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Individual Discord communities are, and always have been, called "servers", despite the fact that they are entirely logical/digital entities and have no particu

Individual Discord communities are, and always have been, called "servers", despite the fact that they are entirely logical/digital entities and have no particular correspondence with actual physical servers (the way IRC servers do).

refulgentis 4y ago
Is this a distinction without a difference? Meaning, it seems eminently reasonable if I was 16, started a Disney Discord, got a verified badge for it, then Disney pointed out the delicacies of Discord handing the Official Disney Discord to a minor, it seems to be a reasonable compromise to make the official Disney Discord officially Disney's, and allow the 16 year old to still have the secret chats, etc.
- tryauuum 4y ago
  There's difference, physical ownership of the server would mean no company would be able to transfer ownership with a click of a mouse. Even if transfer of rights looks reasonable, it's better to live in a world where such transfer is made through law and not through company managers will.
- scraptor 4y ago
  A more reasonable compromise might be to give disney contol over the discord.gg/disney namespace but leave the existing server and it's community unmodified under the control of the people who actually built it.
codeflo 4y ago
In my opinion that was a very clever naming scheme to target the TeamSpeak crowd. In gaming communities, having “your own server” has always come with a sense of pride.
superkuh 4y ago
Exactly. This intentional lie by Discord is to abuse the connotations associated with the idea of having a "server" that existed with teamspeak/mumble/etc. But since it's not actually a server in any way, just a service, users act shocked when Discord takes away their community on a whim.
kuschku 4y ago
> and always have been, called "servers", That's not correct, originally they were called "Guilds", which is also what the API and code still use today.
- danaris 4y ago
  Interesting. I joined Discord fairly early, and they were already called "servers" then—but I have, indeed, seen the "guild" terminology in the API.
  - ziml77 4y ago
    I was also in pretty early (account says August 28, 2015) and I have only seen "guild" used in the API. I'm really curious what the timeline is on them being officially and publicly known as guilds and then changing to being officially called servers.
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refulgentis 4y ago

Is this a distinction without a difference? Meaning, it seems eminently reasonable if I was 16, started a Disney Discord, got a verified badge for it, then Disney pointed out the delicacies of Discord handing the Official Disney Discord to a minor, it seems to be a reasonable compromise to make the official Disney Discord officially Disney's, and allow the 16 year old to still have the secret chats, etc.

tryauuum 4y ago
There's difference, physical ownership of the server would mean no company would be able to transfer ownership with a click of a mouse. Even if transfer of rights looks reasonable, it's better to live in a world where such transfer is made through law and not through company managers will.
scraptor 4y ago
A more reasonable compromise might be to give disney contol over the discord.gg/disney namespace but leave the existing server and it's community unmodified under the control of the people who actually built it.

codeflo 4y ago

In my opinion that was a very clever naming scheme to target the TeamSpeak crowd. In gaming communities, having “your own server” has always come with a sense of pride.

superkuh 4y ago

Exactly. This intentional lie by Discord is to abuse the connotations associated with the idea of having a "server" that existed with teamspeak/mumble/etc. But since it's not actually a server in any way, just a service, users act shocked when Discord takes away their community on a whim.

kuschku 4y ago

> and always have been, called "servers", That's not correct, originally they were called "Guilds", which is also what the API and code still use today.

danaris 4y ago
Interesting. I joined Discord fairly early, and they were already called "servers" then—but I have, indeed, seen the "guild" terminology in the API.
- ziml77 4y ago
  I was also in pretty early (account says August 28, 2015) and I have only seen "guild" used in the API. I'm really curious what the timeline is on them being officially and publicly known as guilds and then changing to being officially called servers.

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