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I’m someone who uses Discord but (almost) never uses voice chat. To me it’s a text chat platform. This isn’t true for everyone but I feel like it is for a lot o

• Brybry 3y ago
  But think about why you're now using Discord instead of IRC or a forum: it's because of the users who were also pulled in for the core VoIP feature and because users would rather use one program than multiple. I didn't stop using Mumble or IRC because they couldn't, combined, meet my needs. I even prefer them to Discord on a principle basis. But everyone I wanted to communicate with moved to Discord because it was easier -- as it had both core features which are necessary for gamers.
  • croes 3y ago
    >But everyone I wanted to communicate with moved to Discord because it was easier -- as it had both core features which are necessary for gamers That's the real reason why you use Discord. Peer pressure. Discord is in no way a replacement for a forum
  • circuit10 3y ago
    The network effect is obviously a big part of it, but it’s also that IRC is extremely barebones and difficult to use even for messages. I’m quite a techy person and I even wrote my own frontend to Discord a while ago, but I’ve struggled with things like bouncers and authentication to the point where it’s just easier to set up a bridge to Discord and use that when I need to use IRC, and then I miss features like editing and profile pictures (there are proposals to add these things to IRCv3 but they aren’t widely supported) IRCCloud seems to have a good solution to some of this but is paid