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How Discord Went Mainstream

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Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by stormbrew »

elagost wrote: post #64

From the TOS: By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service. The Company doe…

Any service that does the things discord does and doesn't somehow obtain a license along those lines from their users is probably in trouble. Note that it is a non-exclusive license and only grants them the rights to do those things in connection with the providing the service.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by MivLives »

The majority of people I talk to on Discord went the route of AIM/MSN/Yahoo -> Skype -> Discord. The big thing that I found was that the concept of Discord server was so significantly better then using group messages on anything before it that everyone immediately flocked to it. Just the concept of channels is a new one to a lot of these people. The majority were not gamers (never used Teamspeak/Vent/Mumble), or particularly technical people (IRC would not be a good fit).

So props to Discord for making a chat client that's as easy to use as Skype was.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by umvi »

elagost wrote: post #67
holler wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99% of users don't care, it's a great product

I agree, but that's sad, and not the way things should be. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard instead of blindly shuffling into the tar pits. Does that mean life is harder? Yes. But no one great ever took the easy way out.

There are alternatives, like Zulip

https://zulipchat.com/

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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elagost wrote: post #64

From the TOS: By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service. The Company doe…

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Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by avree »

2038AD wrote: post #21
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 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…

There is no way to mute "Role Pings" on Discord currently. You can mute @here/@everyone/@your name, but if you are assigned a role and that is pinged, it goes through.

That is one of my main gripes with Discord, in addition to:

1. Uploading photos/videos through the mobile app stops if you lock your phone or background the app. No other modern app exhibits this behavior.

2. Blocking users shows a large "BLOCKED" message, with no option to truly block them.

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

worble wrote: post #14
s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People were tired of getting DDoS'ed so they switched away from Skype/Teamspeak. The nice UX makes it easy for everyone to use, and the community aspect is appealing. IRC isn't very easy to use for the common person.

>The nice UX makes it easy for everyone to use Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but am I the only one who finds the UX to be atrocious? Everything seems to a nondescript icon that rarely represents what it's supposed to do, nearly everything is flat so it's hard to tell what you can actually click on and whats decoration. Everytime I use it feels like an exercise in mental gymnastics just to navigate it.

I mean... 90% of the UI is just text. The only icons are for the server images and some minor ones like emojis in the text input. Have a specific example?

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by mont »

jelv wrote: post #43

Discord business model seems te be to sell games. Not sure if it's going to be a good fit for non-gamers in the future. https://riot.im/ powered by Matrix also seems a good alternative. It's getting more stable every day.

I always assumed they were selling user data. People talk about a lot of sensitive/private stuff on there for some reason, and they self-select into communities they're interested in. Also it looks like they're hiring a lot of data scientists[0], though that could be for other reasons. [0] https://discordapp.com/jobs

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by gsich »

umvi wrote: post #74
elagost wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but that's sad, and not the way things should be. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard instead of blindly shuffling into the tar pits. Does that mean life is harder? Yes. But no one great ever took the easy way out.

There are alternatives, like Zulip https://zulipchat.com/

No voice, how is that an alternative?

Re: How Discord Went Mainstream

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Post by snek »

elagost wrote: post #64

From the TOS: By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service. The Company doe…

How would they be able to distribute your content (messages, images, etc) to other people if they didn't have the license to do so?

Every chat service and social media has this clause because they couldn't send your messages without it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/3r3rrt/question...

Please do your research before bringing out the pitchforks.

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