points by unethical_ban 3 days ago | 0 comments
For people who were used to Ventrilo and mumble and teamspeak, the concept of "server" is well understood and Discord is essentially a voice/chat server as a service with unified identity.
[–] SahAssar 3 days ago
[–] anonymous908213 3 days ago
98% of the people hosting "servers" of any kind in the world are not actually running hardware, everything is timesharing compute on a hyperscaler's computer now.
But yes, a Discord server is equivalent to a Slack workspace. It's just inherited terminology.
[–] bluefirebrand 3 days ago
My understanding is a lot of residential isps would be angry at you for running servers of a substantial size out of your house anyways?
[–] unethical_ban 2 days ago
Correct, they are not hosting. It's a service. Still, an admin of a Discord "server" has complete control over the server - access, permissions, roles, etc.
[–] voxic11 3 days ago
For what it's worth I never actually hosted a ventrilo server either, I always just paid a service to do it. Pretty much the same experience as discord is today.
[–] cowlevel 3 days ago
That's correct. Discord co-opted established terminology for its own ends and it was very successful.
[–] vfosnar 3 days ago
i think it sorta comes from user slang, they call it, or at least used to call it "guilds" instead of servers
In discord it's more like a slack workspace, right?
The people "hosting" a discord "server" are not actually running hardware anywhere that runs the server?