The weirdest thing about this all will be when we see if and how it affects servers like OTT. Only if they are set to “adult content” (or what ever discord will call it) non verified users will not be able to access them any more. Otherwise nothing will change. For now. I think. Maybe.

I was looking into stoat. I’m not going to go scorched unless I find a decent alternative.

I think the in real chat is the big one for me, the gaming side of things with streaming don’t really care. It’s more about the communities that I have set up for war gaming including heaps of local clubs that are already set up on this discord. I used to…[Read more]

Depends on what you are looking for in regards of use case. Discord is (in parts) so successful because it merged different things.

Want a text based chat? IRC

Want a voice chat? Jabber(XMPP) or Teamspeak

Want video calls/conferencing? Here trouble lies. There are things that work (Nextcloud Talk, Jitsi and some others) but nothing as simple as…[Read more]

I keep hearing news about this but no alternatives provided. Anyone care to list a few that are not going to invade my privacy?

Not that I would ever give any personal info to discord, but they’re simply needs to be a viable alternative before I move everything over.

Conveniently with all announcements they missed this detail.

Given how everything has been going up from north stars + warlord/mantic prices to StarCraft minis at gw rates, realistically I don’t think it will change much.

I’ve only seen what’s in the box but I missed the price. Will it be as costly as the current one?

The new fallout sets just announced could fill that gap for you

“Spend more money! The economy needs it!” XD

(it won’t of course but a man can have dreams)

Same

I thoroughly detest discord and am hopeful this will drive people back to forums (it won’t of course but a man can have dreams)