[sqeaky]

> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it

I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advance they wouldn't refund him or give him his account back. The API is bad too.

I use it purely because of the network effect. The people I want to communicate with use it, and the instant that changes if Discord isn't better then I'm out.

[llm_trw]

>Their customer service is a nightmare

Having customer service would be a step up.

>>We banned your account for illegal activity.

>But I just signed up and tried logging in?

>>After review we have banned your IP forever for illegal activity.

[juped]

You got an actual useless automated message? The lucky 1%.

[marcus_holmes]

What's the point of banning an IP address?

[michaelt]

I love Tor - but the exit node IP addresses do not have a good reputation, because they're a source of a lot of misbehaviour.

Sure, 'serious' attackers have botnets of home users' PCs and insecure IoT devices and whatnot. But because Tor exit nodes are easily used by even unsophisticated attackers, they quickly get flagged as sources of abuse.

[draxil]

Some people (like me) have a fixed IP for their internet connection. Although this isn't super common any more.

[marcus_holmes]

Yeah, it's really only tech folk who have fixed IP addresses, and they're usually too busy futzing around with servers to post shite on social sites ;)

Most IP connections are dynamic, and always were. Assuming that a person is synonymous with an IP connection makes no sense to me.

[Tijdreiziger]

For most dynamic IP connections, as long as your router doesn’t go offline for days on end, you keep the same IP; so in practice your IP (almost) never changes.

[Kiro]

While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.

[plufz]

I feel sort of ehh the same but also the opposite. I feel with both slack and discord that they are a little better than IRC. But that I so easily can see those features being implemented in IRC and I feel really sad history didn’t go in that direction. What if IRC had became the standard in the same way email did. IRC was so great and I miss it. I know ppl still use it, but I don’t even think I have a client anymore.

Learning to program as a kid in the 90s and getting that 28.8k modem with direct chat access to adults at Apple and later Sun/Java was amazing.

[multjoy]

What, owned by a single company and monetised within an inch of it’s life?

[emmet]

I would have loved to pay monthly for IRC Nitro™ back in the day to use… uh, forbidden ascii art?

[layer8]

People who liked IRC will generally like Discord. However, there’s a lot of people who prefer asynchronous forums.

[stevage]

Agreed. I like almost everything about discord. I just wish it did threaded replies in a more low key way.