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But that wasn't an innovation. Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Mumble, they all work that way.
by bhauer 6y ago
But that wasn't an innovation. Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Mumble, they all work that way.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThe innovation was building something that anyone would use or even incidentally use. Like you're already in a Discord server to talk about something, and all of those people have global voice chats that they can drop in and out of even just out of curiosity. It's a powerful (and essential) community-building fundamental. Polar opposite of Ventrilo. Discord is the community, not some chat widget on the side. Kind of like a modern MMORPG vs a MUD's `telnet 107.141.162.82 4500` to point out that World of Warcraft didn't innovate much because you're still just connecting to a server. For some reason people always make the mistake of thinking that "a UX/experience that the mainstream will use/love" isn't hard nor innovation. In fact, it's the engineering that's the easy part.
- daptaq 6y agoI've never used Ventrilo, but it sounds just like Mumble.