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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by res0nat0r »

Sikul wrote: post #32
res0nat0r wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's unfortunate Discord is still requiring relocation to SFO, the product is amazing and it looks like some awesome engineering behind the scenes that would be fun to work on!

This isn't true anymore. We switched to allowing and supporting permanent remote work (writing this from Seattle).

I applied the other month for a job that mentioned SFO or remote, then halfway through the signup it stated that they were allowing folks to work remote until COVID was better, then wanted folks to be onsite, and then prompted for a yes/no if I was willing to move to SFO at a later date. Didn't get a chance to talk to anyone and expect it was because of this, so is a bit disappointing.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by mishafb »

colesantiago wrote: post #21
jamesdwilson wrote: post #4

With privacy concerns, companies should be shamed for storing billions of messages.

> With privacy concerns, companies should be shamed for storing billions of messages. should we shame ycombinator for storing the messages, accounts and comments on hacker news then? I am still unable to delete my account here even though the CCPA and the GDPR exists. But here we are.

Your comments are a public thing you choose to publish to the world, but many (most?) discord messages are not. You'd want them to get deleted.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by PeterCorless »

Xavdidtheshadow wrote: post #46
kccqzy wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've also noticed that in a lot of tech-related social circles people are increasingly choosing Discord over Slack. That's a trend I totally didn't expect: at least until a few years ago it was clear that Discord was for gamers and Slack was for work and everyone else. That changed quickly. Impressive indeed!

I think which fits your community is really dependent on your use case. Discord has great tools around moderation and membership tiers; it's designed for users you don't trust. Slack is much more for a community where everyone knows each other (or at least trusts each other a bit, like you'd trust a coworker).

Agreed. If you want to manage a lot of people who you don't really "know," then Discord has all sorts of roles and rules you can set up.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by zitterbewegung »

tester756 wrote: post #2

Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.

IMHO it is even better than Slack.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by jonshariat »

RHSeeger wrote: post #36
tester756 wrote: post #2

Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.

Honestly, I find discord super frustrating. Can't have multiple chats open at the same time, can't close the right rail, etc. It's UX is subpar in almost every way that matters to me. I use it because _everyone_ uses it, not because I want to.

Ditto, feels fast and has a lot of features but to me the UX is very confusing.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by bonesinger »

SaltyBackendGuy wrote: post #49
m4rtink wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It works nice and is free, but for how long? How long can they keep paying for that bandwidth and message data storage while keeping the thing essentially free?

> It works nice and is free, but for how long? I wonder about this a lot. I wonder if they have some big 'whales' that help sustain their business OR they're just selling all of our data (is that enough to make money at discords scale??).

IMO its a good competitor to slack. They probably make money from businesses too. They have lots of options for permissions/roles and all kinds of API access to write bots for.

Re: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)

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Post by caymanjim »

yelnatz wrote: post #14
tester756 wrote: post #2

Discord had like $300M invested and they created unparalleled piece of software that ate whole market, damn. One of the most impressive softwares that I've seen and use after years of using ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak.

Well it solved a lot of pain points with the target market. I remember my friends and I kept bickering who would pay for this month's bill for the vent/mumble servers. That kept on for years until I had enough and hosted my own in a droplet in digital ocean. None of my friends knew how to do that since they're not very technical. Discord you just had to click a couple buttons and its free.

It's free for the same reason everything is free these days. VC funds anything that will attract a lot of users to mine data from so they can sell the data. Discord didn't do anything that was groundbreaking or even solve a problem that had no solution; they just came along during a time when investors are willing to fund a company operating at a loss for a decade until FANG buys them.

Discord's a pretty good product, and they've got the engineers and money to get better, but the only reason they won is because of timing. Same for Slack; there were identical products to Slack that tried for decades to gain traction, but they weren't free, because that business model didn't exist at the time.

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