Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification
Some countries have passed strict new laws dictating youth access to digital platforms.
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Lol, I tried using Discord garbage 2 or 3 times, just can't see why people like it. It was an awful experience every time. Convoluted, unintuitive UI, terrible software from a performance and stability standpoint. Seemed like software designed by committee with no clear objectives, and then coded by one schizophrenic dev who was just learning programming.
It's staggering to me it's as successful as it is.
Really? You don't see how a gamer centric software that put text and voice chat in a single solution, with the ability to join multiple servers and hot swtich between them on the fly, that let's you start private chats in a single click and keeps your entire history for all the channels and all the private chats that you have ever been part of, that has built in streaming and screen sharing capabilities without any additional configuration, became successful?
Nobody needs "performance" (whatever that means in this context) from Discord unless you need hundreds of people in a single voice channel. Its also stable AF.
Don't get me wrong, Discord is on a fast track to enshittification, but when it first came out, it made so many things so simple and accessible. There is still not a single solution that even comes close what you can do with Discord to this day.
Yeah and thanks to it being popular more people are using it, even in remote classes when Covid was. And some idiots think that alternatives (that are actually better) are worse and think that matrix or revolt would become garbage like discord
Name a single better alternative, I will wait. Lmao man, Matrix can't even load TEXT messages if there are slightly too many (yeah sure, it will eventually load if you wait long enough I guess), and it doesnt even have voice chat (not voice calls mind you, I am not calling 20 fucking people to play games with them). Revolt does not have screen sharing, nor does it have hot swappable/ joinable servers if you self host. It had like a 4 month period where voice chat didn't even work.
The fact thay Discord, a software that historically targeted gamers at that point in time, was being used for remote classes tells you how shit everything else was / is in comparison.
Ease of use shouldn't be confused with ease of setup.
I use discord every day but I am not a gamer so my use case is different.
Schools had to set up classes quickly and use a platform that provided the least amount of friction for students. They likely figured out most kids were familiar with discord over zoom.
I never heard of schools using Discord but it doesn't sound like a good idea. And again, I say this as someone who likes Discord. Using an app that's primarily for gamers and adding school to it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I’m sorry but I have to agree with above: it’s trash
I honestly don't think many power users like discord, specially not what it has become. They are stuck in that ecosystem and the alternatives aren't established enough to get average people to try it out/swap over.
It's a terrible platform that snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by being the only easy to use VoIP client right as Skype was dying.
The nice thing is, the lack of defining features and it's general awful qualities will make it easy to supplant when another true competitor emerges.
I never got the fact that Discord uses the "server" name for what is effectively a hub.
I use Discord every week, when me and my friend are gaming.
Before that we used Steam's built in system, and before that I hosted my own Mumble server.
Discord is decent, it makes it super easy to stream to stream you monitor to others in your hub, that is a brilliant feature.
Steam is fine for one on one chat, a bit more complicated than needed with group chats last time I used it.
Mumble has excellent voice quallity.
I never got the fact that Discord uses the "server" name for what is effectively a hub.
They use the term "server" because it harps back to the days of IRC where communities lived on a single server (or federation of servers). But your right, they should call it communities, and not servers since they're not individually operated servers.
Internally / in their documentation, they actually refer to servers as "guilds".
That is a way better term
