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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 Macha »

Tenoke wrote: post #166
vbezhenar wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I assume you use workarounds like separate browsers/browser groups/1 in browser 1 in app. In slack for example, you can have completely separate accounts that you control through the same window/app and I haven't seen the option for that in Discord.

I just use Firefox containers here. One tab in one container for personal, one tab in one container for more professional contexts. Having container tabs rather than private mode or separate browsers lets me have them in one window.

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

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Post by perryizgr8 »

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

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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.

> Google Chat ... virtually no difference in terms of capabilities

Gchat has probably 10% of the features of Teams/Slack, and even those don't work. As an example, try to copy the link to a gchat thread.

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

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Post by petre »

d3nj4l wrote: post #199
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…

> 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. This is funny because my impression was that Discord users by and large hated those messages.

Not using Discord but I always compile my pure-ftpd with the --without-humor and --with-boring flags. Funny is relative.

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

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Post by capableweb »

midnightGhost wrote: post #195
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…

Discord now lets you change your username and avatar per server. Though to have a different avatar on different servers you need nitro.

Still doesn't solve the problem. In Discord you only have one account, loose access to that account for some reason, you loose access to both private and work related matters.

Instead, if Discord want to be taken seriously, need to allow multiple accounts on the same device, so people can switch between things.

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

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Post by Ekaros »

cblconfederate wrote: post #114

There is a huge wave of transitions from reddit/ forums towards discord because it offers voice chat / image uploads for free. It's not gonna last at that, chat is a bad format compared to hierarchical replies, hard to search etc. Gaming is their niche but at some point games will want to stop bleeding their community to them. There is also a proliferation of communities which leads to a lot of activity because it's…

I see it as complementary service. Reddit and forums aren't really suitable for chatting. Where as discord wills that niche very well. So communities will consist of forum/sub-reddit and a chat on Discord. One is more permanent and one is more ephemeral...

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Post by herbst »

WitCanStain wrote: post #144
konschubert wrote: post #128

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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?

Discord was horrible bloated software to begin with, and bloat only got worse. Nothing of value will be lost, chatting is no rocket science.

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

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Post by capableweb »

Macha wrote: post #221
Tenoke wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you use workarounds like separate browsers/browser groups/1 in browser 1 in app. In slack for example, you can have completely separate accounts that you control through the same window/app and I haven't seen the option for that in Discord.

I just use Firefox containers here. One tab in one container for personal, one tab in one container for more professional contexts. Having container tabs rather than private mode or separate browsers lets me have them in one window.

Yeah, you basically have multiple different browser identities that you use as a workaround since Discord doesn't support multiple identities "natively" in their own platform.

So, we're right back to where this conversation started, that Discord doesn't support multiple identities.

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

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Post by raspyberr » 

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Gosh, I really feel like I've spoken to professional support. Considering they didn't fix my issue, this sort of response is pretty annoying.

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

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Post by skhr0680 »

rb666 wrote: post #211
d3nj4l wrote: post #199

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> 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. This is funny because my impression was that Discord users by and large hated those messages.

You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.

A lot of times when apps try to be cute I wish they would just STFU and do the thing I want them to

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

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Post by herbst »

southerntofu wrote: post #177
hhsbz wrote: post #159

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https://i.imgur.com/dy13lcm.png The entire app was full of crap like this - it's not funny or quirky, it's practically baby talk.

That's pretty cringy indeed, though i must say i laughed at the idea of a program snuggling into my systray :) Not sure how well that would localize in other languages though. Thanks for the examples!

> Not sure how well that would localize in other languages though. Thanks for the examples!

Not well at all. Making it even more cringe worthy

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