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Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by beams_of_light »

dvt wrote: post #16

I'm bearish on Discord. Unlike Slack, it targets a price-averse demographic and is attempting to enter spaces that are very saturated (Steam, Origin, Epic, Ubisoft are already crushing the digital distribution medium), so then it's basically an IRC replacement for gamers. I understand Slack's valuation as it targets huge companies with up to decades-long contracts and has projected revenues > $1B for this year, but I…

I strongly believe Discord would be a better alternative to Slack in the workplace. Drop in/out voice channels combined with chat would be fantastic for geographically disparate teams.

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by SolarNet »

elefanten wrote: post #123
crocodiletears wrote: post #66

Discord isn't just for gamers. Though that's where it started, its robust community management features have made it's a go-to for online creators looking to engage with their audiences. It's especially prominent among Youtubers, and is increasingly becoming seen in some circles as a safer alternative to public forums like Reddit for topical discourse. This is, in my opinion because there's no formal discoverability…

Do you know of any comparison between use of Discord and Slack for these kind of community management use cases? Is either one used more and what are the relevant feature differences?

Discord is definitely used more often for communities. Some community focused game companies come to mind: Amplitude, Coffee Stain Studios, most gaming oriented youtubers have discords.

I think the relevant feature differences is that Discord comes with free voice chat and free complex permission and group management features, as well as a much simpler on-boarding procedure (slack has you fiddling with accounts for each individual group).

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by hannasanarion »

zacharycohn wrote: post #101
crocodiletears wrote: post #66

Discord isn't just for gamers. Though that's where it started, its robust community management features have made it's a go-to for online creators looking to engage with their audiences. It's especially prominent among Youtubers, and is increasingly becoming seen in some circles as a safer alternative to public forums like Reddit for topical discourse. This is, in my opinion because there's no formal discoverability…

> Discord isn't just for gamers. That's true! It's also very popular among neo nazis.

And LGBT communities.

The reason discord attracts both crowds is that they can safely and easily exclude each other.

Sure, /r/the_donald is in discord and uses it to coordinate raids and harassment, but they perform those raids on Reddit and Twitter, where making a sockpuppet takes five seconds and you can instantly yell and vote at anyone on the whole site.

You can't target a discord like that, you need an invite that mods can revoke or stop issuing at any time, or use hierarchical user privileges to hinder new accounts, or any number of other moderation steps.

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by [deleted] »

pmarreck wrote: post #231
nostrademons wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in middle/high school in the mid-late 90s, I was addicted to the precursors of today MMORPGs (back when everything was text-based), and my career plan consisted of founding a gaming company. My mother successfully (for a time) dissuaded me, saying "Who has time to play games? Once you have money to pay for games, you'll be working at a job for most of your waking hours." A couple years out of college, I ac…

Do you have kids?

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Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by vitorgrs »

endgame wrote: post #96
joering2 wrote: post #80

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After over six months of being harrased with “upgrade your skype for better experience”, I finally buckled up and clicked “ok”. When Skype came back in less than five minutes I felt that Microsoft read my mind, pickup all the features I loved and used daily, and deleted them off their new version! it simply blew my mind! In addition everything worked different! New Skype is entirely new messanger, not Skype upgrade.…

In addition, whatever shitty new version they dumped on my tablet has significant UI latency, which was not a problem before.

React Native.

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by vitorgrs »

anoncoward111 wrote: post #91
drchickensalad wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To reverse it, I can't really think of anything skype does better than discord in a mildly gaming context honestly.

Discord isn't owned by Microsoft, everyone uses it, and it runs in my browser. That's more than enough reason to never touch the flaming pile of shit that Skype is today, thanks to corporate development strategies and bloat.

Skype also runs in the browser...

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by reciprocity »

legionof7 wrote: post #139

I've used Discord for a long time and my previous startup was even part of the Hypesquad program. However, I'm really concerned with their views around E2E encryption. We've asked many times for an end-to-end encryption service. This became the #3 most upvoted request ( https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600... ). Unfortunately, their "rejection" and user comments were deleted after they switche…

In addition to this, they've also locked the ability for users to vote for this feature so even if you do sign in, you can't vote for end to end encryption to be implemented.

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by reciprocity »

tlear wrote: post #185
starshadowx2 wrote: post #31

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I'm a pretty big discord user, early supporter/nitro/hypesquad and all that, and I have never heard of this "influential crowd" calling it uncool. All I've seen is servers getting larger and more servers popping up. Discord themselves just ran a Snowsgiving server which raised 100k for charity in under a week and had ~10k people in it at any time I checked chatting. I don't have any lag on any devices nor do I hear o…

Data mining operation..? ask yourself what was their response to the end to end encryption requests? There is your answer.

Their response to the request for end to end encryption was a non-response. They've stated that they believe in security but it doesn't get any more substantive than that.

Re: Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation

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Post by anoncoward111 »

vitorgrs wrote: post #247
anoncoward111 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord isn't owned by Microsoft, everyone uses it, and it runs in my browser. That's more than enough reason to never touch the flaming pile of shit that Skype is today, thanks to corporate development strategies and bloat.

Skype also runs in the browser...

Does it use 4gb ram like it does on desktop? Does it remind me that Edge(TM) provides the best browsing experience?
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