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Discord

It's been brought up multiple times, and QQ does not need a Discord channel. We have a forum and an IRC, and Discord offers no concrete advantages for QuestionableQuesting as a forum when compared to an older, more stable system such as IRC.

Discord does offer voice chat, but QQ does not have the need for a dedicated voice chat server. If we do require one, then a better voice chat program such as Teamspeak or Skype.

For a text chat, Discord is also lacking. It lacks control+f search functionality and an easy way to manually download conversation history, both of which a basic browser-based IRC client supports, and as IRC is a mature technology there are many desktop and smartphone clients that add much more functionality. There are also issues with Discord as a service. There are many issues that occasionally crop up with connection that require system resets or software re-installs.

In short, it is the opinion of the staff that QQ does not need a Discord channel.
 
I wouldn't feel safe having notifications on for a QQ discord, and I wouldn't actually be able to engage in discussions on it comfortably without any sort of notifications.
Frankly, I use it only because some people I talk to find it convenient.
 
gibbousmoons said:
It's been brought up multiple times, and QQ does not need a Discord channel. We have a forum and an IRC, and Discord offers no concrete advantages for QuestionableQuesting as a forum when compared to an older, more stable system such as IRC.

Discord does offer voice chat, but QQ does not have the need for a dedicated voice chat server. If we do require one, then a better voice chat program such as Teamspeak or Skype.

For a text chat, Discord is also lacking. It lacks control+f search functionality and an easy way to manually download conversation history, both of which a basic browser-based IRC client supports, and as IRC is a mature technology there are many desktop and smartphone clients that add much more functionality. There are also issues with Discord as a service. There are many issues that occasionally crop up with connection that require system resets or software re-installs.

In short, it is the opinion of the staff that QQ does not need a Discord channel.
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Amen to this.

I'd be less opposed to Discord if they allowed us to plug IRC clients into them and we weren't forced to contend with the blasted client that Discord uses. As I can't stand that thing.

Plus, there's the fact that Discord has no way of making money at the current time, so it's likely in the future if the guy who owns it doesn't sell it off, as he has a history of doing so, we could see it becomes laced with adverts or something like that. Which is lame.

Anybody with a functional brain should be able to quickly set up an IRC client with auto login functions. Heck, there's even free bouncer services out there that alleviate issues with it not saving the history. IRC is easy, if the argument for not using it is that it's "Hard" then I seriously question how you function a computer in the first place, as that's honestly really damn dumb.
 
As is obviously the case by the content of this thread. This is not a My Little Pony thread. Do not attempt to drag it off topic.
 
Psyckosama said:
Don't care.
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Whatever you say now Baldy.

Biigoh said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)

Not the goddess, not the thing that people created in the modern day, but the internet chat software...
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Thanks.^_^

At least -somebody- bothered to give a link explaining it now.

I appreciate you clearing up the confusion on this subject now.

gibbousmoons said:
As is obviously the case by the content of this thread. This is not a My Little Pony thread. Do not attempt to drag it off topic.
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Stop accusing me of stuff I ain't guilty of. :angry:
 
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You seriously have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
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Because I do?

Discord has taken literally MILLIONS in startup funds. If you seriously think that the investors won't want their money back, along with the actual costs of running the thing on damn AWS, which costs a fortune, then YOU have no idea what you're talking about. Emoticons just won't cut it for what people plan to use it for and OTHER business ideas that have operated along the same principles have failed in the long run.
 
After using it for more than a year, I can easily say that Discord is the future. The very fact that it has 2-factor authentication puts it miles ahead of IRC. Since the thread happened, It's gotten search among other features (and a much richer search than, at least, mIRC or the web irc clients I know of). Cross-platform support is 100% free unlike irc cloud, and is implemented far better. You don't need to use the client to log in. Making your own server is piss easy. Inline pictures (that can be disabled if you want.)

Emojis are a neutral thing. You swim in them or you hate them. You can have custom ones, though, which works out fine.

It's obviously not without it's downperks: Joining a server means you show up in it, even when totally offline, unless you leave it. You can't customize your notification sounds. You're limited to a mere 2mb per picture upload unless you go Turbo. There have been brief outages, but nothing more than an hour or so, at least to my experience.


All that said I gotta say that the whole 'it succ up the resources' thing seems either wrong or something else was playing a part. I've never seen discord come up to or past 100mb in heavy use of ram usage, and at idle...

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I should mention i'm in 43 servers, and im mainly active in 8 of them. Most of the rest are mainly special interest or video game servers where I can get questions answered fairly simply.


You know at the end of it all I don't really know why we don't just have both and see which end up working better for whomever. It's obviously not going to split the forumbase since the origin is the forum in the first place. It's free, after all.
 
IRC is a specified protocol with multiple client and server implementations. Anyone can host a server, and anyone can write a client with arbitrary functionality. Currently we use Freenode, but if we wanted to change it, we could go to a different host with minimal disruption.

Discord is a Web app provided by a single company, operated via an opaque API. You're limited to the client they provide, and only they can host a server. Should there be some issue on the server end, we would have no recourse, and would have to stop using Discord.
 
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