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Why do communities even move to Discord? I can't honestly understand it. It has the worst UI ever. Does it have some killer feature others lack?
by jamager 4y ago
Why do communities even move to Discord?
I can't honestly understand it. It has the worst UI ever. Does it have some killer feature others lack?
- user-extended 4y ago1. Old people do not use it. 2. Very responsive, searching for previous messages takes seconds. 3. I remember back in '17, most other VOIP and especially video calling services sucked. Discord made gaming with your non-techie friends with a crappy laptop plug & play. 4. Lack of censorship (at the beginning). 5. Good UI when it was released compared to its competitors. 6. Gaming Centered Nature back when that was not common and/or alternatives were complicated and clunky (TeamSpeak). 7. Very good integration of GIFs, meme emojis, and the like. 8. Old people do not use it.
- Blackstrat 4y agoA bit of ageism? Perhaps “old people” simply have better things to do than play video games and share juvenile jokes with their anonymous Discord “friends”, attempting to demonstrate their coolness. I would suggest that age or any other demographic category, whether race, gender, sexual preference, etc. constitutes a poor metric by which to judge the merits of a technology platform.
- user-extended 4y agoI don't see too many young people on Facebook, is that ageism too? I was replying to the question why do communities move there, and I think that's one of the reasons.
- waspight 4y agoI can absolutely see that the UI is better than Facebook groups if that is the alternative. But I would like the Reddit style community UI more if that was an option.