Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by coloneltcb » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
wsj.com

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Post by COGlory » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?

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Post by donkarma » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive

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Post by rvz » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:27 PM UTC

Let's hope that Discord doesn't end up going the way of Slack. Since Slack got overconfident over Microsoft Teams and lost and got acquired by Salesforce.

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Post by lostcolony » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

COGlory wrote: post #2

What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?

Does anyone in this space? At least, that has any user facing affect (i.e., 99.9% uptime vs 99.99% uptime is not something users will be comparing). It's all network effect and business model.

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Post by milkytron » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

donkarma wrote: post #3

Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive

Maybe...

Teams is utter garbage in my opinion, but I don't think acquiring Discord would solve that. Skype seems like a similar acquisition, and look how that turned out.

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Post by dekerta » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

donkarma wrote: post #3

Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive

Teams definitely feels like it was rushed to market to take advantage of the pandemic. I'm really sad our company moved us from Slack to Teams. It's so much worse, especially on Linux

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Post by kungito » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

COGlory wrote: post #2

What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?

It's been a fucking amazing product from day one and they have a lot of features. I only wish they release a non gaming branded version

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Post by curiousgal » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

donkarma wrote: post #3

Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive

Been using Teams for school for two years now and have zero complaints.

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Post by krzepah » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 5:34 PM UTC

milkytron wrote: post #6

donkarma wrote: post #3

Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive

Maybe... Teams is utter garbage in my opinion, but I don't think acquiring Discord would solve that. Skype seems like a similar acquisition, and look how that turned out.

Microsoft has trouble with UI design and it only got worse. Think about the "help" buttons that are on win system preferences, instead of directing you to the option they send you to google or bing. It's ridiculous.