10-28-2016, 11:58 AM
(10-28-2016, 09:22 AM)Lost Rinoah Wrote:(10-28-2016, 04:52 AM)Tanis Wrote: 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Forums cannot be outdated compared to chats, even ones that record posts or have fancy posting privilege stuff.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.
Sorry, i have a propensity for rambling; I'll grant that you make a lot of fair points, but Discord isn't going to shrivel up and die overnight just because you want it too, yes a sudden overnight change like what your suggesting will certainly blow a sizable hole in its active userbase, but it's going to take a lot more than that to kill it off within the time frame your predicting.
As for the processing requirements being only a slight margin better than Skype; a lot of computer users don't really care about that sort of thing, so long as it doesn't bite into their system hard enough to cause noticeable lag.
while i could have worded it more explicitly, i did agree with your point about it being impossible to predict what Discord's successor will be; i mainly disagree with you on how long it will take Discord to die.
Forums will never go away completely, but i don't see any reasonable way they can ever escape the shadow of VoIP services like Discord.