this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
304 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37735 readers
45 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Argh, what I wouldn't give for Discord to absolutely tank itself.
Unfortunately, while the reddit "migration" was difficult, Discord would be even harder to move people from - while also not being as easy to just drop on a dime, since at least for myself there are plenty of friends on there that I don't have another way to contact...
Discord would have to be really stupid and do something really egregious though to get everyone to move off it all at once. The dream? Mumble and IRC, give me those back. I don't see that happening of course, Matrix would still be nice but it doesn't really do voice channels well.
Could pair Mumble with Discord, but I think the days of people being okay with having a different app for messaging and voice communication is over (when it comes to gaming surely) after a post-Discord world.
I had to push so hard to convince my main friend group to move our group chat over to Discord. They would have happily kept using Facebook messenger forever. I hope discord doesn't start tanking because a switch to yet another different platform would be a hard sell.
Holy cow I was in the exact same boat haha. Just this year we finally moved clan chat over since we were recruiting. They were the last reason I even checked Facebook.