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Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users
www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-bringing-back-age-verification-for-millions-of-users
Replying to @Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world
Discord is perhaps the most unnecessary and readily replaceable service and they don’t seem to realize how short their time is
Replying to @spacegoat@lemmy.world
readily replaceable
I think the last time they tried this showed just how NOT replaceable they are. Every alternative lacks critical features or is still so deep in development that a workable, scalable product is still years away. And that’s not even touching the difficulty of getting people to move.
People switched from mumble and teamspeak to discord because it offered more features and worked better in all but a few edge cases. In the years since, nothing else has been developed that even comes close to matching all the things it does. If you think it’s as simple as slapping together a VoIP program with a chat feature, you are vastly underestimating what every day users would want.
Replying to @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
Sable already offers most of the features of Discord, even ones otherwise locked behind the Nitro pay wall.
What’s more difficult is getting people to move. There’s always excuses, and nothing is EVER going to be the exact same as Discord. So the excuses become progressively more granular.