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by dartos
770 days ago
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> Gone are the days when the "owner" of a channel or name was the person who got there first (or the person who was friends with a server admin) That’s exactly how discord servers are made > clever customizable scripts that would alter the entire interface to be closer to one's liking, a wide choice of clients While not official, discord has several third party clients.
The discord client is an electron app, so it’s just using discords api. Not to say discord is perfect or the be all end all, but it shows a strong trend back towards real time interaction and away from posts.
I hope matrix picks up when discord starts playing ads. |
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But Discord "servers" are completely different things compared to either IRC servers or IRC channels.
"Apples and oranges have similarities" is a cool story and all, but they're still apples and they're still oranges.
>While not official, discord has several third party clients. The discord client is an electron app, so it’s just using discords api.
IRC never really had this "official" or "first-party" problem to contend with at all. After it escaped the University of Oulu, people all over were creating their own incarnations of both clients and servers -- and running them independently, without centralized control. (This happened over the span of only a few months.)
>Not to say discord is perfect or the be all end all, but it shows a strong trend back towards [...]
...something that is useful and fun, and that is not like IRC.