Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : Mewcenary
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Feb 09 2022 01:25:20

 Me> The modern equivalents are Slack and Discord.  Generally, Slack for the
 Me> corporate world and Discord for (mostly) gaming and casual chat. I'd say
 Me> that Discord is the new IRC in that regard, and combines it with video
 Me> streaming and voice chat -- a pretty impressive package.
 Me> 
 Me> The PING lives on ;)

I joined a few groups on Discord, because I was looking for people to play Quake and Quake 2 against.  One group for Q2 players down under did result in some organised games, but I didn't explore discord past that.

Maybe I'm old, but the video, images seem unnecessary, and the fact that you can look back in history, kind of seems like a bad design.  It's almost like a running forum than chat sometimes.  It can be used as chat, but also as a message board, like its half way between the two.

I'm not fond of Discord at all, proprietary and it seems they can decide which communities to shut down.  Not where we should be heading.

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