Tivo Discord

Why?

BTW, both links crashed. Windows 10 with IE11. Works with Edge.

 

Beat me to it. Kids like the discord so they can swear and yack at each other about nothing. I don't see why adults that own homes and Tivos would need one, but to each his own.

 

I guess the fact that this is the first I've ever heard of Discord makes me officially old. Eh, I'm OK with that.

 

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Discord? Is that when you throw away something?

Oh wait..thats discard

 

TCF *is* TiVo discord.

 

i sign into Discord for some low-traffic special interest communities. I'll give your links a try later tonight.

 

I cant stand discords

 

And this is different than many other online communities and forums (this one included) how?

Of course adults (in your usage) would probably use slack, teams, or spark (or one of a number of alternatives) rather than discord, but everyone communicates differently, and while I happen to have my own preference order (and discord is far far far down that list), I respect that others have a different way to interact, and it is not impossible to imagine that discord will be where all the cool kids end up discussing TiVo next week (and I would need to accept that that would be the final confirmation I never was, and never will be considered, a cool kid, and would never be sitting at their channel. And to paraphrase NashGuy, I am OK with that).

 

So what is the advantage of Discord over all the other forums around?

 

the links work -- as copy-paste into the Discord app on my desktop. I will never use the voice/audio feature, so it's just a glorified IRC* to me. I think Discord is mostly popular with gamers who want to watch each other play video games and have a parallel chat window and integrated stream. Also, "kids these days" seem to prefer vocal conversation over typing text.

One advantage of Discord over IRC is that the conversation is logged when I'm not there, so I don't miss anything. An advantage of Discord over a forum** is that people can chat in real time as a group or take it to private instant messages rather than waiting to refresh or reload a forum thread. (And people on forums hate it when you create a long page of replies for a casual conversation.) The advantage of Discord over Slack, etc., is that I'm already running Discord and not Slack.

In the olden days of watching TV shows live, having a place to chatter and speculate about a show with other fans was very popular. I personally don't feel the immediate need to discuss my TiVo Premiere with others in real time.

*IRC = internet relay chat, a group chat room protocol

**My old-lady brain kept wanting to call it this a BB, but do kids these days even think of a forum as a "bulletin board" anymore? Ahh, history.

 

One advantage of early places like CompuServe were moderators (sysops) who were mostly conscientious and deleted stupid before it escaped to the rest of the world. But volunteer editors/moderators was never an entirely sustainable model as things grew in scale.

 

I was a sysop on CompuServe back in the day. I created and ran the Consumer Electronics Forum for 12 years. I miss those days.

 

Oh, you mean like a phone call????

 

How did we ever survive before we had all these modern internet social networks? Answer: quite well!

 

This guy created a bunch of these on various forums. I would imagine there is an agenda

 

anyone can set up a discord.

 

I use the ubiquiti networking equipment discord and a few others. so there is a valid use case even for old folks like some of us here. Though i have noticed the one thing this community hates is any form of change - lol.

Basically discord is great for anything that demands realtime back and forth, notifications, etc and is great way to create community relationships. It is not great for persistent / searchable information.

I suspect they only agenda the person has is they like discord communities. Gawd this forum is a little tin-foil-hat wearing at times.

 

yes it is a glorified IRC / BBS whats old is new again ;-)

 

whats the difference between the two - two seems superfluous...