In Search of a Discord Replacement

This is the first of these write-ups that touches on (but still doesn't manage to fully formulate) the vast feature set that Discord has and how many different groups of users use it.

I think that's the main point. Some things you can basically only use in one way (or somehow misuse as a solution for your own problems) but for Discord just in my light use I see these things that may or may not overlap:

• working voice with PTT for 30 people
• screen sharing or streaming games to < 10 people
• community of 1,000-10,000 people, with or without voice (voice for 30-40 is usually enough)
• community of up to 50 people (these usually could easily move elsewhere)
• open source project communities that are only on discord because everyone is there, zero use of any feature that discord does better than others (also personally my pet peeve, the content should be out in the open and not in the walled garden)

Maybe we'll simply see several exoduses to different platforms, based on people's needs, not a 1:1 replacement like the freenode-libera event.

Interestingly I'm also still in some very old pre-Discord Slack communities, where the loss of messages after 3 months is not a huge deal. Doesn't mean I am advocating for Slack, but some things I kinda like better than on Discord.

Then again I'm apparently certified old because I've been on IRC for 25 years and find it ok, I'm on Slack and find it ok, and although my Discord account is from 2015 I've never loved it.