Discord is Quietly Building an App Empire of Bots (theverge.com) 29
Discord has been quietly building its own app platform based on bots over the past few years. More than 30 percent of Discord servers now use bots, and 430,000 of them are used every week across Discord by its 150 million monthly active users. Now that bots are an important part of Discord, the company is embracing them even further with the ability to search and browse for bots on Discord. From a report: A new app discovery feature will start showing up in Discord in spring 2022. Verified apps and bots (which total around 12,000 right now) will be discoverable through this feature. Developers will be able to opt into discoverability, once they're fully prepared for a new influx of users that can easily find their bots. Bots are powerful on Discord, offering a range of customizations for servers. Discord server owners install bots on servers to help moderate them or offer mini-games or features to their communities. There are popular bots that will spit out memes on a daily basis, bots that help you even create your own bot, or music bots that let Discord users listen to tunes together.
App Empire of Bots (Score:2)
Worst RTS game -- ever. :-)
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I'm getting the feeling it is basically an IRC chat server with a cleaner interface?
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Basically correct.
But no idea why you call it IRC - it is a modern chat environment, not a primitive IRC.
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Truly spoken by someone who knows nothing of IRC :) If there's something it isn't, it's primitive. Complicated, clunky, old school perhaps, but not primitive.
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I used IRC for 20 years.
It always was primitive. Only roughly better than "talk".
If it has changed last 15 years - who cares. I don't.
So much to: "knows nothing" - idiot.
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Must be tough when someone points out how egotistical and myopic you are.
Nope, actually not.
A) I'm convinced, I'm neither
B) I do not care about other peoples opinion about myself
What about you?
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I do not care about other peoples opinion about myself
You readily admit to what I'm accusing you of and some how you attempt to twist that as a positive? You must think lemon juice makes you invisible. LMAO
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You readily admit to what I'm accusing you of and some how you attempt to twist that as a positive?
You should try it.
Be yourself.
Why bother about opinions of some idiots about you?
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Why bother about opinions of some idiots about you?
You are the other side of the alt-right coin. Dismissing everyone you don't agree with. Inventing your own reasons to discredit everyone. Calling everyone idiots. Assuming you know everything. Thanks for making the world a worse place to be :(
I'd rather not be an intolerant and belligerent asshole, thanks anyways.
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Dismissing everyone you don't agree with.
That is wrong. Double wrong.
a) I do not dismiss anyone
b) I only despise people who either fail at logic or have no education - or common sense.
Re:App Empire of Bots (Score:4, Informative)
Its not just text chat. Its more like slack or teams. Its got voice, webcam, screen sharing, etc.
Its competitive advantages are adding your own server is free and low friction, and you can connect to a server via the web client with just a url, without the need to install anything.
Yo dawg heard you like Botz (Score:2)
Yo dawg heard you like Botz. Hope you be all botty-bot-botten with all yer botz.
Botz!
(Old me remembers memes of Apps)
Nothing will ever beat (Score:2)
eggdrop
I remember when they were called IRC (Score:3)
Eggrop
Why is this news? (Score:3)
Bots have been used for decades in IRC.
So Discord has bots. BFD. **yawn**
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IRC has chat bots - yawn.
Discord has HTML pages as bots, with a database behind to record user interaction - yawn. E.g. calendars etc.
No idea why idiots want to compare 1990 IRC with a modern chat system and its bots.
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IRC has HTML pages as bots, with a database behind to record user interaction - yawn. E.g. gpg identity verification, calendars, collaborative streaming, order books that powered the first bitcoin exchanges, etc.
No idea why idiots want to compare a re-invented and corporate driven system with IRC which has stood the test of time.
Here's another fun fact for you to dismiss: Facebook runs their entire deployment through IRC bots. Deploying the world's most used software is probably too boring and primitive for
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Deploying the world's most used software is probably too boring and primitive for the likes of you though.
Facebook hardly is the "world's most used software".
No idea why idiots want to compare a re-invented and corporate driven system with IRC which has stood the test of time.
I did not. You did.
And internet relay chat is not the same as Discord/Slack or what ever. Even if IRC now can do HTML. My latest IRC client could not. And no one who is actually old school IRC user ever would want that. So no idea what
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Facebook hardly is the "world's most used software"
the most popular website in the world that reaches more people than any single thing? There are people that think the internet is only Facebook. You are stupid as you are helpless. But you can pat yourself on the back for having enough time to tell everyone how wrong they are. You win by default - because no one can tolerate your presence for long. Good luck with that.
the most popular website in the world that reaches more people than any single thing.
yet somehow you are also impressed by discord's bots that are "html pages"? you pick the arguments that suit you. This must be why you have t
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the most popular website in the world that reaches more people than any single thing?
Is most certainly banking software.
Your point?
yet somehow you are also impressed by discord's bots that are "html pages"?
You are silly. What is "impressive" about HTML pages? You lost me somewhere.
This must be why you have to advertise your credentials - no one wants you and you have to advertise to get jobs. lmao :P Did you hack my linked in account :P ?
No idea what this is supposed to mean
Music Bot Whack-A-Mole (Score:3)
or music bots that let Discord users listen to tunes together.
These bots are particularly useful, but they're now being targeted by YouTube for copyright violations. Rhythm bot, which was shut down recently after a C&D, had 30 million active users. Of course, 10 more music bots have sprung up in its place. And so it goes.
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A bot playing a youtube song is not violating any copyright.
It is just the same as if the user clicks on that same song on youtube.
If anyone is violating a copyright: it is youtube, or the uploader, or both.
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Google confirmed to The Verge that it took action in this case: “We notified Groovy about violations of our Terms of Service, including modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes,”