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Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by hanniabu » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

antris wrote: post #36

toastercat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UX and featureset of Discord is impressive. The UX in particular is superior to Slack, Teams, or any other modern chat application I've used. I'd like to move my group to Matrix, but Element (fka Riot.im) is nowhere near as polished or user-friendly as Discord.

Have you ever tried to disable notifications on Discord? I have tried to do it 500 times and still get those annoying red dots with numbers, red dots without numbers, and just a few weeks ago I started getting random notification sounds (after I had disabled them before) without any clue where they were coming from. My only option is trying to disable all notifications and all notification sounds everywhere, but stil…

About a month ago they pushed an update that improved the notification options. That might help you.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by Notorious_BLT » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #34

COGlory wrote: post #2

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

They have users. If they wanted to they could become the next Steam tomorrow by simply selling games and giving deals. The engaged userbase of discord far surpasses steam, epic, and all other gaming clients. Valve doesn't care about competing or innovating, theyll simply roll over and let it happen. But like any startup discord is created with monopoly money and therefore they don't have any actual knowledge, experti…

They already tried, it flopped and they killed off the feature. PC gamers already own games through Steam, no one wants to have to split their library if they can avoid it.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by debacle » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

Amazon (Twitch), Epic, and Valve are all targeting gaming verticals. Each of them are integrating the other's features as also-rans: streaming, marketplace, reviews, community, platform. Most people would probably be surprized to know that you can buy games on Twitch and stream on Steam.

What space will Discord be able to carve out? They will be a Netflix in an Disney and Hulu world.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by afpx » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

COGlory wrote: post #2

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

Do they even have a lot of active users? I haven’t found many public discord channels that seem to be actively used.

Or, is discord more for private chat?

I’ve used it a few times for organizing online gaming. But, it wasn’t worth it to keep it installed.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by logronoide » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

I can’t believe any of the people complaining here about low quality of the VoIP of Teams have used the VoIP of Discord, because they simply can’t compare. Teams have anti-coupling features and you can use it with speakers out of the box. Discord does not have a good anti-coupling algorithms and it’s almost impossible to use it without headphones. Perfect for gamers, but not for business. Discord is amazing to create communities, that’s what Microsoft wanted.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by AznHisoka » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #4

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.

And I think they're starting to regret that acquisition, as their last Q started to show signs of a turnaround. If they had waited and didn't cave in to Wall St pressure, I bet they would've figured things out eventually.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by wongarsu » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #35

larinzod wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aye, nothing like investor pressure and quarterly growth targets to kill an otherwise good company/product.

This is how tech startups work, isn't it? Use investors to build a product with no business model, then the founders cash out via purchase or IPO, and soon after the fact that you have no business model comes to light and the product falls apart trying to find a business model, while users move on to the next shiny thing with no business model.

Discord has a business model: Get people engaged in a community, sell them Nitro so they can boost their communities [1][2]. The "buy benefits for you community" scheme is wildly successful in mobile games, so I wouldn't be surprised if it works well for Discord.

1: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028038352-S...

2: https://discord.com/nitro

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by tpxl » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

Notorious_BLT wrote: post #48

antris wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever tried to disable notifications on Discord? I have tried to do it 500 times and still get those annoying red dots with numbers, red dots without numbers, and just a few weeks ago I started getting random notification sounds (after I had disabled them before) without any clue where they were coming from. My only option is trying to disable all notifications and all notification sounds everywhere, but stil…

Right-click the server icon, select "notifications settings", press "Mute ". When it asks how long, select "until I turn it back on". This will kill the white dot unless you're mentioned (or @everyone'd). Its a little tricky to find but that will solve your issue

You can also turn off @everyone/@here/@username in right-click -> notification settings -> 'Suppress @everyone and @here'. Like the sibling said, doing this for every channel is tedious.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by Semaphor » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:18 PM UTC

antris wrote: post #36

toastercat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The UX and featureset of Discord is impressive. The UX in particular is superior to Slack, Teams, or any other modern chat application I've used. I'd like to move my group to Matrix, but Element (fka Riot.im) is nowhere near as polished or user-friendly as Discord.

Have you ever tried to disable notifications on Discord? I have tried to do it 500 times and still get those annoying red dots with numbers, red dots without numbers, and just a few weeks ago I started getting random notification sounds (after I had disabled them before) without any clue where they were coming from. My only option is trying to disable all notifications and all notification sounds everywhere, but stil…

For @ mentions, there is currently no way to fully (@everyone only per server, @name or @role not at all) disable them (I don’t mind that, I do want to read those). The red dot you can disable them in Settings -> Notifications -> Enable Unread Message Badge

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by antris » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 6:18 PM UTC

hanniabu wrote: post #51

antris wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever tried to disable notifications on Discord? I have tried to do it 500 times and still get those annoying red dots with numbers, red dots without numbers, and just a few weeks ago I started getting random notification sounds (after I had disabled them before) without any clue where they were coming from. My only option is trying to disable all notifications and all notification sounds everywhere, but stil…

About a month ago they pushed an update that improved the notification options. That might help you.

Well that seemed to erase the "red dot without number" problem, but it still seems I get "red dot with number" that I have to go manually clear even when it's obvious that nobody has mentioned me.

Anyway, thanks for the tip