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I avoid discord like the plague, but how does it help with gaming?
Just a voice chat for me and my friends. Can't from Dolby Axon before it shut down, and before that trying to use teamspeak, ventrillo and a few others was painful.
And let's you share some kinks in the chat. So useful for us. Pretty much just a straight replacement for what we used to use.
I have no interest in using it as anything other than just a way to talk to my friends when playing games because in game voice was always so bloody janky.
Not sure why they trying to make it a social media platform but so far it does exactly what I need it to. It's getting kind of bloated for my uses, I don't need bots and a thousand different channels, not am I trying to build anything like a social media following. It's literally just a tool that works for me and the crew