I'm a random commenter with a chip on his shoulder.
<grumble> Please escape Discord links so people don't accidentally click a live one and thereby expose data to Hammer & Chisel, Inc. </grumble>
It's a constant slap-in-the-face how prevalent Discord is in the tech community. Need support with an obscure library? Discord. Want to talk to contributors for a project? Discord.
I honestly don't know why people so greatly prefer Discord to IRC. The interface? Network effects? Whatever it is, Discord and H&C are disgusting, and I pray the tech community finds a way to escape it.
Fill you in on what? I'd be happy to, I'm just missing context.
Also, it's so disheartening to see people tout Discord's interface as its 'killer feature.' As far as I'm concerned, if I can't mold it into a decent TUI for my terminals, it's okay at best. If an app actively resists its interface being molded, however, that's just evil.
Why I Hate Discord (A Manifesto) [Without Sources]
Discord is aggressively proprietary.
People ought to own their data, but Discord's architecture ensures everything gets hoovered into the mother-ship. At first, this was for nothing more than to facilitate their client-server communications model; recently, all of the hoovered data gets submitted to their AI moderation platform. (searched for sources on this but it was very hard to find anything. I remember talk about this ~c. Nov 2020, might be wrong)
I should be able to modify an interface to my tastes. Modifying Discord is explicitly against their ToS, including their interface; attempting to do so will lead to a ban. Don't like their painted whore? Prefer to chat from your bespoke terminal? GTFO, Hammer & Chisel knows what's best for We Peons.
Addenda: I find Hammer & Chisel developers and Discord admins to be disgusting. This is hearsay & personal opinion from my time hanging around the developer chats, but they all came across as nasty people. I, personally, believe many of the news reports surrounding the grooming controversies; searching "Discord admin controversy," "Discord allthefoxes controversy," "Discord cub policy," &c. turn up some relevant articles. Most of these articles are from low-quality reporting shops, but I buy in to the narrative.
<grumble> Please escape Discord links so people don't accidentally click a live one and thereby expose data to Hammer & Chisel, Inc. </grumble>
It's a constant slap-in-the-face how prevalent Discord is in the tech community. Need support with an obscure library? Discord. Want to talk to contributors for a project? Discord.
I honestly don't know why people so greatly prefer Discord to IRC. The interface? Network effects? Whatever it is, Discord and H&C are disgusting, and I pray the tech community finds a way to escape it.