points by SahAssar 3 days ago | 0 comments
But in those cases people actually hosted a server, right?
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?
[–] anonymous908213 3 days ago
[–] 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.
But yes, a Discord server is equivalent to a Slack workspace. It's just inherited terminology.