14 minutes ago, conundrum said:

I use Discord sometimes, but I wonder how they make their money…

By selling their Nitro products like stickers emojis etc. they’ve always supposedly intended the base product to be free

14 minutes ago, conundrum said:

I use Discord sometimes, but I wonder how they make their money…

Discord Nitro. It’s a few bucks a month and enables a ton of fun features (like using emojis across many servers)

22 hours ago, swiesma said:

Discord is great. It’s a great tool for communication, organizing things, has great addons for example for WoW Raidplanning etc. 

Not so much for file downloading….

 

edit: lol. Took me 2 minutes to find the Download link in discord. Really not so complicated if you can read and click. 

I disagree and think it’s the worst tool for communicating.

Like I said, it’s based on the 1990’s message board style. Very old fashioned and behind the times. It’s a complete jumbled mess and often you wait just as long to a reply as a forum.  It’s not as laid out as nicely as a forum and much harder to scroll back through a zillion pointless comments that don’t interest me. 

This reminds me about a discussion here a while back where people did not like Twitch because they were expecting YouTube style format. Now people access Discord and expect a forum format. Just use the tools to do what they are made for and I am sure you will learn to love them. 

Discord isn't exactly complex or hard. Sure if you are new to it, it may take a moment to get used to how it works but once you have joined your first server you will get to grips with it easily. It's a pretty handy communication tool and is used by a lot of people nowadays. You can easily keep in touch with your friends in your own private server and then join other community based servers for things you have an interest in (Example: Flight Sim or a specific developer who has one or if you are part of a Virtual Airline then a lot of those have discord servers as well these days).

Edited August 22, 20214 yr by Zangoose

1 hour ago, Doug47 said:

I disagree and think it’s the worst tool for communicating.

Like I said, it’s based on the 1990’s message board style. Very old fashioned and behind the times. It’s a complete jumbled mess and often you wait just as long to a reply as a forum.  It’s not as laid out as nicely as a forum and much harder to scroll back through a zillion pointless comments that don’t interest me. 

It’s not really intended to replace large forums like this. It was targeted at small gaming groups like my WoW guild where you have maybe 50 people and it replaced using teamspeak for voice and clunky forum software for communication offline. It works great for that. For large projects like FBW or 3rd party devs like and ORBX or PMDG not so much due to the potential user base. It’s also down to how the admin sets up the channels to organize things 

Honestly, I pretty strongly dislike Discord, too.    But it's not because I'm a luddite or uncomfortable with text chat services -- I was exploiting netsplits to cause mayhem on IRC years before Discord was a mote in anyone's eye.   No, it's because Discord's UI is utter garbage, somehow managing to shove too much noise in your face while still hiding the useful stuff behind mystery meat navigation.   Example:   take someone who's never used Discord before, put them in a voice channel, and ask them to leave it.  See how long it takes them to figure it out.

Slack, honestly, while it has its own failings, is much more pleasant to use.   But it's also expensive and doesn't have the easy integration of voice comms, though, so you takes the good with the bad.

My bigger complaint, however, is the replacement of forums and knowledge bases with Discord, which I think is what @Manny was most complaining about.   Asking me to join your Discord server just to download something is kinda dumb, IMO -- it's a good service for discussion, but not for information retrieval.  It's also a problem in indie game development, which makes heavy use of Discord for communications, to the point where many indie devs no longer even offer a forum for discussion.   This means that finding any historical information is almost impossible, because the important stuff gets mixed in too readily with the trivial chat, and it's all impossible to find outside of the rather cruddy text search which is really not meant to be used to find "that one useful post from 5 years ago".

(This is also part of why we offer channels other than Discord for support of WT stuff.   Practice what you preach.)

 

 

 

Edited August 22, 20214 yr by kaosfere

4 hours ago, kaosfere said:

Discord's UI is utter garbage, somehow managing to shove too much noise in your face while still hiding the useful stuff behind mystery meat navigation

This is exactly my perception of it.  The UI is an assault on the eyes.

The only Discord channel I've ever joined was for a X-Plane developer called Mad Flight Studios.  They were incredibly helpful and responsive on there but the whole invitation system is a fussy mess. The invitation expired and needed to be resent etc, etc. Also, I needed to go back and re-check the tech support response they'd given me, the next day.   That's when I discovered the joys of scrolling up and up and up and up...... to try to find a single post. 😄   

4 hours ago, JYW said:

That's when I discovered the joys of scrolling up and up and up and up...... to try to find a single post. 😄   

There is a search box at the top right......

On 8/22/2021 at 10:09 AM, MarcG said:

Flight Simmers, perfectly alright flying incredibly technical aircraft but fall apart when trying to use a chat room....you couldn't make it up 😆 😜

You win the internet!

A mashup of IRC and Roger Wilco, with a bad UI. Some things never change. 

19 hours ago, Doug47 said:

I disagree and think it’s the worst tool for communicating.

Like I said, it’s based on the 1990’s message board style. Very old fashioned and behind the times. It’s a complete jumbled mess and often you wait just as long to a reply as a forum.  It’s not as laid out as nicely as a forum and much harder to scroll back through a zillion pointless comments that don’t interest me. 

Lol?!

Name a better tool for gaming / communicating. 
Only because some use it the wrong way (for tech support eg which you don’t do in a chat with 500 other members) or you don’t get used to it and still live in 1990 doesn’t make it bad. 

Edited August 23, 20214 yr by swiesma

8 hours ago, Reader said:

There is a search box at the top right......

That’s too complex for some. 

There is guides on the Discord site if it's really that hard for people: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045138571-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Discord

I do not like Discord…..

Tried it 2 times because of a download and it was terrible and very unfriendly to use.

If I want to DL a file I do not want to join a kind of WA / Twitter / Facebook / whatsoever mix 😩