[bsder]

I really don't understand the folks fleeing to Discord. A mailing list does 99% of the same thing for most of the communities.

Sure, if you want to chat while gaming, that's the whole point of Discord. Ganbatte.

But, for everything else, Discord is such a horrible misfit that I don't understand why it's the default.

[AuthAuth]

You are booming out. I cant believe suggesting a mailing list

[bsder]

You gave an ad hominem attack with no substantive response. I can do that too: "Your account is less than a year old and is AI slop farming."

Mailing lists are old, boring, boomer tech. Ayup. They are. And they work.

However, Zoomer, if you must have Teh Sh1ny(tm), then explain to me why a Discourse isn't a better choice?

Discord is the anti-Pangloss; it is the "Worst of All Possible Worlds".

[zahlman]

> I don't understand why it's the default.

Because it equally well supports real-time communication.

And it looks shiny.

And some people use it to e.g. watch a video together, or other social purposes.

[order-matters]

i predominantly use it for real time chatting, its a big group text chat and a place to hop in a voice channel and shoot the shit while doing whatever we want on the computer a la ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak

but yes i also game and it gets a lot of use for that as well

i agree though that for collecting and organizing information longer term like forums do, it is not ideal