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I’m similarly annoyed by Discord’s term “server”. Only recently started using Discord, and joined various “servers”, which seem as basically just groups with c
by radicality 2y ago
I’m similarly annoyed by Discord’s term “server”.
Only recently started using Discord, and joined various “servers”, which seem as basically just groups with chats. When I was prompted to create my own “server”, at first was hesitant thinking “whoa, I don’t want them to provision a whole server for me, that can’t be cheap”, then realized it has nothing to do with actual servers.
- SlackingOff123 2y agoIn the Discord API, "servers" are called "guilds" which I assume it was the original name for them when they started developing the platform. Don't know why they decided to change it.
- TheNicholasNick 2y agoSuspect, pure speculation, when they pivoted from being focused on gamers, switching from guild to server helped.
- wholinator2 2y agoOr, even more broad, someone just thought it might and implemented it, irrespective of whether it actually changed anything (discernible from background growth) or not
- jampa 2y agoIn the dark ages of the internet, you had to host a server in things like Ventrilo[1], which was the thing Discord tried and succeeded at disrupting. Since now you can create a "server" for talking with friends (and friends of friends) without being technical. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo
- zigman1 2y agoDid you have any success with the servers you joined? I want to start using it as well, but I just feel like an old person, not really getting it