I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.
Versus Slack, it was an easier sign-up process for ad hoc communities. You could just have people sign up instead of going through an approval process. (Slack’s approval process could be automated with third-party tools, but it was a hack. Slack was meant to be a specific group of known people.)
It’s definitely marketed that way, but I’m on a few Slacks that are just small, private groups. It’s private by default while Discord is public by default.
I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.
Versus Slack, it was an easier sign-up process for ad hoc communities. You could just have people sign up instead of going through an approval process. (Slack’s approval process could be automated with third-party tools, but it was a hack. Slack was meant to be a specific group of known people.)
I always thought Slack was just for businesses
It’s definitely marketed that way, but I’m on a few Slacks that are just small, private groups. It’s private by default while Discord is public by default.
because skype was worse
Was it though?
I mean I guess? Aside from the calling it’s fine imo. UI was also easier for me to use
wasn’t the calling the main thing Skype was used for tho?
No. Messaging was just as popular if not more so back when Skype was at its peak.
What did people use before discord?
I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).
Does matrix have a voice/video functionality or is it strictly text chat?
It has video+audio calls but not push-to-talk and there are no “voice only”-rooms or whatever it is discord has