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> but what they've left Reddit with as a differentiator are the communities.

Yeah, I pretty much only use reddit for a few game communities, unfortunately with this change I suspect more and more people will move to discord. It's pretty annoying, but I suspect I'll have to eventually cave and join them when they finally kill old.reddit.com.

>>doix+(OP)
ugh, discord is basically IRC. There's a reason we don't use IRC for everything. I hate that it's replacing everything.

>>idiots+X4
No? It's more like a BB with inbuild live voicechat, streaming etc.

IRC itself doesn't provide a shared history, threading etc.

You could get there with alternative clients and bots (at least if all participants use the same), but calling that IRC is a stretch

>>idiots+X4
Discord reuses the IRC "aesthetic" with "servers", channels and slash commands, but the actual structure of the conversations is much more like a forum.

>>xg15+R9
In what way? It’s still time based instead of topic based.

>>doix+(OP)
>Yeah, I pretty much only use reddit for a few game communities, unfortunately with this change I suspect more and more people will move to discord

Oh boy, I can't wait to have to join a specific game discord for every game I want to play or else be locked out of any community information!

Discords are easily killing a lot of hobbies by sequestering away information. And even when you're told "Oh that answer is on XYZ discord" you have to go in and find the conversation using Discords ever-shittier search function

>>adastr+Ja
I think it depends how the server is structured. You can also have "threads" which are topic-based inside a specific channel.

>>adastr+Ja
You can turn any top-level message in a room into a Thread. I don't ever really see that used though, and I don't believe it bumps the thread when there's a new message (then again neither does Reddit).

>>411111+R7
threading isn't particularly impactful if 90% of discussions don't use it.