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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 fnomnom »

neither_color wrote: post #23
AnnoyedComment wrote: post #4

Once again showing that a shitty interface isn't a problem if you can just advertise the right way.

I feel like a boomer when it comes to discord because lots of niche information, utilities, mods, and discussions that I used to google search for and find on forums and subreddits have moved to discord servers and as a non social gamer I find it chaotic and cluttered. I suppose it's different for people who grew up using it to play games with their friends as it became their go-to community tool. For example if I wa…

for me its just like irc. irc was used to organize tech and gaming communities for years and years and was not really more user friendly or organized.

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

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Post by tester34 »

dudus wrote: post #119
tester34 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

MSFT Teams, Slack, Google Chat. Hate as much as you want but there's virtually no difference in terms of capabilities among these players.

>MSFT Teams

>Allow users to enable push to talk in group meetings

>2021-06-01

>Thank you for your continued feedback, we have not forgotten about this ask. The feature remains on our backlog. We will share an update as soon as one is available.

>In the meantime, you can try using the keyboard shortcut to toggle mute (Ctrl+Shift+M)

It has 3400 votes since 2017(!)

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...

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and yes, this feature is important because switching between apps just to mute/unmute yourself is terrible experience and

this problem has been solved like 2 decades ago or more with PUSH2TALK.

It makes gaming or even coding and streaming and talking while having people at home

(especially now, during WFH/pandemic) annoying as hell.

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The rest I didn't check.

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

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Post by buro9 »

A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room.

If your team is on-call and incident management could be improved, just try putting your team in a Discord room and see what happens. Don't put managers in there, just the engineers.

It works great.

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

#134

Post by hhsbz »

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…

I use discord only for gaming but the entire app was full of text strings that made me cringe. I'm glad they have got rid of them.

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

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Post by p1necone »

tester34 wrote: post #132
dudus wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MSFT Teams, Slack, Google Chat. Hate as much as you want but there's virtually no difference in terms of capabilities among these players.

>MSFT Teams >Allow users to enable push to talk in group meetings >2021-06-01 >Thank you for your continued feedback, we have not forgotten about this ask. The feature remains on our backlog. We will share an update as soon as one is available. >In the meantime, you can try using the keyboard shortcut to toggle mute (Ctrl+Shift+M) It has 3400 votes since 2017(!) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-publ…

Yeah I also find it really weird that push to talk only ever surfaces in gaming focused voice chat. It's useful for any situation with more than a couple of people, especially when they're typing while on the call.

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

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Post by dewey »

buro9 wrote: post #133

A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room. If your team is on-call and incident management could be improved, just try putting your team in a Discord room and see what happens. Don't put managers in there, just the engineers. It works great.

> A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room.

Slack just added this recently: https://slack.com/intl/en-de/help/articles/4402059015315-Sta...

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

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Post by alophawen »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #69
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 a protocol, not a UI. There are many Matrix clients with vastly different UIs and UX. To distil Matrix down to a 'UI' is missing the entire point of Matrix. It is like email, it will inevitably become ubiquitous. 35m users so far: https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explode... There's a reason that governments, militaries and healthcare systems are choosing Matrix over Discord! I've bridged…

> Can Discord do that? Nope.

I use discord to relay in game chat from the game Everquest to my phone. Surely it can relay other types of text, too.

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

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

dewey wrote: post #136
buro9 wrote: post #133

A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room. If your team is on-call and incident management could be improved, just try putting your team in a Discord room and see what happens. Don't put managers in there, just the engineers. It works great.

> A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room. Slack just added this recently: https://slack.com/intl/en-de/help/articles/4402059015315-Sta...

Telegram also added this a few months ago.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

cfgghsj wrote: post #68
ejj28 wrote: post #38

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…

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.

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