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The issue then becomes "well why don't they just go back to a Teamspeak server? they can self host it!" But we're forgetting there that the average person onli
by dabockster 1y ago
The issue then becomes "well why don't they just go back to a Teamspeak server? they can self host it!"
But we're forgetting there that the average person online is not a dev. The most they usually know is how to point and click on something. Which also means they usually don't know how to spin up a Linux machine/VM somewhere and install their own chat server.
Discord is popular because it lets almost anyone on Earth point and click to create a chat "server". If someone can figure out how to do that (eg cPanel), you can absolutely break their moat.
- SunlitCat 1y agoWhich is kinda sad. Way back in the mid-2000s, I was playing World of Warcraft with a few people I had met in the game itself. Later on, we chipped in to rent a TeamSpeak server from a company that offered ready-made servers and we had a lot of fun. You didn’t even have to do much admin work. :(
- giancarlostoro 1y agoYou still don't have to do much these services still exist, even for Mumble. Their limitation is scaling. So if you want way more than just a handful of people, you either start charging everyone an entrance fee, or you cap the server.
- dabockster 1y agoDiscord's limitation is scaling as well, to be honest. It's incredibly hard to follow a server full of tens of thousands of people. Just because something can scale in a technical sense doesn't mean it will scale in a human one.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI'm in such servers, people pick channels, and also slowmode is a key factor to stop people spamming too quickly. VC is also drastically quieter on average, but can be fun too.