Discord vs IRC/Forums

Discord is like reinventing IRC with more noise. It's not a substitute for forums.

Discord is a replacement for IRC, forums and mailing lists - not for hanging out in meat-space.

I'm in the same camp, discord and discourse just aren't useful to me

Is Discord any better? It's still a centralized service run by one company, is it not?

How is Discord superior to Slack?

Having not really used Discord, what about it is better to you?

> You either use Discord or nobody comes.WAT? Not even close to true. A lot of people gravitate to other discussion forums. Some even dislike chat-style "communities" that they steer clear. (Someone can find market research if we want to pin it down more.)My summary (exaggerated for effect): Discord is a time waster. Slack is Stockholm Syndrome. GitHub Issues is comfortable. Zulip is lesser-known but great and FOSS.So many of these products have redefined our frame of mi

I think Discord is slowing eating away all other form of online communication as it can be used for such a variety of situations and their API makes it very customizable.The main issue I see is the culture. Discord's community has quite an opposite culture as Slack (free time vs work time) for instance. Being able to have multiple Discord handles could solve that.

Discord users probably disagree with you. (If you don't know Discord is basically Slack + voice, it even looks the same, and is exploding right now.)

discord is just IRC in a trenchcoat. what’s to replace?