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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 5e92cb50239222b »

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

I don't know about streaming (have no use for it and it sounds like a kitchen sink), but Telegram has everything else you've listed.

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

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Post by hfjek »

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?

Νἰցɡϱṙ

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

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Post by widerporst »

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.

I haven't used Google Chat yet, but Teams and Slack just feel very sluggish on my slow-ish work ultrabook. Switching between chats or starting a call takes two seconds while Electron gobbles all CPU and RAM it can get. Discord on the other hand feels almost like a native app.

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

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Post by WitCanStain »

konschubert wrote: post #128
mihaifm wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That sounds horrible. We should focus on making good products that last a long time. What is the point of making something new and almost identical every 5 years?

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

#145

Post by leshenka »

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…

> and becoming a bloated mess

too late

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

#146

Post by rightbyte »

SmooL wrote: post #57

I've used discord for a number of years, and use it almost daily with my friends. Arguments over UX will always be opinionated, but one thing where discord absolutely shines is voice chat. There's just no competition to any other voice chat system out there; it's fast, it's high quality, and most importantly, it filters out non-voices. Clapping, water faucet, vacuums, crunching chips, coughing, breathing, desk noises…

> There's just no competition to any other voice chat system out there

Steam's voice chat is nice. Somehow low latency VOIP where you don't interrupt eachother due to lag is something only gamers need ...

Skype used to be good too. Somewhere down the line they switched to some high latency mess.

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

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Post by danuker »

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…

Discord has done some shady stuff for quite some time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...

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

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Post by tester34 »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #141
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

I don't know about streaming (have no use for it and it sounds like a kitchen sink), but Telegram has everything else you've listed.

I'm not sure what do you mean by "kitchen sink", but at work we do often share screen with eachothers

e.g when somebody needs help with something / to help debug something or show current version of app to my product owner.

It's very handy feature

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

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Post by speedgoose »

danuker wrote: post #147
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…

Discord has done some shady stuff for quite some time. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...

I use Discord in a web browser for these reasons. The web sandbox has benefits.

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

#150

Post by stared »

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 have the same feeling.

If they succeed, they will become Slack 2. If they don't, they will sink their ship.

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