I’m personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
      24·
      2 years ago

      God I hope so. Discord works fine as a voice chat and groupchat for games. But it’s insane to me that people use it as a replacement for message boards or websites and hosting files. It isnt indexed so you cant google it and a groupchat is a terrible format for this. Even as reddit dies you have some people acting like a glorified group chat is a good alternative. As an addition and supplement to a message board or website community sure this is how it’s always been even in the old days there were boards with an active IRC chat. As the replacement? Awful.

      • amki@feddit.de
        5·
        2 years ago

        It is a terrible format but it has the extreme advantage of being free.

        • Laser@feddit.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          The whole current fiasco stems from services being free and then trying to cash in later hoping that users won’t switch, there’s no guarantee that Discord won’t pull similar stuff to Reddit. In fact they already are hostile to third party clients.

          • amki@feddit.de
            1·
            2 years ago

            Discord has to pull this sometime becuase venture capital isn’t going to sustain it for eternity and “Nitro” makes next to nothing compared to cost. I just hope Matrix has the tech to save me when it hits.