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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 cblconfederate »

tester34 wrote: post #111
hamburgerwah wrote: post #105

Discord is the classic freemium monopoly trap. They want to capture market share with a walled garden and once they do they will alter the terms to milk out every last drop of revenue they can before everyone jumps ship to the new new thing.

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, but it's not must have. and is e.g F/OSS? Because I'm unable to name and that's why I started using Discord

Would you also like fries with that? Of course you arent going to get the same for $0 (discord is not free, you re just wasting investor money).

Mattermost is the best self-hosted alternative and it works great for the chat part. Dont know about the rest.

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

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Post by lloydatkinson »

Many software development communities are on Discord. General purpose ones as well as specific ones. There's one for Vue and a wannabe-official C#/.NET one (that's also pretty toxic unfortunately), and ones for other big frameworks and languages.

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

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Post by Arathorn »

feanaro wrote: post #96
cfgghsj wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried to ask the Matrix devs about room emotes being broken on Android (though they work on web) and they just ignored me completely. Matrix is simply half baked and somehow barely works so that I keep using it. But they aren't even close to the point where things just work.

How are room emotes broken on Android?

this is probably complaining that custom emoji aren’t implemented properly yet.

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

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Post by gotbeans »

Amasuriel wrote: post #52

I’ve used discord for a long time and greatly prefer it to slack, teams and Mattermost (the three competitors I’ve used most often). Ironically the only think stopping me from strongly advocating for its adoption in business is that I’m already a user! Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely shoul…

> Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely should not mix.

I think there are quite other social networks that tried to retain the "universal identity" idea while completely and entirely missing this point.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #71
ejj28 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy, Discord is absolutely light years ahead. Personally, I don't mind that Discord doesn't have E2EE or self hosted servers, I think having those would severely degrade the experience. Discord works so well because it's unified and /I don't have to screw around with somebody's poorly self-hosted server on their rural internet. If I want to send top secret messa…

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.

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

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Post by vbezhenar »

nottorp wrote: post #116
Amasuriel wrote: post #52

I’ve used discord for a long time and greatly prefer it to slack, teams and Mattermost (the three competitors I’ve used most often). Ironically the only think stopping me from strongly advocating for its adoption in business is that I’m already a user! Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely shoul…

> Much like GitHub and to a lesser extent teams, they seem to not get the idea that I have different personas related to different parts of my life that absolutely should not mix. This. It's pretty much impossible to run several identities on Discord. If we ever move work to it i want it separate from my gaming discords.

I don't understand why is it impossible to run several identities? I have one account for work and one personal account for gaming. It is possible for me and I did not have any issues.

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

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Post by themacguffinman »

mihaifm wrote: post #104
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.

This is exactly what happened to Teamspeak, they sat on their arses for ages without changing much of anything. Now it's hard to imagine them getting back any major market share in popular communities ever again. That seems like a death sentence for a social application.

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

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Post by konschubert »

mihaifm wrote: post #104
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.

Maybe that's okay.

Be THE product for half a decade, make your money, close up, next venture.

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

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Post by hocuspocus »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #122

Many software development communities are on Discord. General purpose ones as well as specific ones. There's one for Vue and a wannabe-official C#/.NET one (that's also pretty toxic unfortunately), and ones for other big frameworks and languages.

Discord can thank GitLab there. Gitter had pretty much conquered that entire space before its acquisition.
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