• PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • PringlesCaliphate [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "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.

      • cgplover [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • PringlesCaliphate [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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.

    • ProfessionalSlacker
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      4 years ago

      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.