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Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by holler »

akamaozu wrote: post #435
holler wrote: post #258

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Totally... If you enjoy the text/irc aspect, I welcome you to check out https://sqwok.im , a new realtime public discussion site very much inspired by growing up using aol chat/irc/icq/aim and others. I think we live at an amazing juncture of technology and ideas, where excellent communication software like irc that was always limited by it's own access requirements (install something, client, server, huh?), can now…

Sqwok looks amazing :)

thank you! let me know if you have any questions

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by anticensor »

antpls wrote: post #251
etempleton wrote: post #127

I just don’t see what Discord’s path towards profitability is. Are they going to try to start an online store again? Sell enough Nitro subs? I think they are playing hard ball for a better acquisition deal, but they risk being irrelevant before ever getting a better deal.

In addition to other comments : advertising. Imagine having to watch, or listen to an ad before you can join a channel. Imagine contextual ads in-between text messages.

Discord has zero ads.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by fredzel »

belgesel wrote: post #442
fish45 wrote: post #77

Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it's super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who's free can join. I really wish there were competition, but there's nothing…

I believe before Discord got the high ground there was a program called Curse. I wonder if it is still functional.

Curse Voice was discontinued few years ago, after Amazon bought Curse and later turned it into Twitch app

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by lightbulbjim »

uncletaco wrote: post #230
3PS wrote: post #141

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Personally, I wish the desktop client was a bit more lightweight. I understand why they went with Electron, and I don't think they could have afforded their speed of iterated development as a small company otherwise, but I still wish their app was a bit lighter on my laptop. I'm especially disappointed that cordless [1], a very usable third-party terminal-based client for Discord, was banned due to a ToS violation. S…

and with this lightweightness the ability to customize the client more, maybe even create popouts to monitor multiple chats simultaneously or do one server per window.

I wish I could choose my own font!

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by intricatedetail »

vehementi wrote: post #351
tru3_power wrote: post #317

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The voice chat rooms reminds me exactly of this program called Ventrillo or “vent” as we used to call it back when I was in high school. I’m officially old! https://www.ventrilo.com/

That's exactly it yes. Discord is ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak, but hosted and with IRC channels.

Many hosting providers specifically disallow hosting of things such as IRC as that protocol has been used by botnets.

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Post by anticensor »

herbst wrote: post #432
vehementi wrote: post #366

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Discord doesn't have particularly amazing technology, what do you mean?

They combined a lot of things others were doing well too and combined it into a resource hungry piece of software. I too am not really impressed

Correcting for you, into one resource hungry piece of software.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by hyperbovine »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #204
__turbobrew__ wrote: post #191

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Discord needs threads before I would even consider using it as a slack replacement.

Threads and the also send to channel are such a hack. It's much better to let conversations flow naturally.

I’m absolutely loving that this comment is three threads deep.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by coding_lobster »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #275
sbagel wrote: post #228

Discord does not give users a choice to opt-out of their wildly invasive data collection methods including logging executables running on your system while the desktop client is open, not just games. This data alone is very valuable. Comment from a 2019 support thread "I am pretty flabbergasted that people aren't making a bigger deal of this than they are. Discord actively monitors your executables, but the larger co…

Why would you install the desktop app? Isn't it Electron anyways, so aren't you basically running the same thing as you would in the browser, except now you've replaced the exceptionally well sandboxed, trusted browser with an outdated, unsandboxed browser and have given an app that doesn't need this access to your entire system?

> Why would you install the desktop app?

Not sure if this is still the case but the browser version didn't have the same noise suppression features as the desktop client.

Another minor thing for me was that the desktop client doesn't stack with the browser window in the taskbar (i.e. I can still 1 click both if I only have 1 browser window open which I usually do) and it can be minimized into the system tray.

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Post by anticensor »

antris wrote: post #60
hanniabu wrote: post #51

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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

Notifications for deleted messages do not get rolled back.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by anticensor »

Semaphor wrote: post #59
antris wrote: post #36

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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

Role mentions can be muted (check "suppress all role mentions").
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