They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•9 months ago

    After however many years I finally joined two discord instances for some niche topics where community was hard to find elsewhere.

    I haven’t used IRC in a few years I admit, but I’m a few months in with discord, and so far it has never stopped feeling like IRC with a confusing interface, a gaudy new coat of paint, and emojis everywhere.

    I have no idea why it’s seemingly the ONLY place anyone wants to create an interactive community anymore for so many things.

    • @WayTooDankEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      Because its zero-effort to make a functional forum (no hosting or backend to be set up) and you have almost full control over the space / it’s isolated from other communities (unlike reddit)

      EDIT: I don’t like discord either, but I can see why content creators and the likes would prefer it to other forums