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I am confused. Why would anybody use Discord for anything other than...well, I don't know. I guess the same thing the old Yahoo! chat rooms were for 20 years

• haunter 3y ago
  >Why would anybody use Discord for anything It's a replacement for Ventrilo/Mumble/Teamspeak. At the time (and still) there were no voice chat + text chat service integrated into one that can be used for free both on web, desktop, and mobile.
• crtified 3y ago
  I don't use it, but have done in the past, and can see why it became popular. Textual communication is nothing new. But a relatively platform agnostic system which enabled anybody to quickly set up a room, or form and administer a private or public group, while also covering multimedia like voice comms and file sharing, in a modern and arguably elegant package, well developed even 5+ years ago, it's clear why it gathered a following in it's own right. Successful business strategies played a large part in the extent, of course. The fact does remain however that textual communication is nothing new, and content in Discord is subject to the same old principles of merit and efficiency with respect to data format, usage, and availability.