Some of the smaller channels were cool, and I dug "the people's podcast" for the first few days, but yeah. The discord as a whole takes the concept of a "stream of consciousness" and upgrades it to a firehose of consciousness. Say something and it is lost to the scrollback and lost forever in a half hour.
"Firehose of consciousness" is a very good description. I also saw someone call it an "endless twitch chat", which I found very descriptive, because there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it's useless to have a conversation, or any kind of coherent dialogue.
Discord is best when there's like 30 people maximum, above that it's too much, but with a small group it feels like having a conversation with your friends.
I spend quite a bit of time in the gaming channel and that's pretty cool. Other smaller channels have very little participation or too much, but that one is just right.
The discord is devastatingly impersonal and transient. I don't know how anyone can stand it.
Some of the smaller channels were cool, and I dug "the people's podcast" for the first few days, but yeah. The discord as a whole takes the concept of a "stream of consciousness" and upgrades it to a firehose of consciousness. Say something and it is lost to the scrollback and lost forever in a half hour.
"Firehose of consciousness" is a very good description. I also saw someone call it an "endless twitch chat", which I found very descriptive, because there's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it's useless to have a conversation, or any kind of coherent dialogue.
Discord is best when there's like 30 people maximum, above that it's too much, but with a small group it feels like having a conversation with your friends.
Yeah, then it is pretty much a more organized group chat, with voice channels and streaming. That's exactly where discord shines as a platform.
I spend quite a bit of time in the gaming channel and that's pretty cool. Other smaller channels have very little participation or too much, but that one is just right.