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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 by hammyhavoc »

vultour wrote: post #94
hammyhavoc wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'average person' is not uncommonly switching to Matrix. Even non-technically savvy people are asking how to do it following Apple's PR disaster. You clearly don't understand Matrix. Dendrite introduces a hybrid-P2P model, ergo home servers become largely irrelevant, and portable identities become a thing. Can Discord work offline P2P via Bluetooth LE? Nope.

You live in a bubble. Nobody I know has ever heard of matrix, and that's including the tech people.

No, I live in the UK where everyday 'normies' are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy and overreach by big-tech.

I can only speak as I find it.

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

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Post by TulliusCicero »

nyolfen wrote: post #30
asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #28

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

Do I need to bust out the CS Lewis quote? This sounds like the attitude of a person entirely too concerned about how serious and mature everything around them is.

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

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Post by wellthisisgreat »

ndespres wrote: post #20
0des wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are we approaching 2022 and I still cannot click-to-reply in Teams?

Or alt+tab into Teams on macOS?

cmd+tab+alt - the shortcut for bringing the hidden window to foreground

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

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Post by mihaifm »

sadness3 wrote: post #93

I have a bad feeling about this. Discord essentially does one thing really well. I don't want to see it go down the way of so many chat platforms trying to be everything and becoming a bloated mess. Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt. It makes me despair of business models which re…

Problem is the tech world is changing very fast. If you're going to sit idle hoping to make the same amount of cash every year, you're going to disappear within 5-6 years. Not liking where Discord is headed either, just saying some change is necessary not only for growing, but for staying relevant.

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

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Post by TulliusCicero »

ls15 wrote: post #53
sodality2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Matrix is miles behind discord which saddens me. In which way? Discord is miles behind Matrix in terms of privacy features. It does not even support e2ee for PMs or self-hosted servers or federation. They probably don't even plan to implement that ever. That's an instant knockout for Discord for me. There is no way that I willingly let companies read my private communication in 2021 after everything that we learned…

> In which way? Discord is miles behind Matrix in terms of privacy features. It does not even support e2ee for PMs or self-hosted servers or federation. They probably don't even plan to implement that ever.

I actually laughed out loud as I read this.

I mean I'm sure you're not wrong, it's just that vanishingly few people do or will care about self-hosted servers or federation. Hell, if anything those would be anti-selling points, since it almost invariably complicates the UX, especially for initial setup.

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

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Post by scanr »

I use teams at work. I hadn’t used discord much but then did for a hackthebox CTF.

I found discord way better for work that involves dynamic collaboration ie where folk are often working individually or jumping into each other’s streams to work together.

To achieve something similar in teams we have an open all day meeting that people pop into but it’s sub par vs the discord model.

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

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Post by tester34 »

noobermin wrote: post #65
Gunax wrote: 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.

Too bad their users in particular aren't the kind to be open minded to other platforms, they just follow the crowd. As an answer to the headline, they'll fail in their attempts to gain in other avenues because not everyone is a follower like gamers are.

Could you name at least two other platforms that offer at least

Decent chat (file sharing, emojis, support for code snippets), decent voice chat, decent streaming and supports PUSH2TALK button? and I personally prefer when it is not self-hosted due to DDoS risk

Because I'm unable to name and that's why I started using Discord

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

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Post by MarcusE1W »

riffic wrote: post #29
plugger wrote: 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.

I have to admit I am almost surprised by this. Microsoft has quite some experience with bad chat software. You would think they learned one or two things that they can do better. I

I have to work with Teams every day and many times I wonder who thought the way it works is a good idea? There are so many other decent products mentioned here like Discord, Mattermost, Slack. Just nick a few ideas from each and set up a not exciting but equally decent chat software. Somehow Microsoft managed to make it worse ..

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