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Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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post #17

I despise discord. It's bloatware. It has constant popups that are difficult to disable. I do read their tech posts on HN, and they are always fascinating. But it seems to me like a product that the MBAs have taken a over.

Mind going into more details about the popups? Ive been using for years and cant say I've ever had a popup besides the occasional changelog.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#32

I feel like in order to campfire business users, they would have to rebrand. Discord is a cool name for gamers, but maybe not for your average business person.

This is the part of the thread where we bikeshed a bit over the name of an app.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what that is meant to convey except scorn. Discord's UI works fine for lots of us and I don't see any relationship with Chuck-E-Cheese here.

it means it feels age-inappropriate for an adult to use, like hanging out at a children's arcade

Yeah, to me that is just conveying a total lack of awareness and tech snobbery. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of adults using Discord.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#34
post #11

I feel like in order to campfire business users, they would have to rebrand. Discord is a cool name for gamers, but maybe not for your average business person.

Slack does not seem like it would be good name for business use as well, and yet tons of businesses use it.

What I find amusing is that both of the names, intentionally or not, are related to mock-religions.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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post #29
post #5

In comparison to Teams, Discord is a godsend. I think the biggest problem in this space is a lack of quality competition.

Teams is an abomination, in other words it's a typical Microsoft product.

It really is. It doesn’t even make a casual attempt to adhere to MacOS interface guidelines. Even the notification system is completely custom and doesn’t work with the OS level system.

It’s insulting.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#36

Matrix or death.

Matrix is miles behind discord which saddens me. It's a good UI but to consider them in the same ballpark is pretty uncomparable to me

I had very high hopes for matrix because of the bridging capabilities but I was sorely disappointed after spending a couple hours to set it all up. Some of the bridges require violating the TOS for other applications, or going into the dev tools to copy cookies. Basically completely unapproachable for non-programmers. Once you have a bridge it's impossible to start a new chat with someone in another app. You need to start the chat in the other app, wait for the matrix bridge to be notified of the chat, and then you can continue the conversation in matrix.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#37
post #11

I feel like in order to campfire business users, they would have to rebrand. Discord is a cool name for gamers, but maybe not for your average business person.

Slack does not seem like it would be good name for business use as well, and yet tons of businesses use it.

It's incredible that two of the front-runner chat programs in 2021 are called Slack and Discord, yet neither name is, AFAIK, related to or inspired by the Church of the Subgenius or Discordianism in any way.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Every single Discord-related post here I see comments about the "bad ux". I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX, I find it pretty intuitive to be honest.

I'm also constantly seeing people in shock that people would choose to use Discord over IRC/Matrix/Teamspeak/Mumble. I find Discord to be light years ahead of anything else available, and for an average person who's going to have a hard time setting up any of those, the difference is even bigger. Plus, Discord's free, you don't have to host it, and all your friends and communities are already there. It's really a no brainer for most people.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#39
post #17

I despise discord. It's bloatware. It has constant popups that are difficult to disable. I do read their tech posts on HN, and they are always fascinating. But it seems to me like a product that the MBAs have taken a over.

Mind going into more details about the popups? Ive been using for years and cant say I've ever had a popup besides the occasional changelog.

This week they've been pushing some new Discord college spaces; asking me to connect my account to a .edu mail address. Believe I've seen the popup twice on my desktop, and once on mobile.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

#40
post #27

Interesting to read that Discord has received higher offers than previously reported, as high as $18 billion, yet Jason refuses to sell and hopes to go public. Good for him to sticking to his guns, I don’t think I could say no to $18 billion!

It's a chat app. I cannot imagine not selling for an offer like that. Your opportunities for what to do next would be unbounded.

Not if you’d sell them too :)
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