaming communities and a growing number of IT communities.

ve55 7y ago
He's likely being downvoted because he's discussing that he's happy with an open protocol being deprecated in favor of a centralized service that is the opposite, logging all of your private messages, forcing you to use their own client, etc. Granted, they increased usability significantly by doing this, but it comes at a large cost for people that value freedom and privacy.
- diminoten 7y ago
  "people that value freedom and privacy" Come on man, it's so hard to have conversations when people say shit like this...
  - ve55 7y ago
    I really didn't mean it in an insulting way, I just wanted to shorten saying things like "Be forced to use a specific proprietary client+protocol and have all of your private messages stored by a for-profit company indefinitely". I could have used better phrasing because freedom and privacy mean different things to different users though, yes.
- WilliamEdward 7y ago
  People have a right not to care about their own privacy. You've just described the entire target market for discord. Why HN thinks this is a moral failing and downvotes accordingly is, in my opinion, their own ignorance, not anyone else's.
  - astrobe_ 7y ago
    > People have a right not to care about their own privacy Would you say that about freedom of speech, thought or movement? I'm asking because all of them are human rights. Do you think you have the moral right to give up on human rights? https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind... Preamble: "Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction."