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I don't know how people can read anything in Discord. It's a chat app, not a good medium to expose any information for people to be able to check when needed.

And moving everything to reddit is not a solution either, it's a hellhole.

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As a crusty old barnacle in my 30s, I'm inclined to think (with no empirical evidence mind you) that younger users prefer chat because they are used to looking at screens with a constantly updating ticker of new info.

Twitch, IG Live, FB Live, TT all have these auto-refreshing streams of comments in the UI.

Long before that there was IRC. I dunno exactly how old you are, but I'm 36 and IRC was definitely a thing during the 90s.

I'm the same age but didn't have Internet before the late '90s. MSN Messenger and ICQ were the big chat platforms of my time. I rarely chatted with strangers, although there were several city-based or activity-based rooms on mIRC where that could be done.

> younger users prefer chat because they are used to looking at screens with a constantly updating ticker of new info.

Maybe, but I assume it's not age but because they have more freetime to sit in chatrooms.

Works for development when there are < 5 active people and some viewers.

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