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> But on Discord you're invited to what they abusively call a "server" ...

I don't know if this has changed, but they were originally called guilds.




Seems like they're called "servers" now. I imagine "guilds" felt a bit too gamer centric for them after they saw how popular their service was becoming.


I've been working on a simple bot for one of the servers/guilds I'm on, and the API endpoints as well as documentation still heavily uses the term guild.


> Guilds in Discord represent an isolated collection of users and channels, and are often referred to as "servers" in the UI.[1]

This is why it's users refer to them as servers.

[1]: https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/guild


The service is still very gamer centric, Discord Nitro for instance gives you a game subscription. I really hope they’re not trying to become Slack, that will be the death of them.


They’re still referred to as guilds in the APIs, but their friendly name is now servers.


Guilded is a new discord clone.

They separated those terms a long time ago, even before the second-hand app




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