Discord is made for gaming. But I honestly can't see a problem for people using it for meetings or just having a chat with your friends. What makes Discord better for gamers, is the overlay. A lot of games are compatible with Discord's overlay and with it you can mute and deafen people easily without having to tab out. You can also access your chat easily and see who's talking at the moment, if you're playing with new people you don't really know. Discord also tells you what your friends are playing with a small text under your name. "MaroStClair - Playing Parkitect" which is both a bit creepy but kinda cool. The overlay is quite new, which tells me there will be more to come in the future. The only downside I can see to this, is that you can't actually add all games to your Discord. Sometimes you can find your running game in a drop down list and add it manually, but not all games are recognised by Discord, which makes it impossible to add it and use the overlay. Hopefully there will be a fix to this in the future, because I could really need the overlay whenever I'm playing Digimon Masters. I have seen that Discord is also very popular and easy to use for streamers/youtubers, where their fans can join their channel to actually talk and make more contact with the content creator.

 

However as I said, Discord works for more than just gaming, and since it works in browser as well, you can invite anyone to a temporary meeting. It's a little bit similar to Skype for Business in that way, except you don't actually need a valid business. I can't wait to see what they are planning for it in the future. The only thing I fear is that Discord is going to be so popular and used by so many people that sooner or later they are going to have to put in ads, or paid channels, emoticons or different restrictions that will drag down the happiness by their users. But everything costs money, unfortunately, I just hope they will find a better way than doing like everyone else and add even more features for gamers.