Discord... What is it for?

See title.

(And is it successful?)

AFAICT Discord is mostly used for social interaction among gamers. It has real-time features sort-of like Zoom or chat, and more permanent delayed interaction features sort-of like forums.

It seems to "stretch" pretty well. When the school my daughter teaches at sent everyone home last March, her initial efforts at doing "remote learning" were done over discord, and it worked pretty well (though some of her students were shocked to notice that their teacher played games...) (the school later settled on Zoom, though.)

And her sort-of wedding ceremony over Discord also worked pretty well.

I don't consider the Arduino Discord experiment to have been "successful", but I'm "old", and I suspect that it helped pick up an audience that "doesn't like forums."

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