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Discord could be interesting as Amazon has already shown interest in the gaming / streaming / online community space with their Twitch acquisition.
One could copy-paste Discord, replace all occurrences of "gaming" for "enterprise" and it would be a much better business communication platform than Slack.
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So for a 1:1 comparison, let's consider the apps that MS has made in this space over the years. Ignoring the semi-annual rebrands and the MS chat products that were killed from before Google even existed (there's surprisingly many!), there's at least: 1. MSN Messenger (+ rebrands) 2. Skype 3. NetMeeting 4. Lync (+ rebrands) 5. Yammer 6. Kaizala 7. Teams 8. SharedView 9. Windows Meeting Space 10. Groove 11. Qik I trie…
I want to see a whole organisation on Microsoft Comic Chat.
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Discord could be interesting as Amazon has already shown interest in the gaming / streaming / online community space with their Twitch acquisition.
Twitch already purchased Curse Voice about four years ago and renamed it to the Twitch Desktop application. It was what Discord is now before Discord existed. That was already a losing battle when Twitch made the purchase though so they ended up stripping out all of those features. It would have made more sense for them to buy Discord back then. https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/Ending-Support-for-Voice-Ch...
Curse Voice released in June 2015. Discord released in May 2015.
At best you could fudge the numbers and claim that Discord and Curse came out at the same time. A claim that Curse Voice was anything before Discord existed is flat out false.
Eh people will be salty about the Salesforce name but honestly their acquisition of Heroku hasn't caused me any pains regarding our experience with that platform. I'm as skeptical as anyone else, and I think there's more risk in a tighter "integration" making it a miserable experience. Might be a good time in the market for a new Slack competitor!
Wonder what's going to happen to free tier. Some integration into core Salesforce might make sense for reps / teams. Another useful product might be live chats based on Slack tech. Seems good fit, but I do wonder how well they are going to integrate.
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The one that is built into every GSuite/Workspace account. For free. Google Chat.
The mobile Google Chat still doesn't let you switch accounts, like Hangouts supports. Perplexing, given how much people in the Google-sphere context switch.
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We use Teams at work, and for that it works quite well. Calls and desktop sharing work well, the channels do what they do, integration with OneDrive and the wiki thing is nice etc. But then I got a member of a different Team, for one of our customers, as part of some integration work. And boy is that a CF. Unlike Discord you either have this team or that team active. Notifications from the other are horribly unreliab…
>>and there's no way to chat with someone in one team while you're in a call with someone from the other team besides running a separate client. This was largely fixed, you may have to enable the "new meeting experience" though, which starts your meeting / call in a separate window from the main client
Last tried this a couple of days ago.
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One could copy-paste Discord, replace all occurrences of "gaming" for "enterprise" and it would be a much better business communication platform than Slack.
Message threading would make it better though.
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I had forgotten that they bought Heroku. As far as I know, Heroku is still as cool as when I used to frequently use it. Time will tell how it goes with the Slack acquisition.
Aside from it being absurdly expensive and understaffed for support and CS. I mostly agree.
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That’s somewhat the solution irccloud provides, however they need a mobile app. I think the biggest issue with irc is the backlog. It’s somewhat nice to be able to easily search a companies chat history and find some context. The solution to that is correct documentation, however that problem is much harder.
IRCCloud has had iOS and Android apps since 2016. :)