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by jamager 1264 days ago
Why do communities even move to Discord? I can't honestly understand it. It has the worst UI ever. Does it have some killer feature others lack?
2 comments

1. Old people do not use it.

2. Very responsive, searching for previous messages takes seconds.

3. I remember back in '17, most other VOIP and especially video calling services sucked. Discord made gaming with your non-techie friends with a crappy laptop plug & play.

4. Lack of censorship (at the beginning).

5. Good UI when it was released compared to its competitors.

6. Gaming Centered Nature back when that was not common and/or alternatives were complicated and clunky (TeamSpeak).

7. Very good integration of GIFs, meme emojis, and the like.

8. Old people do not use it.

A bit of ageism? Perhaps “old people” simply have better things to do than play video games and share juvenile jokes with their anonymous Discord “friends”, attempting to demonstrate their coolness. I would suggest that age or any other demographic category, whether race, gender, sexual preference, etc. constitutes a poor metric by which to judge the merits of a technology platform.
I don't see too many young people on Facebook, is that ageism too? I was replying to the question why do communities move there, and I think that's one of the reasons.
I can absolutely see that the UI is better than Facebook groups if that is the alternative. But I would like the Reddit style community UI more if that was an option.