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[–] 18 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

A lot of gamers actively chose this.

When the teamspeak debacle happened due to the license change a lot of players left out spite and instead of choosing the logical route to independence (like foss alternatives) many went directly to the then soon rising discord to suffer differently in another golden cage.

I will never understand (I chose mumble/murmur).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm not here to stan for Discord, it's pretty crappy. But at the time it first hit the scene it was the killer support app for gaming.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It wasn't. It just copied slack when it was becoming popular in the dev work world with a marketing blitz. It coincided with team speak sudden death. Slack did most of the marketing and discord bandwagoned on it as the fun slack for video games. Which in essence was just "what if IRC but with voice chat rooms."

    Video game support wasn't part of Discord intent until people started using it for it. Then they hacked the UX nightmare that is their solution for something the app was never meant to do.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    There's a lot of rationalization there. It was simply the best technical product with lots of killer features when it was rising. People used it because it was the best solution at the time, don't kid yourself.

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