Mojang is a pretty big player that has jumped ship. I'm just wondering if this might be a catalyst for others that have been on the fence about leaving.
Its iffy, while I dislike what Reddit is doing (sort of the reason why I'm here). It is a bit questionable since now they are directing people to their tech support site for conversation I guess the only saving grace is there is a minecraft forum that isn't official. Since its best not lose sight that there has been some controversy recently against Mojang and Minecraft about them monitoring player's chats and other interactions and banning people from being able to use private servers. Like I can get them banning people from minecraft realms since those are the "official" servers but it is a bit much to have them possibly banning people from private servers who are the ones doing the hosting responsibilities. I am not saying this to be a "free speech abolitionist" since that is a silly path to go down in a black and white manner, I fully support Lemmy.world and Kbin de-federating with exploding heads since the garbage they were posting were seen and affect the larger fedeverse or whatever its called but with the defederation, explodingshead still exists in its own space where they can do whatever they want but a full proper deletion of that is a bit more objectionable. So to cycle back I just see Mojang overstepping their boundaries and not respecting their players to make an informed choice, I'm all for a accessible banlist that private server can choose to enforce but its problematic for them to have to enforce it when the server hosts should have the right to do as they wish since they are spending the money for the hardware to host said server.
I feel like I date myself every time I tell people I want to go back to forums. It's why I liked reddit so much, and prefer Kbin. Small threads on topics are so much easier to follow than a 3,000 message chat interaction with 200 different topics strewn together.
Discord is by far the worst alternative. Not only is it worse than a reddit style forum, it has the same "eventually needs to make a profit" corporation ontop of it and when it goes to shit all the information there goes with it because unlike reddit Discord can't be archived.
Yep, I honestly don't know why it's popular outside of making voice chat parties with text / image sharing as a backup.
As a community communication tool, it's a big mess. Just a glorified version of IRC which is hard to follow and search. The lack of archiving just makes it that much worse.
It’s popular because it was one of the better ‘gaming’ voice chats to come out back in the day. Skype was garbage and teamspeak was a bit more difficult to use for people not that tech savvy, I’m speaking from experience here. It was a pain to try and help some friends get on it and understand how it worked. Discord was easy to get people set up on and it was relatively sleek.
Now a days there’s plenty of other options beside it, I’ve been dabbling on guilded and the new teamspeak is actually pretty solid UI wise. Steam voice chat is legit great, at least for only a couple of people at a time. I haven’t limit tested it though.
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