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disconnectikacio@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not really. At the beginning it was amazing. It took 0 resources to run while gaming and the call quality was miles ahead, nevermind the flexibility around servers and what you could do with them.

  Then, as all things, it turned to shit once ot gained market share.

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  • disconnectikacio@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was an embedded browser embedded website crap since i know it (since 6 years), like m$ crap

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well yes, it was, but it worked, and it was still better than everything else. I’ve been on discord for 9 years.

      Embedded browsers aren’t necessarily bad design. They’re super fast to develop, and if done well, can work super efficiently. A browser can have a billion tabs open and work just fine. The same can go with an electron app given that the devs give 2 shits about optimization.

      Though if the Discord team doesn’t care about optimizing the electron app, they wouldn’t give a shit about optimizing a desktop app either.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it was useful when it was new and there were no alternatives as easy to use.

  Now it feels like commercialized app slop that wishes it was actual social media.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had to run a server for work. It was right after they put in boosts. At the time, I had to buy my own fucking boosts one at a time.

  The whole platform only exists because they made the api easy enough that people could build on it.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You run a Discord server for work? I thought my company using Google was crazy.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      When your job has communities that spring up around it, you either get there first, where you can work with the users and help steer, or just sheepishly join in the community efforts.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather “feedback” and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.

      Although I’ve done that before too.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        we fall back to IRC :)

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