or maybe some other terminology would be better? lots of people get confused when you ask them to choose an instance, sometimes I think even the word “proxy”, “host”, or “hub” is simpler

the specific terms aren’t my point, just a discussion to see if we can come up with a better name

  • amio
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    It’s arguably used wrongly on Discord, but not in a way that’s radically different from how I already thought about “servers” in the sense of “something you connect to”.

    It seems more like a term they picked because it has that familiar sense. Otherwise I think there’s a semi-official term, “guild”, too.

    • KSP Atlas
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      11 year ago

      It may have been inspired by earlier chat systems where a server served a similar purpose?