if you’re in you’re early-mid twenties and they fucking suck, i promise they fucking suck for most people because it’s the time when you are really figuring out who you want to be how you fit into the world who you should surround yourself and it’s mostly misfires and painful learning experiences and reckoning with your childhood and learning to heal your deep wounds, it’s a very very painful transformation process and it doesn’t really end as you get older, you keep growing and learning, but you learn more and more the tools you need and you can equip yourself with them in times of hardship and find the spaces where you belong that can hold you
Kotaku making a rare good post (even if many others have said it already) - the transition from forums to Discord is the transition from an open, archived, searchable internet to a fleeting, cloistered, and real-time-only internet.
When you realize in hindsight the Megatokyo Forums were peak internet infrastructure…
Just to add:
https://www.pcgamer.com/please-enjoy-discord-while-its-still-good/
The loss of Groovy reinforced an anxiety that I’ve been feeling for a long time: The Discord we have right now cannot and will not last forever. Our server has a new music bot, Rythm, that’s about as good as Groovy, but for how long?I’ve been thinking this ever since they added a nitro gifting button right next to the picture button.
I like discord today. I know it won’t last.
I have such a desire to create and make wonderful things and such limited patience and skill to do so