No matter what we're up to, we're almost always sharing our screens. For hours every night we hang out, play games, and watch stuff together. I'm a member of a bunch of servers that I don't check in on very often, but lately, my Discord experience is a single server with close friends I've had since high school. Discord is also increasingly a reliable one-on-one instant messaging and telemeeting service complete with camera support, screen capture, and file sharing. Many have a mix of both or check in on a dozen servers per day. For a lot of us, servers are intimate spaces with no more than a dozen close friends. To some, a Discord server is a modern forum where hundreds or thousands of users gather under the interest of a single topic. Our server has a new music bot, Rythm, that's about as good as Groovy, but for how long?ĭiscord can be a lot of things to different people. The loss of Groovy reinforced an anxiety that I've been feeling for a long time: The Discord we have right now cannot and will not last forever. You didn't even have to sit through ads, which is probably what Google's real beef was about.īroovy is still in our server, forever listening to "Goodbye". If it's on YouTube, Spotify, or Soundcloud, it's on Groovy.
Google wasn't so keen on the way Groovy's creators utilized YouTube, saying it was "modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes." It's true: part of what made Groovy so popular (over 16 million downloads) is that it was a 100% free way to listen to music. We'd thank him for finding a particularly obscure song on YouTube, cheer him on when he'd glitch and leave the channel in embarrassment, and move him into our active channel if he were sitting all alone.īroovy was our quiet friend that was always there to brighten a night of gaming. Over the year plus we had Groovy on our little server, we had affectionately renamed him Broovy.
It was really that simple-a helpful little bot that pops into the voice channel like any other user to play music-but honestly, it was more than that to us. Groovy was a free add-on for servers that could take a search term for any song, join the voice channel you're in, and instantly start playing it.
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