Maybe you've seen an overwhelmed server owner break under the pressure and nuke their entire community server, booting everyone and wiping entire channels. I suspect "I can't believe this had to be said" is a sentence painfully familiar to any community manager, amateur or professional.Įven if you've never seen someone learn about internet toxicity in real time, you've almost certainly been in a server where the owner forgot to take away permissions for members to in chat, leading to a nightmare surge of notifications. The rules channel had evolved rapidly and haphazardly, leaving no doubt that the server's creator was feeling a bit harried by their sudden small town-sized community of 15,000 members.
Why does a glorified devlog need a memes chat? (It doesn't.) The sidebar was already stacked with text chat channels for support, tutorials, and co-op, but also for memes, cats, and food. Given Elden Ring's popularity, I wasn't surprised to find the place packed. In the first frantic week after Elden Ring's launch I was hunting down CheatEngine tables, one of which was only being distributed on the creator's Discord server.
"Discord replaces forums" is just three words to start a fight with me. But Discord servers are not forums-they're the overwrought descendants of the guild Trello and Skype combos that I once frequented as an MMO player. These days you can customize your avatar and name per server, and side conversations can be pulled off into threads to avoid clogging a chat. I've watched those original 2015 servers shut down, and I've visited the wastelands of brand new Twitch streamer servers-sidebars of 20 preemptively created chat channels, all desolate.ĭiscord has made an effort to move beyond gaming with features targeted at taking on forums. Everyone watching is already in their own 41 servers, and getting any of them to treat yours as their main social space is a more difficult pitch than ever. It doesn't anymore: in 2022, your livestream probably doesn't need a server, either. We were all so fed up with Skype and Facebook groups and subreddits that Discord felt magical. If you've ever been annoyed by duplicate issue threads on Reddit or a forum, know that Discord is far worse.īack in 2015, Twitch livestreamers were some of the earliest adopters of Discord as a community space for their fans. Bug report channels are chaos: developers and modders get flooded with complaints about bugs, then discussions of the bug, and then 10 more people reporting the same bug.
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