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Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by k12sosse »

tracker1 wrote: post #352
happytoexplain wrote: post #43

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Sometimes you need to be a "power user" to encounter all a product's flaws. I've been using it professionally for 3.5 years, and I touch pretty much every feature. I had high hopes because I loved a lot of the decisions they were making, so I started maintaining a list of issues/bugs. I reported them when I had time to describe them well. After a year, it got into the hundreds, with some that were pretty dramatic, an…

I think my biggest pet peive is the existence of Files/Wikis per/channel... when most of the time, you kind of one one set per team. Or the proliferation of Team groups themselves. Goes from pretty simple/useful to crazy bloated. Another irksome thing is you can tether the wiki along with files to onedrive via the sharepoint backend links... but the format of the wiki is in a proprietary format, and even if you did g…

Those per channel features are useful for others. Sometimes people don't get to run their own team, but at least they still get all the benefit in their little fiefdom.

6 to 1..

And using the wiki is pointless if you're using OneNote right.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by k12sosse »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #408
curiousgal wrote: post #9

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

My workplace switched from Slack to Teams a year ago and it was a complete disaster. In addition to numerous flaws that would be repeated by others, some users including me couldn't sign in with cooperate accounts at all---every time I put the email address it skips passwords and always ends up with a clueless generic error message with a non-functional "retry" button. I have since found a workaround which requires r…

What is your IdP? Do you integrate with Azure AD? Bringing your own provider? Using Microsoft accounts? Does your org use M365 at all? Or are you just using teams out of the suite?

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by anticensor »

sascha_sl wrote: post #470
anticensor wrote: post #450

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However, individually deleting messages using their API does delete them from their servers[0]. [0]: https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...

It does, but that is not always an option. What if you shared personal information on a server you no longer have access to? Your only option is to wait a week for your data export and then wait another 2-3 weeks for a support ticket to get to the stage of threatening Discord into actually removing individual messages. What if you're being stalked? What if you said something incridebly dumb on a server you assumed wa…

Not only that, Discord communities are all invite-only, even the discoverable ones are technically invite-only (discoverability process of Discord requires a permanent invite).

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by herbst »

anticensor wrote: post #456
herbst wrote: post #432

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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.

Thanks :) a / an / one / ... still gets me sometimes.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by uzakov »

sascha_sl wrote: post #471
judge2020 wrote: post #326

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So Discord has the same issue should be Discord had the same issue - I also can't find any mention of such abuse of power. The only thing is supposedly this Trust & Safety employee that revoked the vanity url /furry to give it to another server[0], and T&S needs full database access like that for obvious reasons (even if this employee did abuse it). 0: https://discord.news/trust-and-scam/

That's one incident. I'm talking about a pattern of behavior where staff members act unprofessionally. That includes telling your users "I can just change your ID lol" even if they don't end up doing it. Discord didn't fire the person who was joking about database edits the most (or anyone to my knowledge). All they did was close the outlet for staff to show their badge off and brag about it. That doesn't fix anythin…

> I'm talking about a pattern of behavior where staff members act unprofessionally.

Could you please provide some sources? As the other poster noted this is the first time we hear of this. Would be keen on knowing more

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by thaniel »

nerdponx wrote: post #338
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/

I remember I first heard about Discord as a Vent/Teamspeak/Raidcall competitor, and I'm pretty sure that was intended from the beginning.

Yeah, exactly. Their old motto was "Ditch Skype and Teamspeak" back when they were first emerging.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by throwaway3699 »

denkmoon wrote: post #434
throwaway3699 wrote: post #422

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Games with matchmaking will permanently ban your account if you leave games too often. It's a risk: "CS:GO - Competitive Cooldowns and Bans - Steam Support" https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1203-WJC...

How many competitive games are you playing where the enemy team is an admin on your teamspeak server and feels it is appropriate to ddos you?

All sorts of things can leak your IP. Source engine is one, Teamspeak is another.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by lifthrasiir »

k12sosse wrote: post #492
lifthrasiir wrote: post #408

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My workplace switched from Slack to Teams a year ago and it was a complete disaster. In addition to numerous flaws that would be repeated by others, some users including me couldn't sign in with cooperate accounts at all---every time I put the email address it skips passwords and always ends up with a clueless generic error message with a non-functional "retry" button. I have since found a workaround which requires r…

What is your IdP? Do you integrate with Azure AD? Bringing your own provider? Using Microsoft accounts? Does your org use M365 at all? Or are you just using teams out of the suite?

I don't know the exact provider. I think it's Azure AD with a hybrid identity (since login forms doesn't leave Microsoft at all), but it's a mere guess.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by tracker1 »

k12sosse wrote: post #491
tracker1 wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think my biggest pet peive is the existence of Files/Wikis per/channel... when most of the time, you kind of one one set per team. Or the proliferation of Team groups themselves. Goes from pretty simple/useful to crazy bloated. Another irksome thing is you can tether the wiki along with files to onedrive via the sharepoint backend links... but the format of the wiki is in a proprietary format, and even if you did g…

Those per channel features are useful for others. Sometimes people don't get to run their own team, but at least they still get all the benefit in their little fiefdom. 6 to 1.. And using the wiki is pointless if you're using OneNote right.

The wiki is integrated in the box. Unless onenote works in the box.
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