List Your Shooters, Part IV

[Clay Pigeon]

Packard bell.

Yea me to, 2 meg hard drive 18,800 AOL dialup for 9.99 for 10 hours.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Ok so what is discord? This is the 3rd time someone has mentioned it here, is it a chat room type deal or what

 

[Ballstater98]

Ok so what is discord? This is the 3rd time someone has mentioned it here, is it a chat room type deal or what

Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for video gaming communities, that specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Discord runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in web browsers. -Wikipedia

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Ok so what is discord? This is the 3rd time someone has mentioned it here, is it a chat room type deal or what

Yeah pretty much. There would be a "server" called INGO, for example. Within it would be a bunch of channels, much like the categories we have on the forum... guns, politics, general, etc... and in each of them, it's just a chatroom for the most part. You click on channels to jump between them, it retains everything from the beginning of time, easily searched. See a list of "online" members.

It's used to join a bunch of different communities, like specific games or hobbies.

Here's a screenshot I found online to give you an idea of the UI.

Left is the servers you've joined, so that would be where "INGO" could be, for example. Just to the right of that is the list of channels within the currently selected server. To the right of that is the contents of the selected channel (#General, in this case) of people talking. To the right of that is the list of online/offline users of the server.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Yeah pretty much. There would be a "server" called INGO, for example. Within it would be a bunch of channels, much like the categories we have on the forum... guns, politics, general, etc... and in each of them, it's just a chatroom for the most part. You click on channels to jump between them, it retains everything from the beginning of time, easily searched. See a list of "online" members.

It's used to join a bunch of different communities, like specific games or hobbies.

Here's a screenshot I found online to give you an idea of the UI.

Left is the servers you've joined, so that would be where "INGO" could be, for example. Just to the right of that is the list of channels within the currently selected server. To the right of that is the contents of the selected channel (#General, in this case) of people talking. To the right of that is the list of online/offline users of the server.

Thanks for the screenshot! That helps a lot. It sounds and looks like an updated version of IRC, but with an persistent memory that saves everything. The voice option would be nice too. Is this a free system to be a member of? And is it also free to create a server? An ingo discord would be kinda legit if we had some way to limit who could join to only trusted/long term members or something. Doesn’t even have to be “associated” with ingo if mods didn’t want it to be, could just be a place for “Indiana gun enthusiasts” or something of the like.

Edited to add: If that ever became a thing, GP and CM or somethhing would have to be the admins of the server. I’d be all for that. Maybe in the future that could be discussed to work the kinks out and become a thing.

 

[Expat]

One of the draws of IRC was the lack of permanent record and the ability to set up a new channel on the fly.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

One of the draws of IRC was the lack of permanent record and the ability to set up a new channel on the fly.

I thought if you joined a channel that didn’t exist it automatically created that channel? I may be thinking of a different chat tho

 

[Expat]

I thought if you joined a channel that didn’t exist it automatically created that channel? I may be thinking of a different chat tho

Yes, that is what I was saying. You could create a new channel and on some servers require a log/pass to get in.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

Yes, that is what I was saying. You could create a new channel and on some servers require a log/pass to get in.

Oh ok I gotcha, I misread your post sorry. I’m not sure how discord works cause I’ve never used it, but IRC had amazing abilities. Especially for it’s time. I loved being able to create a channel and have your group of buddies break off and do whatever, while still being able to participate in the main/other channels simultaneously.

 

[Expat]

I had never heard of discord before.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Oh ok I gotcha, I misread your post sorry. I’m not sure how discord works cause I’ve never used it, but IRC had amazing abilities. Especially for it’s time. I loved being able to create a channel and have your group of buddies break off and do whatever, while still being able to participate in the main/other channels simultaneously.

And they had a /whisper switch so you could send something in the channel only to one person.

 

[2A_Tom]

We need a runner.

 

[Sigblitz]

There was this one time, at computer camp....

 

[hopper68]

We need a runner.

Some enjoy playing with runners too much!

[video=youtube;EoKz-ilaZiA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKz-ilaZiA[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Some enjoy playing with runners too much!

[video=youtube;EoKz-ilaZiA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKz-ilaZiA[/video]

It's all fun and games, till you turn 30

 

[Clay Pigeon]

Yep, I think I had AIM at about the same time as I had ICQ. Oh and I remember those AOL cd's you could get to install it for free or some such. "You've got mail."

Aol version 1 and 2 were small floppys......

 

[Clay Pigeon]

There was this one time, at computer camp....

And you found Alt.binaries.newsgroups

 

[femurphy77]

[video=youtube;q_BU5hR9gXE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_BU5hR9gXE[/video]

 

[2A_Tom]

+10

 

[actaeon277]

And you found Alt.binaries.newsgroups

alt.binaries.redheads, I might have heard of it.