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Its more like classic IRC than everything else. I think it's even more ephemeral than Slack. Most servers have two channel types: slow announcement channels tha
by dexwiz 4y ago
Its more like classic IRC than everything else. I think it's even more ephemeral than Slack. Most servers have two channel types: slow announcement channels that only owners post to, and fast conversation channels for fans, content creators, etc.
Any important announcement like release notes will be in announcements. Announcement channels have no discussion directly inside them.
The conversation channels are like message rooms of old. Usually the conversation channels have important or common questions answered in pinned posts. Unless you want to talk now, they are kind of useless. Also you need to spend some time in them before you know people and how best to use them. You can jump in and ask a question, you might get an answer.
It's a power use interface, and takes some time to learn. Once you learn it, you will miss features in other apps.
- naikrovek 4y agoyep, exactly. if IRC was on the web, back in the day, I feel it would have been a lot like discord.
- seydor 4y agoIRC is on the web and has been for some time, but it is not like discord. There is a difference in their approach Discord tries to make chat searchable so they encourage splitting conversations to 1000 channels, and a more asynchronous way of replying. It s a searchable live news feed rathr than a chat transcript. IRC is simple live stream, if something is not noted immediately, it gets lost and you have to repeat it. It's meant to be ephemeral
- naikrovek 4y agoIRC is not a web protocol. IRC is on the Internet, but not the web. IRC frontends can be and are hosted on web pages, but that's not the same thing. Discord is hosted on port 443, uses HTTPS as a transport protocol, and is entirely a web application. anyway, I feel that discord is meant to be just as ephemeral as plain IRC is, given that nearly every IRC server I have ever used automatically logged everything that happened to a searchable web interface.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoNo Matrix users here, huh?
- Markoff 4y agoIRC didn't require e-mail AND phone number to use it
- thiht 4y agoAnd IRC is dead. Getting one’s account stolen on IRC because of NickServ was common occurrence with new users.
- Markoff 4y agoGet back to me after Discord will be 25+ years as IRC and let's compare which how was each "dead" at that stage. I couldn't care less about my ephemeral IRC account getting used (not sure why you call it stolen, if it's just there for anyone to take) by someone else, it's for sure much less important to me than sharing my email AND phone with some corporation, especially considering email would be more than enough to verify the user.
- b1ue64 4y agoDiscord doesn't need your phone number, although if you try using a VPN or Tor they'll think you're suspicious and require it
- Markoff 4y agooh so it was just my imagination they first required email, them they required phone and I don't use VPN/TOR, maybe avoid black statements if you don't have clue, when did you try to register last time?
- tmaly 4y agoI really liked the ability to automate IRC. I am not very familiar with what the options are for this on discord.
- antifa 4y agoServer admins can write/install bots. End users can get banned for trying anything that's not the unedited default client.
- sph 4y agoIt's not like IRC. You had one or two channels per topic. Discord servers have 50 channels for everything under the sun. You join a programming Discord, there's a general, meme, spam, announcements channels, like on that gaming discord, like on my friends' Discord, etc. It's incredibly hard to navigate. And they're complete siloes. Previously someone on #programming could join #friends-channel. Now you need to explicitly invite them. So there's no cross-pollination possible. It's nothing like IRC.