Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
Co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down, but will remain with the company as a member of the board of directors.
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I apologize for sounding ignorant but what do people use discord for exactly?
It could be that I don't enough friends on it to replace text messaging.
I tried to join a bunch of communities to replace Reddit with discord but the stream of consciousness design of the channel posts kinda muddles everything since you can't really separate the replies from the submissions.
I guess I should be happy I didn't get invested in something that looks like it's changing for the worse but kinda curious when I see people get really upset about change and wonder what I missed out on haha
For me, the huge value-add of Discord is for gaming (and is what Discord was created for). In college, my friends and I were originally using Skype calls when we'd play League together, but it was super annoying; essentially in order to not have to create a new call and add everyone who happened to be playing every time we just had one giant call with everyone we'd "redial" when playing. The downside is that if you were on Skype but not part of the game (in class or something) you'd get the Skype call invitation and have to decline it.
Switching to Discord was fantastic. We'd just have a persistent voice channel for different games, and you could chill in there to indicate it's what you were playing or wanted to play, and if someone wanted to join they just jump on the call. It was also nice for organizing our text chats into different subjects (using different text channels), so if you were trying to ask if anyone had any advice for a certain class, you wouldn't have your messages drowned out by people talking about news about a upcoming game. We just have a "games" text channels and a "classes" text channels and a "weekend plans" text channel, etc. This became particularly important as the server grew from friends to friends of friends and would've been overwhelming to have everyone stuck in one chat.
That's pretty much been the extent of my Discord use, and I'm continually amazed to hear how others have been using it. I've seen the "join us on Discord, X, Facebook, etc." for different games coming out, but never thought much of it or ever considered doing that.
Sounds like a fantastic way to use the app. My wife has a friend who does that playing online games and I guess I always thought they just called each other haha.
But actually sounds like an interesting idea to try and get my friends (all in our late 30s) to talk a little more and maybe actually get some plans together.
Thank you!
Personally? The vast bulk of my interactions with people online. Voice chat, DMs, servers for pretty much everything. Being involved in roleplaying communities in DayZ and Conan, the vast majority of the behind-the-scenes stuff is taking place on discord. Servers for particular game servers as well as groups make up a pretty big portion of my list, along with smaller private discord servers of networks of players from various other servers. It's how I stay connected with dozens of people I've known for years.
I'm also in quite a few discords related to modding and game development. Nearly every modder has their own discord, which is extremely useful if you're running your own game servers and need to be in contact with them or if you make mods yourself and want to seek advice or information for compatibility. The same is true of a lot of other non-gaming software, with many developers having their own servers where they post updates and where you can find advice or post suggestions.
I've got a few queer community servers on my list, which were particularly helpful when I was early in my transition before I really had gotten around to rebuilding my social network and finding accepting people. There's even a discord for a group of animators I used to spend a lot of time with back in the mid 00s; back then we were using forums and IRC mostly, and a little bit of Skype, but these days it's been a good way to keep in touch.
If I'm home and on my computer, I'm almost always in a discord voice chat. It's basically the modern equivalent of AIM or ICQ or Facebook, but with loads of added features and without Meta being involved. I even use it for note taking and storing images and screencaps.
Even something like Matrix, at the moment, doesn't really cover all the voice and video chat features that Discord does. It's close, but it's missing essential components like push-to-talk, and it requires workarounds to enable things like screen sharing.
Discord turning to shit would be a real pain in the ass.
im in a bunch of twitch streamer communities
what do people use discord for exactly?
Too much.
It's a chat platform geared towards gamers, with voice chat, screen sharing, and streaming options... that's been coopted by vloggers... but most unsettlingly, it's being used for customer support and documentation.
A lot of knowledge bases are buried in the walled garden of servers, and a labyrinth of chat rooms.
That last point is exactly how I feel about discord and telegram. Maybe not walled off yet but definitely a labyrinth of chat rooms of data that I can't easily digest.
