Chat app Discord is shedding its gamer roots — Quartz
July 17, 2021 Picture a combination of Slack, AOL Instant Messenger, Zoom, and a sketchy chat room, and you have something approximating Discord. It’s essentially an all-purpose chat app, built around closed communities—called “servers”—that speak to different interests. After launching in 2015, Discord caught on first with gamers, who use it to discuss games and watch each other play. “[A server] can be a safe place,” says Discord CTO and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, “for a small group of people you know, a larger community of like-minded people, and everything in betwee...
Source: qz.com