Subj : 2038: still be running a
To   : Arelor
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Mar 26 2021 21:45:55

Hello Arelor,

Friday March 26 2021 20:16, you wrote to me:

 A> I remember building a Mumble server and a set of bots for playing some
 A> RPG games over VOIP, using my own infrastructure, and some Discord
 A> user convinced everybody to use Discrod instead for the game, citing
 A> all the capabilities Discord has, and all the bots available and its
 A> healthy ecosystem. They forced the issue and we ended up playing over
 A> Discord because it was obvious it was "so much featureful". It turned
 A> out we ended up using NONE of the advertised extra capatilities. So in
 A> the end we ended up using an untrustworthy platform controlled by a
 A> third party in exchange of (supposed) perks we didn't use.

I have heard that same story a lot from several "pro gamers" (hah) I know of moving from a trusted platform to Discord that records everything you write, including PMs, for the government to regularly peruse through whether it needs to or not.

Later,
Sean

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