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Stage 2 evokes warm memories. The clients were featureful enough but very far from being resource hogs. The UIs were workable and hid plenty of options in their
by HeckFeck 5y ago
Stage 2 evokes warm memories. The clients were featureful enough but very far from being resource hogs. The UIs were workable and hid plenty of options in their menus.
The webcam features on MSN messenger landed at the same time as broadband internet became widespread in my country, when I was at school, so everyone was in on the novelty.
Some of it is certainly the cynicism of age and work life, but I'm certain something has been lost since then. The UI, the nudges, the winks, the games, the chaotic friend lists were all magic in a way that FB, WA, Slack, Teams, Discord, et al aren't.
- Gigachad 5y agoThats probably more to do with your perspective rather than anything to do with the clients. I find discord to be very exciting and it’s always a joy to use. The idea of persistent voice channels might not have been invented by discord but it’s where the average person really first discovered them. Getting home and seeing a few friends on discord and joining in has always been a magic experience for me.
- kuschku 5y agoAre you saying average PC users never used TeamSpeak?
- Gigachad 5y agoPower user gamers did. But the average person did not. The Discord user base is vastly bigger than teamspeaks ever was. Way more people have been introduced to the concept now and it’s spread way beyond gaming and PC power users.