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True sign of success: HN doesn't get the appeal of the product and they wonder why people are using it. This have happened so many times, it's actually a good indicator.
Are you remembering the negative anecdotal evidence and disregarding the predictions that were right? Has anyone conducted a study of HN sentiments?
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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> but what is broken is that the people who have ultimate control of large public companies (in 90% of cases - founder controlled companies are a prominent exception) are the shareholders. And these are typically not domain experts, their main interest is in making money. So they generally see fit to appoint executives whose main objective is to make money and to remove those who care about anything else. What altern…
> 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…
If you really want to align the interests of the company with those of the users, you need something like a cooperative where the users are also the shareholders and you have to buy a membership to use the product.
Once again showing that a shitty interface isn't a problem if you can just advertise the right way.
Windows is still relevant too. Average people don't care about UX it seems.
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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.
I think corpos and normies are too polite to call someone out for heavy breathing at the microphone. I remember during my days of wow raiding hearing someone else's background or breathing noise during the raid was not acceptable.
That doesn't work well for gamers, for obvious reasons.
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I initially found discord UI a little confusing, not sure why. I use it all the time for work, and the layout is essentially the same as slacks. Admining servers is much nicer with discord.
Slack learned us to join and leave channels on purpose. This is something I totally miss with discord. There is always EVERYTHING at once hammering at me. For me a definitely not work friendly environment because it builds on distractions.
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>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…
Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well. The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.
Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps
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…
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Discord has done some shady stuff for quite some time. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...
Discord enumerates processes to discover OBS to turn on streamer mode, as well as being able to display what game you're playing. Disable the "share my current game" feature and there is no longer any ptracing
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.
Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.