Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Why did everyone decide to abandon Discord with its full-featured UX for Telegram which, besides being Putin’s personal surveillance network or whatever, is just a serious PITA to use? Cramped, under-organized, fish-market vibes. Complete with general stinkiness. Worse, newer apps seem to emulate it as though it’s some sort of aspirational gold standard rather than an avoidable shit standard. Not sure why, but despite their own problems, slack and discord feel like being in a spacious building while telegram feels like being in a black hole/boiler room. The move is like how we all gave up on TV and started consuming video on phones. I think it’s because the “organization” abstraction is missing. The “community” type group with groups within just feels even more cramped. Like a new fishmonger squeezing in among existing ones.And the channel abstraction is crap. Discord’s only real drawback is the huge VC funding overhang which will undoubtedly drive them to dumbass revenue moves soon.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. It's subpar on mobile where most consumers spend free time 2. Once you join too many groups, nearly impossible to manage the flow of information
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rafa
@rafa
It doesn’t have a consolidated custom feed. It assumes each space is independent, but that’s not how it works on the participant level - you participate across communities and Discord doesn’t seem to understand / design for that. Works well if you are part of wholly distinct manageable interest communities (2-4),,, but really we live among dozens / hundreds of them. So Discord breaks. Farcaster imo gets this with channels and recent design choices.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Bingo
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