Discord is fun and useful, but it's doesn't feel the same way that IRC did 30 years ago.
Gone are the days when the "owner" of a channel or name was the person who got there first (or the person who was friends with a server admin), and DCC chats and file transfers, clever customizable scripts that would alter the entire interface to be closer to one's liking, a wide choice of clients, alternate nicks to use today because someone else was using yours (maybe deliberately, maybe not), and with netsplits just adding an element of chaos to the mix, and a seemingly-universal avoidance of getting money involved in the game at all.
(And maybe we're better without some of those aspects, but it's still not the same.)
> Gone are the days when the "owner" of a channel or name was the person who got there first (or the person who was friends with a server admin)
That’s exactly how discord servers are made
> clever customizable scripts that would alter the entire interface to be closer to one's liking, a wide choice of clients
While not official, discord has several third party clients.
The discord client is an electron app, so it’s just using discords api.
Not to say discord is perfect or the be all end all, but it shows a strong trend back towards real time interaction and away from posts.
I hope matrix picks up when discord starts playing ads.
I'd argue it's far closer unstructured to IRC than AIM. I don't recall being invited to different AIM servers, etc. To me, Discord is like packaging IRC functionality in an ICQ box, which, for some reason, everyone seems to have forgotten about in these discussions.
ssl-3|1 year ago
Gone are the days when the "owner" of a channel or name was the person who got there first (or the person who was friends with a server admin), and DCC chats and file transfers, clever customizable scripts that would alter the entire interface to be closer to one's liking, a wide choice of clients, alternate nicks to use today because someone else was using yours (maybe deliberately, maybe not), and with netsplits just adding an element of chaos to the mix, and a seemingly-universal avoidance of getting money involved in the game at all.
(And maybe we're better without some of those aspects, but it's still not the same.)
dartos|1 year ago
That’s exactly how discord servers are made
> clever customizable scripts that would alter the entire interface to be closer to one's liking, a wide choice of clients
While not official, discord has several third party clients. The discord client is an electron app, so it’s just using discords api.
Not to say discord is perfect or the be all end all, but it shows a strong trend back towards real time interaction and away from posts. I hope matrix picks up when discord starts playing ads.
futureduck|1 year ago
for now matrix seems to be the closest to this experience (but still not quite)
whoopdedo|1 year ago
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pjc50|1 year ago
Socially it's OK, as a piece of software it's dire.
dartos|1 year ago