▲ 965 ▼ Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 7 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (5 children) Honestly I'll just go back to IRC. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) What was the main problem that eventually made everyone move from it ? I remember back in my teen days it was Teamspeak, Skype and IRC. Somehow I got by with mostly Skype so don't have much experience with it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago IRC has no support for rich media, voice or video calls, and if you want offline message receipt you need to roll your own solution, of which there are billions. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago There wasn't one. They're still around and people still idle. Discord is the same thing but with added features like voice, photos, gifs, and other services. Under the hood, it's just updated IRC with analytics permalink fedilink source parent [–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago Matrix can bridge to IRC permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) What was the main problem that eventually made everyone move from it ? I remember back in my teen days it was Teamspeak, Skype and IRC. Somehow I got by with mostly Skype so don't have much experience with it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago IRC has no support for rich media, voice or video calls, and if you want offline message receipt you need to roll your own solution, of which there are billions. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago There wasn't one. They're still around and people still idle. Discord is the same thing but with added features like voice, photos, gifs, and other services. Under the hood, it's just updated IRC with analytics permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago IRC has no support for rich media, voice or video calls, and if you want offline message receipt you need to roll your own solution, of which there are billions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago There wasn't one. They're still around and people still idle. Discord is the same thing but with added features like voice, photos, gifs, and other services. Under the hood, it's just updated IRC with analytics permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 1 point 7 months ago Matrix can bridge to IRC permalink fedilink source parent