Just needed a place to vent but there are more and more people and groups starting discord channels. Honestly, most of these groups would be much better to be Discourse forums. I do a bunch of coffee content creation on Instagram and YouTube and several of the big players are starting Patreon/Discord groups and now MacStories is doing the same thing. This was originally created for live streaming and the chat platform is just hard to follow and have good conversations. Discourse is perfect in many waya and helps start actual helpful and engaging conversations.
Yeah, I could see how live streams could be great. But for the way people seemingly are using it I’m finding it not so great. But yes, I was looking into Discourse to start a “specialty coffee community” and price is the biggest factor into figuring that out.
Completely relate. I find the conversations in Discord ephemeral and uninviting. I much prefer Discourse for engaging conversations and a sense of community.
No opinion on Discord as I’ve never used it. But I hate it when people put a link in their post which immediately subscribes me to their Youtube channel.
Yeah I agree the apps are for two different markets but people treat Discord like what should be a forum. Of course pricing probably has a lot to do with that
Yes, absolutely. I tried following some groups on Discord, and I soon deleted the app as it was just pointless banter.
I’m not a chat person in general, and also refuse to waste time in Slack or WhatsApp. I hate distractions, and much prefer asynchronous communication (except for phone calls and video calls where I can usually solve a problem in a couple of minutes rather than half an hour messaging).
I am with you on this! I pretty much avoid any kind of chat system–Slack, Discord, iMessage (except for my wife and daughters–the latter I have alerts off but don’t tell them! ).
Slack is good for work in agile environments. It tends to keep communication faster and team focused. At our work place it’s replaced email entirely. We just check emails very rarely and they are mostly HR or company wide broadcasts.
Love the threaded messages to keep conversations separate and skip them if not relevant.
Trust me, I love them but they are incessant texters so having them here would result in an overload in the threads. My frequent posting here is bad enough!
Discourse is much better.
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