Everyone is using it because everyone is using it.
When a platform gains Discord’s level of ubiquity, it doesn’t need to actually be good any longer. People will just keep on using it because that’s where everyone else is.
I feel like it very much was better at the beginning, though?
Discord kinda came around as an alternative for IRC and Teamspeak all rolled into one, where people could get the rooms and servers style of IRC with voice and chat all rolled into one, with the convenience of persistent messages and self-administration. Not much else was doing that at the time.
So we’ve ended up with Slack being IRC for business, Matrix being IRC for nerds, and Discord being IRC for gamers and everyone else.
Everyone is using it because everyone is using it.
When a platform gains Discord’s level of ubiquity, it doesn’t need to actually be good any longer. People will just keep on using it because that’s where everyone else is.
Yep. The Facebook Effect.
But no one was using it at first. It’s not like Discord was always there, or any sort of better at the beginning.
Discord was overall way better than the other options at beginning. The only way it was worse was slightly higher voice latency
I feel like it very much was better at the beginning, though?
Discord kinda came around as an alternative for IRC and Teamspeak all rolled into one, where people could get the rooms and servers style of IRC with voice and chat all rolled into one, with the convenience of persistent messages and self-administration. Not much else was doing that at the time.
So we’ve ended up with Slack being IRC for business, Matrix being IRC for nerds, and Discord being IRC for gamers and everyone else.