Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoDiscord Alternatives, Rankedtaggart-tech.comexternal-linkmessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1403arrow-down121
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minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down1·4 months agoNo, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
minus-squarejcorvera@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 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.
minus-squareexist@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 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
No, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
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.
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