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Advertisements I guess? I still cannot believe how fast they captured game chat market, even with lots of other competitors. Honestly I also would like to ente

Advertisements I guess? I still cannot believe how fast they captured game chat market, even with lots of other competitors. Honestly I also would like to enter to this market but breaking the market share of discord will be very hard indeed.

tacticalmook 5y ago
That's not surprising to me. Discord offers free hosting for a feature-rich IRC and group voice service. Nobody else did that. A gaming clan no longer needs to maintain their own Teamspeak/Ventrilo server + their own website and forum. The convenience of having it all in one centralized program wins out over Discord's UX oddities, privacy concerns and more recent bloat. This ease of use also lowered the barrier to create a clan, so it captures a larger audience than its predecessors ever did. And yet it still provides powerful tools for moderation and user permissions, an API for chat bots, video streaming...
chrononaut 5y ago
To be fair, I think everyone always thinks about that regarding the incumbent(s). Xfire / Ventrilo / TeamSpeak all likely seemed like a daunting adversary at their peaks.