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How Discord Went Mainstream

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Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by abryzak »

SeanDav wrote: post #24
2038AD wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not a fan of Discord but I think you're mistaken. Right click on the channel icon and go to 'Notification Settings' rather than clicking on 'Server Mute'. From there you can choose whether a mention (inc./ex. @everyone/@here) counts and whether mobile notifications are enabled. As for the client you may want to try Ripcord[0]. It uses less memory though I'm not sure you can mute people the same way. While I don't…

Thanks for the ripcord suggestion! As far as server/channel mute - believe me, I have tried every option, including your suggestions. It works for most servers but I have 2 that I can't mute no matter what I try.

There's also an issue that there doesn't seem to be any way to mute @ mentions of roles you're assigned to. So if a server admin assigns you to a role and then mentions that role you'll get a notification even if server mute is on and suppress @everyone and @here is on.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by magicalhippo »

SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

I'm not a fanboy, but at least for me Discord in FireFox seems very well behaved.

It's been open in a tab for a week, on a fairly high-volume server (dozens of channels, thousands of users) and FireFox reports (about:memory) 150MB usage for that tab.

Your experience seems to mirror my Slack experience though, I have to kill that tab about every other day due to live leaks.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by neilv »

Does anyone know what dotcom partnerships and individual/influencer affiliate programs Discord has done?

For a while, I saw many subreddit mods pushing Discord in side bars and stickied posts, often with language that suggested it was an official Reddit counterpart to the sub.

I supposed it could be that Reddit management was choosing to siphon off its own user base and influence to Discord. But my suspicion was that it was more likely the action of one or more mods of the sub, and then question would be what was their motivation.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by SeanDav »

abryzak wrote: post #41
SeanDav wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the ripcord suggestion! As far as server/channel mute - believe me, I have tried every option, including your suggestions. It works for most servers but I have 2 that I can't mute no matter what I try.

There's also an issue that there doesn't seem to be any way to mute @ mentions of roles you're assigned to. So if a server admin assigns you to a role and then mentions that role you'll get a notification even if server mute is on and suppress @everyone and @here is on.

I wonder if this is the reason I am still getting notifications on 2 servers. It sounds plausible, as they are game related servers, so quite possible I was assigned a role. I don't recall investigating this, although it is several months ago since I last tried solving mute issue.

This does not solve my mute issue, but great to know that this might be the cause! Thanks for this.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by Biganon »

shishy wrote: post #35
Biganon wrote: post #34

My group of friends migrated from Messenger to Discord a few days ago, we are very pleased. Here's a list of what I love the most: * When a friend arrived in the evening and the others had been talking about random things all day long, the friend was often submerged by the amount of fluff to read. Discord solves this in two ways: 1) the different channels allow us to keep discussions tidy, we have a channel for rando…

Nice! What are the advantages you see with Discord over Slack for the same purpose (if any)? I figured Slack's been around longer and offers most of these things so I was curious what makes people use Discord over it. FWIW I use both happily.

I've almost never used Slack, but isn't it more institution-oriented? Can you use it for free with a bunch of friends?

I'd be interested in knowing what you prefer in both, since you're using both

Also, have you ever tried a free software, decentralized alternative?

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by Shish2k »

swiley wrote: post #33
SeanDav wrote: post #12

I was a huge Discord fan, but now stopped using it for several reasons. - I can't mute some channels completely. I have raised bug reports, tried all the various options, researched everything I could find in Google about this issue. Bottom line is that "mute" is taken by Discord to be "only mute, unless I think you need to hear this", with no way to fully mute a channel. - I only use Discord in browser and it now ha…

Why is it everyone outside of programmers (and even then) always picks chat services with the worst client software available? IRC had issues but at least the clients were decent.

Programmers and non-programmers have very different ideas of what is "decent". Examples of things non-programmers want in a group chat app:

- persistent chat history

- mobile client

- a sane registration / nickname reservation method

Perhaps requests like those don't match your own priorities, but I don't think they're wrong.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by h1d »

scrollaway wrote: post #38
aboutruby wrote: post #37

I think Discord is slowing eating away all other form of online communication as it can be used for such a variety of situations and their API makes it very customizable. The main issue I see is the culture. Discord's community has quite an opposite culture as Slack (free time vs work time) for instance. Being able to have multiple Discord handles could solve that.

Even though I use it a lot for 1 on 1 convos it's definitely not eating that lunch (yet). And imo it won't as long as it remains less reliable for notifications and doesn't have things like last-online, quote replies and read receipts like messenger and WhatsApp.

I don't understand why read reciepts are important. People will respond when they feel like whether it says read or not. Just makes it more cumbersome to get around it when you're too busy to respond.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by izzydata »

aboutruby wrote: post #37

I think Discord is slowing eating away all other form of online communication as it can be used for such a variety of situations and their API makes it very customizable. The main issue I see is the culture. Discord's community has quite an opposite culture as Slack (free time vs work time) for instance. Being able to have multiple Discord handles could solve that.

There is a feature suggestion I've been following and crossing my fingers to get implemented for having a different profile picture per server. You can already have a generic username and then nicknames per server so it would be nice to further separate your online presence.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by sciurus »

ngrilly wrote: post #28
wetpaws wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord is a replacement for irc, telegram is a replacement for messenger/blogs. You can't really compare them, it's like matching oranges and apples.

I agree that Telegram is primarily a messaging app like WhatsApp or Messenger. But its group feature has become really powerful, and can be used as an alternative to IRC (except for the fact that a "group" can't be divided in multiple channels). Some Mozilla groups have been using Telegram for some time: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telegram

I think part of the nature of Mozilla is that we end up using everything. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some groups using Discord, too. My team and related ones are still mostly on IRC. Officially, as employees we're all supposed to be using Slack...
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