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Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
kotaku.com/discords-second-attempt-to-roll-out-age-verification-is-going-badly-2000737908Replying to @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
Yet the entire software community depends on it for everything
Replying to @chunes@lemmy.world
I really don’t understand how a chat app for gamers became so big in the software development community. It’s such a poor choice, especially for support. Nothing is indexed in search engines, and people can’t see messages unless they join. I’ve even seen some projects use Discord for bug tracking. It’s woefully inadequate for that.
before Discord there was Teamspeak 3, Ventrilo and mIRC. Discord at the time brought file sharing, video calls and more polished UI at the time when all of it was not found on TS, but Skype and facebook messenger was around. Me and my friends used TS, but jumped to Discord because it was better almost in every way (apart from sound codecs). If TS devs had not been so oblivious and inovated fast enough, we would have stayed