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there is an entire generation conditioned to call any group chat or instance a “server” and the pedant in me absolutely wants to scream every time I hear it I
by bangaroo 2y ago
there is an entire generation conditioned to call any group chat or instance a “server” and the pedant in me absolutely wants to scream every time I hear it
I believe the origin, however, was to help it clearly and directly compete with teamspeak or mumble at the time it launched. You would actually have to invest in some sort of hosted server for your group, so the name made sense as a way to help people visualize how discord worked. It’s definitely a relic at this point though.
- realfeel78 2y agoRelic isn't the word. They've changed/expanded the meaning of the term.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoIf we’re doing pedantry Olympics then the definition of server: “a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network” Seems like it could apply to a discord group. The centralized resource being chat data.