I have no idea how to use Discord. It looks like a random mess to me. When my subscription becomes due I’m going to change for the cheaper one that excludes it as I never use it.
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I feel like I am too old for Discord. Forums are logical, with discussions neatly categorized into relevant topics. In contrast, Discord reminds me of how my girlfriend tells a story - as she narrates, I get bombarded with numerous story branches, various timelines, random characters, and unexpected events. Even though I don’t quite grasp the main plot, I find myself just nodding along - but have no idea what is going on 
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The one reason I was going to stay at the member level was because I wanted to keep access to the members-only podcasts, but they said on the recent Geek Warning one that any level of paid membership gets you access to them, so I will likely drop down to the Reader level when it is time to renew.
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Discord? Too old? Books? Can I get some pre-www love for Gopher and Usenet? Never too old to Use the F’ing Command Line (“UtFCL”) or read books. Try programming in assembly language with manuals written in Japanese! The 80s rocked! Hand written memory maps! Garbage collection? Thats what showed up once a week to take out the trash 
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I took Assembler freshman year in college…there is reason I graduated as a History / PoliSci major.
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back on topic, any idea when they will roll out tiered plans? Just logged in, couldn’t find it, and disable auto-renew so I can review in March.
I believe the Reader level has been available for a few months…but haven’t bothered to look into it as I don’t need to renew for a few months yet.
I feel the same way. Discord is like a long chat thread and nobody cares about what was chatted about last week or even yesterday.
I’ve always hated chat even going back to the AOL days.
I come here and click on a few topics that I’m interested in and ignore the rest.
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Interesting. I assumed I was the only one who hated Discord. Glad to find I was wrong!
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I = Discord H8R 2
I’ve used it minimally for our Disaster events and in the old days for audio in sim racing (along with TeamSpeak). But I generally can’t stand the formatting in the text parts of Discord. Too much time on forums with real order & structure apparently? That or my GenX mind is just not random enough for the chaos that system offers.
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Fortran (?), punched cards and a computer the size of a large building was my last exposure to programming.
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Assembler was as close to programming in binary as you could get…and the output was just binary, IIRC.
Many an all-nighter in the computer lab that semester. Forgot if it was Cobalt or Fortran that came next, but it seemed so simple after Assembler.
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Iirc - it went
Assembly
FORTRAN
COBOL
Basic
Pascal
C
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I wouldn’t know past COBOL…I went liberal arts after that.
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my last exposure to programming was the phone call I just finished 
Is JS considered programming or it’s shunned as something to simplistic and not worthy of real IT guy? becuse js and some pyhon it’s all I’ve got as a graphic designer…
You’re 30 years too late, my friend!
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Thought so. But for web development is good enough. Unfortunately my childhood experience with logo and then with pascal were not successful enough to become part of elitist IT environment, that’s why I’ve got pretty basic aluminum bike
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Ha! I think you misunderstood my comment. The languages we’ve been talking about were in high usage back in the very early days. I actually got hired in the 90s because I knew JCL/COBOL, which was considered so ancient that most universities were not teaching it anymore and most young people didn’t want to use it!
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I saw this today and wondered who would want an IBM 3270 mainframe-look screen for their Garmin… maybe its you!
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