All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XV

[Black Aeronaut]

Discord is more of a replacement for IRC rather than message boards. It's targeted mainly towards gamers and streamers, but it's so versatile and flexible that a lot of people use it just as a chat server, complete with channels and roles.

Basically, the people at Discord took IRC/voice chat and gave it a complete graphical user interface. The only time you need to bother with code is when dealing with bots.