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🎆 Launched: How Discord Dominated Gaming
-Discord is a centralized company.
Packy McCormick • Discord: Imagine a Place
While Zoom, Teams and others focused on building teleconferencing features — breakout rooms, Q&A, integration with work tools, transcripts, that sort of thing — Discord has continued drilling down on quality and latency.
David Pierce • How Discord (Somewhat Accidentally) Invented the Future of the Internet
Roberto Blake, an Atlanta-based YouTuber, compared Discord not to Slack but to “chat rooms from the 1990s.” But, he told me, “they made that experience mobile and way more robust and sophisticated.” In a social-media landscape organized around reverse-chronological feeds, profile pages, default public content, and follower counts, Discord is palpab... See more
Taylor Lorenz • How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream
For Mark Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley mates, the fundamental problem of communication was putting the most resonant message in front of an individual at the most opportune moment.