Discord is a lot better, but I understand some people have some nostalgia with Hive chat. I have some nostalgia too, but what use is it if chat history doesn't even function for everyone. Discord has so much more customization, it's a lot easier to manage from a staff standpoint, it's easy notify people quicker about anything, it's more welcoming and familiar to guests, seems to have limitless chat history, has a great search system, the channel organization is on point, the voice chat is something much better than skype has ever offered, and it includes many add-ons that would be able to help and link to Hive. These things allows for and provides incentive for people to be more active, and it really is more active which makes it more enjoyable to me. During my hours, the Hive chat is usually less than 4 people, often even one or none. And it's often just another tab everyone is AFK-ing in.
I'm not necessarily for killing the Hive chat, but I do feel Discord is a lot better and the chat is very outdated and clunky compared to what we have now.
I chose hive chat because it doesn't track my location, as far as I know, and it brings more traffic to the hive and helps their advertising.
Uh. We track your guys' IPs to stop multi-accounting and bot spam farms whereas Discord obscures their users IPs. So this is really the opposite of what you're thinking.
I like the hive's chat, it's a quiet place for olde members.
I mean even the old members who used to frequent the chat use discord. Bob, Pyritie, ShiiK, Pyramidhe@d, Hindy, Dio, RDZ, ike_ike, wereguy etc etc. But I'm getting off-topic heh.