[hosolmaz]

I used to think that way too, but putting it on a social platform has a lot of benefits. New users who don’t know how to write prompts can learn from others and discover new artistic styles and concepts. It brought me up to speed much faster than DALL-E’s web based interface.

[tomxor]

Probably has a split effect. I saw no way to interact without discord, close tab.

[Aardwolf]

I know how to interact with discord, however I read the FAQ channel and it didn't answer the question "where do I type a prompt" or "how do I make it generate an image", so also closed tab

[unsupp0rted]

Same here. I'm not a gamer and Discord isn't a thing in my world. I simply closed the tab.

[corysama]

I’ve been playing with tech like this in various Discord servers for over a year now and I’m still fascinated every day. Knowing how incredible it is and then hearing people say “Sure. But, Discord. Ew.” is a shaking-my-head moment. The Discord interface is far from ideal. But, it has had a very high ROI for the small, low budget team behind Midjourney.

[stavros]

I don't know why. I use the Discord server and don't like it, my messages get lost in the scrollspam and it's just a bad experience. Surely, a text field on the site would have been equally good.

[FractalHQ]

You can click to add the bot to your own server and use it privately with ease. It’s quite fun!

[fragmede]

you don't get to see other's images and talk with them in a shared chat channel with that approach (unless they build out a lot more web app). Which is half the fun of it. (Not that hard to build, but more work than a Discord bot.)

[simsla]

Which is half the fun for /some/ people.

What people are saying (including me) is that it's not fun for them, and Discord feels like a big hindrance instead of a benefit.

[tomxor]

I don't care if it's discord or slack or whatsapp or thelatesthypedapp... I even have a discord account, I just don't understand why the author is introducing extra hurdles, stick it on the open web, that's the lowest friction and least platform dependence.

[m1gu3l]

cool

[tastroder]

I don't know, that might work for some but I would have prefered a webapp with a nice UI instead. I've subscribed for a month but the first time I discovered some of the parameters was just now when someone on HN linked to their docs. Had no idea they even had those.

The flow was invite -> public discord channel with other people that don't know about what prompts work well with their model -> run out of free GPU time -> subscribe -> move to private discord message where none of the social aspect matters.

[fnordpiglet]

This isn’t entirely true - when you move to the chat with the bot you still have access to the show and tell and prompt training channels as well as the newbie channels you started in. But you can create without posting in public as you iterate via the private chat with the bot. I believe the newbie channels even still work for image creation if you really want.

By the way, /help for the bot works. Surely we always try the help flags?

[r_hoods_ghost]

Fair enough, I guess there's value to the social feedback you get in discord and being able to easily see what others have input.

[stavros]

There isn't really, the majority of people in the channels are newcomers, it scrolls too fast for you to really see much, and once you subscribe you move to private and only see your own messages anyway.

I have no idea why they went to Discord, it hasn't provided any benefit to me personally, at least.

[fnordpiglet]

They have show and tell and prompt training channels. If you only hang out in the newbies channel then yes, it will be newbies.

[abhisekumar]

True enough. I totally agree with you. without Discord if it will be normal web portal it will be very nice.