Re:Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs ...
by SunlitCat on Thursday October 09, 2025 @05:23PM
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Which is kinda sad. Way back in the mid-2000s, I was playing World of Warcraft with a few people I had met in the game itself. Later on, we chipped in to rent a TeamSpeak server from a company that offered ready-made servers and we had a lot of fun. You didn’t even have to do much admin work. :(
Re:Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs ...
by giancarlostoro on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:16PM
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You still don't have to do much these services still exist, even for Mumble. Their limitation is scaling. So if you want way more than just a handful of people, you either start charging everyone an entrance fee, or you cap the server.
Re:Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs ...
by dabockster on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:56PM
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Discord's limitation is scaling as well, to be honest. It's incredibly hard to follow a server full of tens of thousands of people. Just because something can scale in a technical sense doesn't mean it will scale in a human one.
Re:Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs ...
by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 12, 2025 @03:39AM
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I'm in such servers, people pick channels, and also slowmode is a key factor to stop people spamming too quickly.
VC is also drastically quieter on average, but can be fun too.
But we're forgetting there that the average person online is not a dev. The most they usually know is how to point and click on something. Which also means they usually don't know how to spin up a Linux machine/VM somewhere and install their own chat server.
Discord is popular because it lets almost anyone on Earth point and click to create a chat "server". If someone can figure out how to do that (eg cPanel), you can absolutely break their moat.