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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

by 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