Are specialist forums dying?

[adam cool dude]

Discord is the one that really makes me feel old. Can only just about work out how to voicecall 2 of my mates on it. Tried joining a group on there once and didnt know if I was coming or going.

I think people get stuck in their old ways. I was on a course of 20+ people on teams and because I was busy all week I did it on my day off on my personal pc. I was the only one that couldn't be put into a breakout room because my teams wasn't up to date. Yet you can guarantee all my hardware drivers are all up to date or on latest beta files!

My daughter goes on about Instagram and Tiktok like it is some foreign language and I am only 34 yet comes up for advise when it is gaming or software. I was also the same with discord. When Wow classic released I met up with all my old guild mates. When I went looking for ventrillo they all just went silent!

 

[robgmun]

It's not you guys, Discord is a ******* mess and unnecessarily convoluted to do the most basic things. The UI is counter-intuitive and god knows how it got so popular

Reddit is child play compared to Discord

 

[Narj]

It's not you guys, Discord is a ******* mess and unnecessarily convoluted to do the most basic things. The UI is counter-intuitive and god knows how it got so popular

Reddit is child play compared to Discord

Discord drives me nuts with all the GIFs and stuff, unnecessary noise and also trying to post code snippets and stuff is a nightmare due to the way it escapes stuff :/

Still prefer IRC tbh - and I'm still a member of some very tight-knit IRC communities.

 

[adam cool dude]

All they needed to do was merge IRC with ventrillo. Would have been perfect.

 

[krooton]

I've noticed the gaming forums here on OcUK have become very quiet the past couple of years, which is a shame. There's not much chat about smaller games or general news stories related to gaming.

Most games get their own subreddits these days, plus Steam forums, so tend to be better resources.

 

[R4z0r]

Never got on with reddit or FB groups, much prefer forums. Would be really sad if this one ever went away.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Discord is the one that really makes me feel old. Can only just about work out how to voicecall 2 of my mates on it. Tried joining a group on there once and didnt know if I was coming or going.

Heh I spend way to much time on there. I was the same as you until I had to join up for something or other. Now I think its great.

(Used to be in IRC way back when havn't been near it in a very long time)

Reddit, you can swear, and look at bobbies!! Lots of subreddits tailored to specific hobbies so I go there mostly.

Not sure why you want to to look at pictures of policemen whle swearing, each to their own I guess...
can't stand reddit myself especially the default look/layout which most groups are

Discord drives me nuts with all the GIFs and stuff, unnecessary noise and also trying to post code snippets and stuff is a nightmare due to the way it escapes stuff :/

you can mute any/all servers if you wish. Code is ```...

 

[Deleted member 77746]

There's official and unofficial discord channels as well as multiple overclockers IRC channels.