10-28-2016, 09:22 AM
(10-28-2016, 04:52 AM)Tanis Wrote:(10-28-2016, 03:34 AM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: I think discord is a fad, and will eventually have a reckoning when reality hits and someone somewhere realizes how expensive it is. Then something I cannot predict will happen. I, well, I can't actually say I've been wrong before. I can't remember the last time I was.. Beh.
In any case, I'll use it, but I don't trust it in the slightest and treat it like a virus, keeping it partially quarantined at all times and closing it and quarantining it entirely when not in use.
Fads are called such because they burn out and die within a few months maybe a year or two; id say Discord is far too entrenched at this point to be written off as a fad; Discord will eventually decline, of that i have no doubt, but it may be years yet before that happens, and when it does, it will merely be replaced by a new rival, just as Discord did to forum sites like this.
Personally i prefer forum sites, but the cold hard truth of the matter is that for most people, Forums simply cannot compete with Discord.
Why did you feel the need to explain what a fad is? I know, though thanks for attempting to be informative.
Unfortunately, discord is not entrenched in the slightest. It's treated like the "newest big thing!" still despite how long it's been around. People still don't know about it all over the place, People including myself and many others I see don't want to touch it out of paranoia and automatic distrust of anything whose only actually true advertisement is "it's free!!!" (The other main statements about it are false or overstated massively, being only 10% more efficient than skype, when looking at all related discord processes including the hidden ones as an example)
It has no basis for a future, especially once they start running it on add revenue or other methods. This is where I'd pointed my statement of it being expensive. Someone has to pay for all that data storage and all of those "servers". Especially with all of the different information they'd be required to store. It's not free. Nothing ever truly is. Something's going to happen, I can't claim what, good or bad, or when. When it will die. All I do know is that it does not look promising in the slightest. I'm not good enough at math to go beyond this on prediction and pattern recognition.
Forums cannot be outdated compared to chats, even ones that record posts or have fancy posting privilege stuff. As a forum allows much more intricate and formal or informal use of writing technique. Encouraging longer more meaningful and thought out posts than "hello everyone" "Hi there" "How are you doing" "Fine" It's not a guarantee, but it's something. Whereas on chats it tends to look like nothing more than clutter and encourage having the attention span of a lombax. They also allow people from differing time zones to speak more efficiently than chats or instant messengers tend to be able to.
I prefer them as well for conversation and social interaction. As chats are like having your friend over at your house compared to over the phone. For me.