I also want this suite of things. I stream movies to friends, share games I’m playing…
These are core features to me now in a robust chat client
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iamthetot@piefed.ca 8 hours agoI don’t really see how someone can position Discourse as the number one Discord alternative. Surely most people looking to ditch Discord want live chat, audio/video calls, and screen sharing… Or am I just in the minority here?
For the record, I think Discourse looks awesome and even thinking about how I might use it for a project, but I do not see it as a Discord alternative.
karashta@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that Discord has a variety of features, and each feature can be more or less useful for different types of communities. The ones I’ve used NEVER used anything but text chat.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
I understand that but even the text chat is a different experience than what Discourse offers. Even people who only used Discord for text chat and want a replacement for that would be better on IRC.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s not the text chat they’re referring to. An annoying amount of open so it be projects use Discord as a replacement for forums specifically.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
I’m aware but I don’t think this was the issue Ulrich was speaking of. If they were, I don’t think it was well conveyed.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Yeah, clearly everyone loves IRC, that’s why no one uses Discord /s
iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
I honestly think the vast majority of people on Discord don’t know what IRC is, and therefore don’t have an opinion of it. However, I didn’t mean to suggest IRC as the best alternative anyway.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Live chat is all I ever use but you never know
Cheems@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I used to use to for audio calls now I use it more for a forum.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
I thought Discourse was bought by Roblox, merged into Roblox, and then discontinued outside of Roblox?
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 5 hours ago
You’re thinking of Guilded.
Looks like Roblox forced everyone using Guilder to suddenly have a Roblox account in 2024, and then Guilder officially shut down about 2 months ago (end of 2025).
markz@suppo.fi 7 hours ago
Lots of communities use discord as a replacement for a forum despite it not being fit for it at all
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Sure, but that’s not an argument for replacing Discord with forums. The two serve entirely different use cases, and should be treated like two entirely separate products.
gloktawasright@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Isn’t it though? A forum wouldn’t do all the things discord does, but the argument is that trying to use discord for a forum was a mistake in the first place. So replacing discord with a forum and then a dedicated chatting app makes sense, no?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I think we’re essentially saying the same thing in different ways. Yes, I 100% agree that forums should be separate from whatever the new Discord replacement ends up being.
I was more arguing that we can’t only use forums to replace Discord, because the realtime communication aspect would be a different use case. I’ve seen lots of “lol just use forums” types of posts, which completely ignore the realtime side of things. There would still need to be some service to replace the realtime aspects that Discord does serve.