“Obviously better” this isn’t obvious to me at all. Just because you don’t use the many features it offers doesn’t mean other people don’t.
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I hate that everyone uses discord. Why can’t we use IRC which is obviously better and uses a tiny fraction of the system resources that discord uses?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I hate how companies will refer to their Discord for customer service… Fuck that shit.
jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My 4GBs agree. I literally cannot use discord. It takes ridiculous amounts of resource because you are meant to goddamn live in it, not just chat.
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Discord was great when it had a goal to be a connection point for gaming parties but then they got greedy.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Reaction emojis, threads, screen sharing, and voice chat. IRC has none of these features. Better to get on the Matrix train
Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Matrix is so bad though. Slow, sometimes just doesn’t load, bridges are crap… Why would I want to switch to it?
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do you have an alternative to suggest or are you just here to whine?
Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Honestly if Discord went away I’d switch to posting notes on a cork board on the wall before I switched to Matrix in its current state.
Probius@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
“But I don’t want to eat the moldy cabbage on the ground outside!”
“Okay, do you have an alternative, or are you just gonna whine? Eat up!”
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Zulip.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Ircv3 has reactions, and threads. Along with some other features, like persistent condos.
Voice and screen sharing can be implemented via external services.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Are you serious? That’s excellent news!
iopq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Because I don’t care to set up a bot that monitors what is being said while I’m offline. Matrix is actually better, though
commander@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Nickserv was always a stupid idea.
The onboarding process for IRC is just too much of a hassle. A lot of terrible, horribly awful design decisions went into it. The few people who use it are too resistant to change so there’s not really a point in using it.
Matrix is the replacement for discord, although it still needs work like adding channels.
kautau@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The worst part about discord to me is that it’s used as a knowledge base for open source projects and games and such. This puts things in a walled garden. I instant get turned off by a thing when the homepage is “join our discord” or I see a comment like “oh it’s explained in the discord.”
It’s only a matter of time before discord becomes paywalled, and all the knowledge out there ceases to be public.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I like to play rom hacks, and sure enough, most of them want you to join their Discord to get information about any upcoming updates or what the mod author is making next. I hate it to absolute death.
kautau@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed. For me it’s very hard to feel the same about software projects that are like “fuck the corporations! Learn more on our discord.” Because the mental gymnastics are wild
commander@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
A lot of people just don’t see the bigger picture, and it shows.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Just a replacement as a newsletter is totally fine.
What’s not good is knowledge being solely shared there instead of a Wiki.
Github literally has wiki functionality built-in.
merdaverse@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve been saying this for years, but the general mood still hasn’t shifted against Discord. People were actually amazed back when it added… forums. But now if the company is going public the enshittification is imminent.