you mean unlike the tools discord has replaced, such as “mumble”, “ventrilo”, “roger wilco” and “trillian”?
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hesh@quokk.au 22 hours agoHonestly the name choice adds difficulty in getting friends to take it seriously. Why did they pick “stoat”
lime@feddit.nu 21 hours ago
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Mumble is a very like talking. What the fuck ks stoat got to do with anything?
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Xfire
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Discord never replaced mumble. The two are in different circles.
lime@feddit.nu 18 hours ago
for some, yeah. depends on your use case.
hesh@quokk.au 21 hours ago
Unironically yes
lime@feddit.nu 20 hours ago
soundn like a problem with your friends then. who doesn’t love a stoat?
hesh@quokk.au 20 hours ago
I know, it’s picky lol. I’m still considering it as the replacement for my discord groups (also checking out Element/Matrix). The average users aren’t going to be up for swapping around a lot of platforms, so I am hoping to make one big push on the platform of choice. “Revolt” would have gotten less “wtf is that, how do you even spell it?” than “Stoat”
quaff@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
No clue! It was revolt before. I think they had trademark issues with that name. What’s wrong with stoat?
ttyybb@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I was wondering why I want getting any updates, checked thegithub a few months ago and found out they rebranded. Haven’t had a chance to try the latest version out yet
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
Personally, I associate stoats with Dwarf Fortress. And much butchering thereof.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
This whole “FOSS names are bad” sounds like a Mccarthyism sysop by this point. Like, really, who is pushing that crap?
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
seems like they had a decent name ‘revolt’ but got some cease and desist and didn’t resist and decided to switch.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
The name doesnt matter
IRC is a stupid name too, unless you know what the letters stand for
Msn messenger was stupid
Icq was stupid
Wtf even is “skype”?
It just has to be unique
And a Stout is kinda cute
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Stoats are awesome.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 21 hours ago
Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.
A communication app called Discord is pretty weird too.
A stoat is a pretty cool animal.
I think without prior knowledge of any voice chat Discord would probably rate worse in perception than Stoat.