Subj : 2038: still be running a
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 20:16:26

  Re: 2038: still be running a
  By: Sean Dennis to Arelor on Fri Mar 26 2021 06:05 pm

 > Hello Arelor,
 > 
 > Friday March 26 2021 04:21, you wrote to August Abolins:
 > 
 >  A> See the Discord vs everythign else thread in FSXnet for the reasoning.
 > 
 > I use Discord a lot and to me, it seems like a more mature version of
 > Conference Room which was a very "GUI-fied" version of IRC.  In fact, IIRC, 
 > Discord developers said something along that lines (of Discord being based o
 > IRC).
 > 
 > To me, I will always love the original. :)
 > 
 > Later,
 > Sean

Yeah, one gets tired of knockoffs quite quickly :-)

Discord has lots of issues that are not related to the software itself, but
still manage to piss me off. Mainly its users.

See, it used to be common for Discord users to arrive to a community
communication platform and try to pull everybody into Discord, whether Discord
was a good platform for what the community was doing or not.

I remember building a Mumble server and a set of bots for playing some RPG
games over VOIP, using my own infrastructure, and some Discord user convinced
everybody to use Discrod instead for the game, citing all the capabilities
Discord has, and all the bots available and its healthy ecosystem. They forced
the issue and we ended up playing over Discord because it was obvious it was
"so much featureful". It turned out we ended up using NONE of the advertised
extra capatilities. So in the end we ended up using an untrustworthy platform
controlled by a third party in exchange of (supposed) perks we didn't use.



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