GhostedIC

joined 1 year ago
[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Discord got big in online gaming because they offered a VOIP and text chat browser cliemt. Just copy or type the short link and you're in in a minute. They also did free hosting which was huge.

Compared to Teamspeak or Ventrilo, literally just eliminating the steps of downloading a client, installing it, and typing in an IP address caused them to explode overnight. Also you could "host" without changing router settings (most kids/students have to ask their parents or jump through hoops for this).

Technically there was stuff like Skype but that never had the convenient team speak style chat rooms to drop in and out of freely.

Within months of suddenly getting popular, discord had a huge userbase that everybody was using already, and that momentum got us to the point where in some aspects its even replacing the role of wiki's and forums even though its terrible at it.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago

And they killed most of their Jewish population! Wait...

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago

This sounds like subtitles for a DVD commentary track, which were probably supposed to be a separate subtitle track but weren't for some reason (or your player defaulted to them alphabetically).

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd be angry if you told me 4chan had an "algorithm" too... It had a raw ass bump order and that's it (does that reward rage bait? Kinda yeah but so does any activity metric). Algorithms design to guess what posts you want to see are the worst part of modern social media which refuses to just show you all of a user or group's posts in order.