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> MS Teams does not set [...] "currently coding in VS Code" as my publicly visible status at work Don't worry, Discord will!
Will it? At least under Linux it tries to only show things it thinks are games.
Not the same as native support, but in fairness, I was being tongue in cheek!
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…
What does it do well? I'm genuinely asking.
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> What alternatives are there? Worker representation on boards is one example. Imagine if the board of public companies was 50% shareholders and 50% workers. > The most profitable public companies seem to invest quite heavily in long term investments and have long term planning. This does not seem to square with your statement. The most profitable companies yes, but not necessarily the ones making the most money for…
Nothing stops workers right now to buy shares and appoint someone to the board.
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You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.
Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.
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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?
In my limited experience Discord seems almost identical to Slack but with a much worse UI. Combine that with the fact that belonging to more than one server quickly becomes overwhelming (again, largely due to crappy UX) I’m concerned about how many communities are utilising it. Can somebody that likes it explain why it seems to be doing so well?
Have you used the slack client with more than one server? Last time I did the whole UI would reload when you switched. Discord took off because: * The message search is much better than free tiers of slack * You don't need to set up a separate account per server * It didn't have the user limits of Teamspeak * It didn't have the ads of Skype * A big inflection point was Skype launching their desktop client that was ba…
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> 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. IRC does one thing and does it well. Discord is the bloated mess.
No, IRC does one thing and does it poorly. I love IRC for the great communities it has spawned but there are many issues with IRC including how you must have an IRC bouncer.
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You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.
Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.
To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/
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What does it do well? I'm genuinely asking.
Voice chat. It is superior to any other platform on this aspect other than TeamSpeak. We regularly have 40+ people in voice channels without people suffering from connection issues, bad audio quality, and lot's of noise.