> For limited definitions of 'preserves' if you aren't a paying user.
You might be thinking of slack. Discord preserves unlimited scroll back for everyone.
> Not really, you can't tell who pinged you half the time
Which is still an improvement over IRC.
> (and this is a common complaint from most everyone in a discord server with 70+K members.)
And how does a 70K user IRC channel handle this?
> Limited ones unless you get a bot to add in granularity (such as duration of moderation action.)
They recently added "Timeout bans", and other features to reduce the need for bots (regex actions that will auto-filter, flag or timeout on match).
Which is far more than IRC offers without needing a bot.
> can think of a few HTTP chat sites from the late 90s that had better moderation for all users
But discord isn't competing with HTTP chat sites from the late 90s. It's competing with IRC.
> I should note IRC had video chat functionality with pIRCh98.
I don't really think you can use a propriety feature of a single (obsolete) client to defend IRC.
It really doesn't matter what did what first, or what IRC could theoretically do if you extend it. The only thing that matters to users and communities is the that the out-of-the box experience for discord today is far better than the out-of-the box experience for IRC.
You might be thinking of slack. Discord preserves unlimited scroll back for everyone.
> Not really, you can't tell who pinged you half the time
Which is still an improvement over IRC.
> (and this is a common complaint from most everyone in a discord server with 70+K members.)
And how does a 70K user IRC channel handle this?
> Limited ones unless you get a bot to add in granularity (such as duration of moderation action.)
They recently added "Timeout bans", and other features to reduce the need for bots (regex actions that will auto-filter, flag or timeout on match).
Which is far more than IRC offers without needing a bot.
> can think of a few HTTP chat sites from the late 90s that had better moderation for all users
But discord isn't competing with HTTP chat sites from the late 90s. It's competing with IRC.
> I should note IRC had video chat functionality with pIRCh98.
I don't really think you can use a propriety feature of a single (obsolete) client to defend IRC.
It really doesn't matter what did what first, or what IRC could theoretically do if you extend it. The only thing that matters to users and communities is the that the out-of-the box experience for discord today is far better than the out-of-the box experience for IRC.