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Unfortunately no (reason why they are the biggest server on Discord with 13mln users)

by GaggiX 4y ago

sho_hn 4y ago
Forget about creating AGI -- the most amazing and unpredictable thing about the success of Midjourney is its success despite having the user interface of a 1998 DALnet xdcc warez channel.
- danuker 4y ago
  Computers from 1998 couldn't run the monstrous amount of JS and/or surveillance that is Discord with any sort of performance. https://stallman.org/discord.html https://stallman.org/discord.html In fact, it looks like modern ones can't either: https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/ https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/
  - ridgered4 4y ago
    It is really frustrating to me that discord seems to have taken over half of the use cases that forums used to fill. Reddit stole most of the other half, but every time I look into discord I cannot understand the popularity and people's willingness to push past all of the privacy and access friction it introduces.
    - ryder9 4y ago
      what's so hard to understand about why people are attracted to social media. we're social creatures
fenomas 4y ago
Huh, thanks. Seems like a weird moat to hide it behind but I guess they know what they're doing..
- GaggiX 4y ago
  I guess the social aspect makes the community stronger and the fact that you generate images (usually) in public channels is a way to stop most people to generate weird stuff.
  - aenvoker 4y ago
    This is the reason. Before Midjourney, www.eleuther.ai’s Discord had an image generation channel. There the benefits of generating socially were made obvious. People help each other, learn from each other, riff off each other. It accelerated technique evolution tremendously. Midjourney is a small team. They are working on a web interface. But, won’t release it until it is significantly better than all the benefits they get from Discord. Meanwhile, they’ve been too busy making quality improvements and scaling the service to keep up with demand.
- nerdponx 4y ago
  A Discord server is a lot easier to moderate, block people, etc. than an HTTP API with access tokens. Plus then you have a sort of captive audience of Discord community members that receive all of your notifications by default.

Unfortunately no (reason why they are the biggest server on Discord with 13mln users)

by GaggiX 4y ago

Unfortunately no (reason why they are the biggest server on Discord with 13mln users)

Forget about creating AGI -- the most amazing and unpredictable thing about the success of Midjourney is its success despite having the user interface of a 1998 DALnet xdcc warez channel.

danuker 4y ago
Computers from 1998 couldn't run the monstrous amount of JS and/or surveillance that is Discord with any sort of performance. https://stallman.org/discord.html https://stallman.org/discord.html In fact, it looks like modern ones can't either: https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/ https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/
- ridgered4 4y ago
  It is really frustrating to me that discord seems to have taken over half of the use cases that forums used to fill. Reddit stole most of the other half, but every time I look into discord I cannot understand the popularity and people's willingness to push past all of the privacy and access friction it introduces.
  - ryder9 4y ago
    what's so hard to understand about why people are attracted to social media. we're social creatures

fenomas 4y ago

Huh, thanks. Seems like a weird moat to hide it behind but I guess they know what they're doing..

GaggiX 4y ago
I guess the social aspect makes the community stronger and the fact that you generate images (usually) in public channels is a way to stop most people to generate weird stuff.
- aenvoker 4y ago
  This is the reason. Before Midjourney, www.eleuther.ai’s Discord had an image generation channel. There the benefits of generating socially were made obvious. People help each other, learn from each other, riff off each other. It accelerated technique evolution tremendously. Midjourney is a small team. They are working on a web interface. But, won’t release it until it is significantly better than all the benefits they get from Discord. Meanwhile, they’ve been too busy making quality improvements and scaling the service to keep up with demand.
nerdponx 4y ago
A Discord server is a lot easier to moderate, block people, etc. than an HTTP API with access tokens. Plus then you have a sort of captive audience of Discord community members that receive all of your notifications by default.