alt Hacker NewsBut in those cases people actually hosted a server, right?
In discord it's more like a slack workspace, right?
The people "hosting" a discord "server" are not actually running hardware anywhere that runs the server?
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anonymous908213 • today at 1:19 AM
98% of the people hosting "servers" of any kind in the world are not actually running hardware, everything is timesharing compute on a hyperscaler's computer now.
But yes, a Discord server is equivalent to a Slack workspace. It's just inherited terminology.
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cowlevel • today at 1:39 AM
That's correct. Discord co-opted established terminology for its own ends and it was very successful.
For what it's worth I never actually hosted a ventrilo server either, I always just paid a service to do it. Pretty much the same experience as discord is today.