my headcanon is that discord only grew popular because they called their communities "servers" and advertised it as being free, so in a time of paying for TeamSpeak deployments everyone went "AWOOGA, FREE SERVERS"
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@freeplay in 2016? eh.@freeplay
In 2016 discord text-chat was basically IRC with some bells and whistles, and voice chat was 'just enough' for TeamSpeak users to migrate -
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Discord has always called it "Guilds" internally, not "Server"/"Servers".
It was purely marketing.@alexia i think it's called servers because it's just trying to mimic irc which gets me a little mad because... well it's one software (that probably distributes load across multiple servers but that's not my point uhhhh anyway) that can have groupings of channels, which itself could have sub-groupings (i think guilds are groupings of channels you can join, and then you can then have other channels you can join inside those which are under their own categories) -
my headcanon is that discord only grew popular because they called their communities "servers" and advertised it as being free, so in a time of paying for TeamSpeak deployments everyone went "AWOOGA, FREE SERVERS"
and now the word "server" has no meaning anymore to that massive group of people@alexia i mean its probably just because it was easy to use, free, and better than the alternatives a lot of people were using (teamspeak people had to pay for and didn't like paying for, Skype)
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@alexia i think it's called servers because it's just trying to mimic irc which gets me a little mad because... well it's one software (that probably distributes load across multiple servers but that's not my point uhhhh anyway) that can have groupings of channels, which itself could have sub-groupings (i think guilds are groupings of channels you can join, and then you can then have other channels you can join inside those which are under their own categories)@pastthepixels
Discord's UI design is very much inspired by IRC, it's like baked into their fuckin' DNA
Memberlist on the right, channels on the left, messages in the space between with no bubbles; Just a list of messages
But if you look at their old webpage, the VERY FIRST THING they advertise is how it's "100% Free" and "Never pay for voice chat again"; They even directly mention Skype and Teamspeak: web.archive.org/web/20150815173719/https://discordapp.com/
Honestly, I should've checked their old websites. It's clear as fucking day they called it "Discord Server" just to shit on TS3. -
@pastthepixels
Discord's UI design is very much inspired by IRC, it's like baked into their fuckin' DNA
Memberlist on the right, channels on the left, messages in the space between with no bubbles; Just a list of messages
But if you look at their old webpage, the VERY FIRST THING they advertise is how it's "100% Free" and "Never pay for voice chat again"; They even directly mention Skype and Teamspeak: web.archive.org/web/20150815173719/https://discordapp.com/
Honestly, I should've checked their old websites. It's clear as fucking day they called it "Discord Server" just to shit on TS3. -
@alexia i mean its probably just because it was easy to use, free, and better than the alternatives a lot of people were using (teamspeak people had to pay for and didn't like paying for, Skype)
@ipg i am specifically talking about how discord called it "Server" when it's anything but
looking back at their archived pages, they plastered it all over their site back in 2015 so I'd say the theory of "they called it Servers publicly only to shit on Teamspeak" probably checks out -
@ipg i am specifically talking about how discord called it "Server" when it's anything but
looking back at their archived pages, they plastered it all over their site back in 2015 so I'd say the theory of "they called it Servers publicly only to shit on Teamspeak" probably checks out@ipg I'm not tryna say it didn't have its advantages in 2015 and onward
I am nitpicking because I am angry about how when I say "Server", people my age attribute it to Discord automatically
Like no, mf, I mean something entirely different stop thinking discord
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@pastthepixels
Discord's UI design is very much inspired by IRC, it's like baked into their fuckin' DNA
Memberlist on the right, channels on the left, messages in the space between with no bubbles; Just a list of messages
But if you look at their old webpage, the VERY FIRST THING they advertise is how it's "100% Free" and "Never pay for voice chat again"; They even directly mention Skype and Teamspeak: web.archive.org/web/20150815173719/https://discordapp.com/
Honestly, I should've checked their old websites. It's clear as fucking day they called it "Discord Server" just to shit on TS3.@alexia @pastthepixels ah "slash commands in the next few months" only took them uhhh six years
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@pastthepixels
Discord's UI design is very much inspired by IRC, it's like baked into their fuckin' DNA
Memberlist on the right, channels on the left, messages in the space between with no bubbles; Just a list of messages
But if you look at their old webpage, the VERY FIRST THING they advertise is how it's "100% Free" and "Never pay for voice chat again"; They even directly mention Skype and Teamspeak: web.archive.org/web/20150815173719/https://discordapp.com/
Honestly, I should've checked their old websites. It's clear as fucking day they called it "Discord Server" just to shit on TS3. -
@alexia @pastthepixels ah "slash commands in the next few months" only took them uhhh six years
@niko @alexia @pastthepixels i mean slash commands did technically exist back then iirc, they were just purely internal commands
(this was before the bot api was even "official")
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my headcanon is that discord only grew popular because they called their communities "servers" and advertised it as being free, so in a time of paying for TeamSpeak deployments everyone went "AWOOGA, FREE SERVERS"
and now the word "server" has no meaning anymore to that massive group of people@alexia@starlightnet.work I still remember this... just thinking about it hurts... the word "server" completely lost its meaning...
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Discord has always called it "Guilds" internally, not "Server"/"Servers".
It was purely marketing.@alexia@starlightnet.work yeah, I've noticed that too
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@pastthepixels@is.potatoe.ca @alexia@starlightnet.work apparently they want to say that an entire web browser has minimal impact on your CPU
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