Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoDiscord Alternatives, Rankedtaggart-tech.comexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkDiscord Alternatives, Rankedtaggart-tech.comBeep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square80fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoNo, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
minus-squareexist@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoUsers (and I think Discord too) call the communities servers, and channels are the individual topics/threads in a community. It might not make sense from a hosting perspective but people do call it that
minus-squarejcorvera@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThe older terminology, which is still used in the API, was a lot better. It was Guild. It was a Discord Guild. Probably because Stanislav was working on it after he abandoned Guildwork.
No, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
Users (and I think Discord too) call the communities servers, and channels are the individual topics/threads in a community. It might not make sense from a hosting perspective but people do call it that
The older terminology, which is still used in the API, was a lot better.
It was Guild. It was a Discord Guild. Probably because Stanislav was working on it after he abandoned Guildwork.