Re:How Discord Won
by wlesieutre on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:15PM
(#24832126)
> they are only good to sync between devices
As an occasional discord user: yes, exactly. That's how Discord syncs communities and read messages between my phone, tablet, and computer, either via app or web client.
This is a huge convenience over say IRC where (last time I looked) the way to get any client-side consistency is to run a personal 24/7 relay on your own server and use special clients to connect to that instead of the main IRC server.
Which is the setup equivalent of not wanting a Dropbox account because "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."
As an occasional discord user: yes, exactly. That's how Discord syncs communities and read messages between my phone, tablet, and computer, either via app or web client.
This is a huge convenience over say IRC where (last time I looked) the way to get any client-side consistency is to run a personal 24/7 relay on your own server and use special clients to connect to that instead of the main IRC server.
Which is the setup equivalent of not wanting a Dropbox account because "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."