Technology
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7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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I never got the appeal of Discord anyway, after a while it simply becomes a dump of notifications that I cannot follow up on.
You can mute servers or chat channels inside servers. People like it because it is nice looking, has all their favourite emojis and gif memes. And decent voice chat.
It's also one of the better instant messaging applications, and it's great for community interactions.
To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room's history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.
why not just use forums for questions
Because they don't always exist.
I agree, even if it is much more active and has quite good ways to catch up on past conversation, the notifications and various icons and unusable emoticons make it feel bloated.