Instead, the new Steam Chat swipes an awful lot from Discord, the supercharged communication software taking the gaming world by storm. But for all the fresh features, Steam Chat won’t win entrenched gamers back from Discord, and the reason why is right there in the name. It’s Steam ...
I don’t think the choice to backchannel and deploy PR tactics is an isolated one, either. It’s hard to miss that as public discourse has gotten more polarized, more and more social interaction online has moved into private or semi-private venues. Products like Slack and Discord have ridd...