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It pretty much replaced my WoW guild's forum overnight when we started using it for voice. The guy who was paying for the Mumble rental asked us to try it and w

It pretty much replaced my WoW guild's forum overnight when we started using it for voice. The guy who was paying for the Mumble rental asked us to try it and we really liked it immediately. Pings that raiders will actually see, amazing. One click to join instead of having to dial thru a wizard with an IP and port (I know mumble had support for that but nobody knew how to use it, and WoW ingame chat does not let you copy text out easily while discord made sure their codes were easy to type). Sending gifs and videos to the team while waiting for an AFK was a nice new development too. That said, it doesn't make sense for me for huge communities. I definitely think it's the best for small/medium groups but once chat starts moving a too fast to follow, what is the point? Trying to follow older discussions is also super hard compared to a forum. It's also not a good knowledge repository. One thing that we used our forum for reliably was storing our personal tactics, common assignments, what addons we require etc in a central place. Trying to do it in a chat channel was like pulling teeth and we couldn't assign multiple people to edit the content.

jorvi 3y ago
Discord recently added a forum channel function for that. Its locked to the community server toggle though (god knows why with how much that is complained about), and it doesn’t solve the walled garden problem.
pndy 3y ago
All my GW2 guilds at some point created discord servers and all life moved there and in time in-game chat channels become ghost towns. When we moved from TS to discord the first noticeable change was audio quality and the fact that we "owned" the space - it no longer was a single audio channel on some community-run server. The links and media previews were also a nice novelty; nothing new anymore around social media at that point but it felt like this should be a standard feature. And years later this indeed become a standard feature around the Internet.
imtringued 3y ago
That is actually it. Discord was the first app that could hold a candle to Mumble and it did everything in the browser without having to install a client or run a server. I don't understand the people who don't understand Discord's value proposition. When it was coming out it had basically no competitors. It was obvious as early as 2016 how popular discord will become. It is only now after the pandemic that the competition has established itself. Matrix is essentially a copycat of discord. Now people complain and argue against discord, because they have options.
- jabroni_salad 3y ago
  Not only Mumble but a lot of gaming people were using Skype, especially with matchmade games like league of legends and starcraft. Mumble was nice for pre-arranged party lines but extremely lacking for the 'contact this person I just met' use case. When discord came out we finally had an option that didn't involve making your DDOS'able IP address available to anyone that searches your name.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
  > I don't understand the people who don't understand Discord's value proposition. I think they fall into one of three buckets: 1. They have an extremely strong hatred for Electron and let that hatred overcome any actual thought about the product. 2. They're trying to use Discord for something it's not designed to be. Discord is not a replacement for Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media. It is primarily a text/voice chat service. It's a replacement for IRC, Mumble, Skype, Ventrilo, etc. 3. They don't see the need for Discord when IRC still exists because they completely miss all the short-comings that IRC has that a modern audience expects. For example, missing a conversation because you happened to not be online is inexcusable these days, but more importantly, people expect the ability to post images directly to chat. I mean really, the more I think about it, the more I wonder why it took so long for something like Discord to exist. We should have had something like it 10 years prior.
  - mysterydip 3y ago
    I'm fine using it for what it's designed for (your #2). My problem is when I see "need support? just join our discord!" when they really need a forum or some other system.
  - mjevans 3y ago
    0. They know the value of CHOICE and demand an open protocol that anyone can create a client or server for so that communities can maintain OWNERSHIP over their data and ensure there isn't a single point of failure / man in the middle.
    - 3y ago

jorvi 3y ago

Discord recently added a forum channel function for that. Its locked to the community server toggle though (god knows why with how much that is complained about), and it doesn’t solve the walled garden problem.

pndy 3y ago

All my GW2 guilds at some point created discord servers and all life moved there and in time in-game chat channels become ghost towns. When we moved from TS to discord the first noticeable change was audio quality and the fact that we "owned" the space - it no longer was a single audio channel on some community-run server. The links and media previews were also a nice novelty; nothing new anymore around social media at that point but it felt like this should be a standard feature. And years later this indeed become a standard feature around the Internet.

imtringued 3y ago

That is actually it. Discord was the first app that could hold a candle to Mumble and it did everything in the browser without having to install a client or run a server. I don't understand the people who don't understand Discord's value proposition. When it was coming out it had basically no competitors. It was obvious as early as 2016 how popular discord will become. It is only now after the pandemic that the competition has established itself. Matrix is essentially a copycat of discord. Now people complain and argue against discord, because they have options.

jabroni_salad 3y ago
Not only Mumble but a lot of gaming people were using Skype, especially with matchmade games like league of legends and starcraft. Mumble was nice for pre-arranged party lines but extremely lacking for the 'contact this person I just met' use case. When discord came out we finally had an option that didn't involve making your DDOS'able IP address available to anyone that searches your name.
Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
> I don't understand the people who don't understand Discord's value proposition. I think they fall into one of three buckets: 1. They have an extremely strong hatred for Electron and let that hatred overcome any actual thought about the product. 2. They're trying to use Discord for something it's not designed to be. Discord is not a replacement for Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media. It is primarily a text/voice chat service. It's a replacement for IRC, Mumble, Skype, Ventrilo, etc. 3. They don't see the need for Discord when IRC still exists because they completely miss all the short-comings that IRC has that a modern audience expects. For example, missing a conversation because you happened to not be online is inexcusable these days, but more importantly, people expect the ability to post images directly to chat. I mean really, the more I think about it, the more I wonder why it took so long for something like Discord to exist. We should have had something like it 10 years prior.
- mysterydip 3y ago
  I'm fine using it for what it's designed for (your #2). My problem is when I see "need support? just join our discord!" when they really need a forum or some other system.
- mjevans 3y ago
  0. They know the value of CHOICE and demand an open protocol that anyone can create a client or server for so that communities can maintain OWNERSHIP over their data and ensure there isn't a single point of failure / man in the middle.
  - 3y ago