Thread 106276843

When you have more than 5-7 people in a conversation it becomes almost impossible to follow. Despite this, people do not use it for voice chat, they use it for the chatroom aspect. Why?

I've only used it for WoW raiding and guild and it worked ok. Multiple rooms keep the chats cleaner and on topic, voice chats mostly work, game overlay makes it visible who is speaking.

I've used Telegram, Teams and Slack at work and they are far worse desu.

>>106276843 (OP)
>Why is Discord popular?
Advertising.

Because people are too stupid to host their own ventrilo servers so they sell all their data to discord instead.

>>106276843 (OP)
Because it still feels personal. You are still the captain on board.

>>106276843 (OP)
>it becomes almost impossible to follow
That's a feature. Zoomies moved software support from issue trackers to Discord so you can't tell how many unfixed bugs there are.

>>106276843 (OP)
Immediate gratification. you make a post and people instantly reply. You have to wait longer on forums and boards. They don't really care if they can follow other people's conversation, because they're self-centered. That's why people prefer instant messaging in general. As for why they prefer Discord, it was marketed to gamer types, who are dumb and easily manipulated. And let's be honest, the centralized services are way more convenient for normies than IRC and Matrix.

>>106276843 (OP)
>When you have more than 5-7 people in a conversation it becomes almost impossible to follow.
That isn't true.
>people do not use it for voice chat
This also isn't true.

Why did you make up easily disprovable lies and post them here?

>>106276843 (OP)
Cute velvet worm

>>106276931
ChatGPT says you are wrong

>>106276921
Is there any empirical evidence of any of the claims you've made here, or is this all just a hunch you came up with in your brain as a consequence of your self-importance?

>>106276954
Where does ChatGPT say I'm wrong? Your screenshot doesn't claim impossibility at 5-7 whatsoever.

>>106276843 (OP)
>velvet worm
did you know that velvet worms give live births, have social rituals and hunt in packs? They are also descendants of a pre-Cambrian organism. They've been around for longer than did the fish. Makes you think.

>>106276961
Just stop talking, you lost.

>>106276975
No I didn't. Your post didn't even contradict anything I wrote.

>>106276961
He owned you bro, just give it up.

>>106276983
>He owned you bro
Where?

>>106276959
This is 4chan, of course I'm gonna spitball and theorize. Do you expect me to provide scientific citation with each claim? You're trying too hard to sound smart lil bro.

>>106276990
>of course I'm gonna spitball and theorize
This answers the question I asked. The rest of your post is irrelevant blabbing.

>>106277018
This is just isolated demand for rigor. Something about my post really hurt your butt, because there's no way you go around doing this to every post on here that doesn't provide scientific evidence with each claim.

>>106277028
I didn't "demand" anything. I asked you if you had a source, or if you made it up.

You answered that you made it up, which answers my question. Are you confused about what the word "demand" means? Did you just decide you needed to be a victim in our interaction?

>>106276843 (OP)
>Why is Discord popular?
I don't know
they shilled it to gamers and since that's all zoomers do it stuck

>>106276975
>>106276983
Post skin tone.

>>106276843 (OP)
>do not use it for voice chat
>only chatroom aspect
/v/ermin use it for the voice chat and screencasts all the time. They also make channels to be stickies with links to moded stuff, wikis, files to play around with. If the server's dedicated to a creative game, there's a gallery channel showcasing creations, if the game's a multiplayer, chances are you get a channel for game invites, and many have bots to calculate stuff for you like it's an inferior scratch buffer with a pre-built lib (the graphics part's better though). It all makes a nice walled garden of domain specific info with a dedicated toilet chat for shitposting, easy to setup and easy to consume, that's why it's popular.
Only chat channels are retarded - but booda booda boom, it's an inherent flaw of chats not specific to pisscord. Irc and streams are similar.
>t. zoomie

>>106276843 (OP)
Network effect and seeming more modern than TS/Mumble

it was explosive astroturf shilling following the death of skype
then people found out you could form high school cliques

>>106276843 (OP)
I only use 50-10000 people discord servers, and even on the larger end there will only ever be a handful of people typing in a channel at a time.

Much larger discord servers, or discord servers with no clear purpose, will just be full of spam though I'd imagine.

>>106276971
They're just like us!

>>106276843 (OP)
I have never used Discord in my life. I have, however, used Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Raytheon's In-house platform and for what I know about the zoomer's discord, every single one would be better than this peace of garbage.

>>106276843 (OP)
>>106276843 (OP)
Zoomers

>>106277687
yes, grandpa, we know you love outdated boomer shit.

>why do people use discord
>Yes I am using it by the way

>>106276843 (OP)
I mean its kinda sad that you don't have friends it shouldn't be that hard to understand
If your only understanding of discord is huge severs with thousands of people you're just an out of touch boomer

>>106276843 (OP)
Having a "server" with permanence is free. That's all it took.

>>106276843 (OP)
nearly every discord server i've ever seen, is pretty much like irc, a bunch of empty channels with people lurking and no one actually talking. maybe 1/10 1/20 servers are active. of the active servers maybe 3/10 are real organic discussion instead of bot spam

>>106276843 (OP)
>everybody uses it
>you can set up your own server without paying a dime, don't even need to host it yourself
>everybody uses it
>easy way to share pictures
>everybody uses it
>really easy to set it up and configure even without technical skills
>everybody uses it
>everybody uses it
Might be forgetting something but it just werks™ for what it's supposed to do and 99% of users don't give a shit about their memes and chats getting logged.

>>106276843 (OP)
because its easy to use

>>106276843 (OP)
it's for faggots and autists

>>106276953
I made it even more cute lmao

>>106278785
Ugly piece of shit

>>106276843 (OP)
I don't use it, but your criticism applies to any chatroom. Chatrooms were always inferior to forums.

>>106277063
You're like a child's idea of what an intelligent person is.

>>106279886
Are you sure you're not talking about yourself?

>>106276843 (OP)
Convenience and marketing of it's early days + typical mechanism of social media where people stay with shitty social media because it's used by people.
You cannot replace Discord because current Internet users are there, for good or worse. It will die either through some internal bullshit, or because next generations of online users will start using something else.

>>106279922
I'm curious what kind of evidence you expected me to provide. That some p prefer instant gratification, or that it played a part in the popularization of Discord specifically? Or that centralized social media platforms tend to be more popular than decentralized ones?

>>106280059
this, the main thing is network effects. communications software gets more useful the more people use it. it emerged because it was a free and at the time superior alternative to teampspeak/ventrilo.