I find it amazing how very different the user experience is for me compared to so many others. I hate(d) Discord; in fact I deleted my first account there a while back - then, a few months after I was back to Skype full-time (instead of having to run a resource-hogging Chromium browser to deal with Discord), one of the sites I'm on said that they wanted to make all off-site comms come through Discord. I tried it for a single week. I have since deleted that account as well.
Skype, on the other hand, has never once given me a problem. Calls are fine, such as I need them. The text chats for both group and private work well. The client is decent enough on my computer that I can at least run a YouTube video at the same time, or play a game. Heck, I've even done screen-sharing. Trying that with Discord caused my computer to just freeze up and then eventually crash when it figured out how to even do that.
I have tried using Miranda to connect to Discord as well as IRC, but the connection is unreliable and there's no way to tell Miranda "download messages from x time ago".
So you can say it's very much on track to its namesake. All that Discord has done is create just that amongst the groups of friends I have online - chaos and discord.
And on that same note, where's the Pastafarian response to these SubGenius and Erisian derived communication methods?
Seriously though, if Slack and Discord replace Skype and IRC, that will be the end of the age of IM for me.
Skype, on the other hand, has never once given me a problem. Calls are fine, such as I need them. The text chats for both group and private work well. The client is decent enough on my computer that I can at least run a YouTube video at the same time, or play a game. Heck, I've even done screen-sharing. Trying that with Discord caused my computer to just freeze up and then eventually crash when it figured out how to even do that.
I have tried using Miranda to connect to Discord as well as IRC, but the connection is unreliable and there's no way to tell Miranda "download messages from x time ago".
So you can say it's very much on track to its namesake. All that Discord has done is create just that amongst the groups of friends I have online - chaos and discord.
And on that same note, where's the Pastafarian response to these SubGenius and Erisian derived communication methods?
Seriously though, if Slack and Discord replace Skype and IRC, that will be the end of the age of IM for me.