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this is the first piece of writing that has made me aware therefor is not a misspelling of therefore.
no one has ever used it in anything I've ever read. what the fuck that's a word?
in my head the difference is "therefore" feels past/present tense, and "therefor" feels present or hypothetical future tense
as in "there but for the grace of god..." with less hesitation i suppose lol
pronouncing is different emphasis too. "thereFORE" vs "THEREfor"
I enjoyed the article immensely, and agree with the points on VC funding leading to feature creep
… until people realize that growth will not happen and the company goes under, which feels like it could have been the closer, instead of the discord rename thingy, which felt a bit … longish? Like I felt the examples before that were a bit stronger.
I was hoping for a mention that Discord essentially implemented part of a petname system, missing out on the (in my mind) crucial “global ID as telephone number” aspect.
But nonetheless, really enjoyed it!
running up against my limitations as a writer, haha!
i was unaware of this 'petnames system' but reading it now and it's nice to know this concept has and has had a name! companies seem to be working backwards to justify making something exist which, really, shouldn't exist in the first place.
the discord renaming event was a pretty massive deal at the time, but it seems the discussion around it has cooled with time. so now with hindsight, it does take up a lot of the piece, even with how much i cut. that said, the way i see it, we're still in the collapsing stage of discord; it feels dishonest for me to end on a note of users jumping ship when that is definitively not happening. at least not yet.
perhaps the original ordering of the posts worked better for that? talking about discord alternatives second. they work as examples of both the ills of chat platforms in general but also to the point that, there aren't good alternatives right now.
regardless, thanks for the constructive criticism, and glad you enjoyed!
fwiw I think you made a strong argument that anything VC sponsored is fundamentally not viable in the long term (often even in the medium term)
Very well put together write up, thank you for covering this. As a casual Discord user I'd mostly swatted away these pop ups, but I didn't realize just how much he has been pointlessly added. The VC churn sucks so much; bless cohost for avoiding that.
part of why i wanna keep doing the work here. there are people to talk to here, stories to read, input to get! all without the filter of 'of course we also know we're funded by this so we can't talk too much shit'
compiling afterwards is good, but the real conversation happens where the people are :>
Great piece, thank you for expanding on the username issues.
Also, a note on Teamspeak's comparison board, their listing of multiple audio codecs is strange since those have all merged into OPUS for years.
So what are we gonna move to? Hmm? I hear doom and gloom all the time, but nothing about mobilization. This seems like a Twitter situation, we just need someone to explain what unseen or unused alternatives are out there already.