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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 atribecalledqst »

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.

We started using Teams at work and its UI is awful compared to Discord. The worst thing is notifications -- by default you get a popup for every single message that somebody sends. So then you change the settings to only pop up when somebody @s you. Good luck getting all your coworkers to do that; 90% of the time you will get a message and then just not see it for an hour because Teams didn't prompt you.

Discord solved this. Small red icon on the dock icon indicating that there are messages in a server you haven't muted. The icon changes to a number if you got a ping or DM.

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

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Post by themacguffinman »

ls15 wrote: post #77
ejj28 wrote: post #59

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For the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy, Discord is absolutely light years ahead. Personally, I don't mind that Discord doesn't have E2EE or self hosted servers, I think having those would severely degrade the experience. Discord works so well because it's unified and /I don't have to screw around with somebody's poorly self-hosted server on their rural internet. If I want to send top secret messa…

> the average person who isn't as concerned about privacy I think the average person does indeed care about privacy, otherwise we would use public bank accounts and would get rid of passwords, curtains and summer clothing. Most likely, most people do not fully understand all implications of all technical details and aren't making fully informed decisions.

Only if you cleverly conflate social privacy with data privacy and conflate security with privacy.

Ask someone how much they care that their bank details are known to the machines at Intuit when they setup their Mint account, or how much they care that random bank employees can see & manage their entire financial life when they call customer support or visit a teller.

Ask them how much they care that some machine somewhere in a Google datacenter is running an algorithm on every email they get.

In my experience, most people just want to keep parts of their lives private from people they know. They will upload nudes to iCloud and make jokes about FBI agents finding them.

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Post by nyolfen »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #33
nyolfen wrote: post #30

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it means it feels age-inappropriate for an adult to use, like hanging out at a children's arcade

Yeah, to me that is just conveying a total lack of awareness and tech snobbery. There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of adults using Discord.

i do not use poggers emojis or anime girl reactions in my conversations, or chat on platforms where mods have the arbitrary power to destroy your chat history. if you want to, that's fine, but it does not feel like a platform meant for people like me -- it feels like a platform for children and gamers

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Post by herbst »

Ekaros wrote: post #304
herbst wrote: post #252

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Windows is still relevant too. Average people don't care about UX it seems.

And what is the competition there outside Mac? I haven't yet felt at any time that Linux offered superior UX experience. Maybe I'm too used to Windows...

Maybe you are. Modern Linux desktops are nothing like they have been not to long ago. Personally I can't even imagine more productivity win than gnome shell.

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Post by jstummbillig »

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.

This perception of games is pretty outdated and I assume that is what Discord has come to realize as well. Video games (and gamers) are approaching to be as varied as music (and its listeners) and the only reason they have not achieved parity yet is the difference in how long each has been around as a mass medium.

Games have intrinsic qualities that set them apart from music, movies or other mediums – but being "fun" is certainly not it, and "gamery" would, at best, serve as a tautology.

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Post by dancemethis »

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…

It's proprietary and extremely hostile towards user privacy. There is no reason to use it.

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

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Post by MisterTea »

Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. Install, pick a name and go. I don't even remember creating an account, just typing in a nick name. Even on Void Linux Musl you can install it via flatpack, scan the qr code and you're logged in with all your servers and channels already there. You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast.

My great gripe? No 3rd party clients. It's also massively bloated for my need of sending a few bytes of text. For this reason I use it for just one server and to communicate with two friends and my brother.

Otherwise I use IRC where I'm on three networks and 26 channels. IRC is much less convenient for sure in terms of nick registering (some SOB took my name!) "back scroll" and persistence across clients/systems but it does 99% of what I want from a chat client: chatting via text.

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Post by SevenSigs »

MisterTea wrote: post #317

Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. Install, pick a name and go. I don't even remember creating an account, just typing in a nick name. Even on Void Linux Musl you can install it via flatpack, scan the qr code and you're logged in with all your servers and channels already there. You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast. My great gripe? No 3rd party clients. It's also massively bloated for my need o…

> No 3rd party clients.

I use a web browser to access Discord. But I would not use Discord for anything personal, only for public channels.

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Post by [deleted] »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #299
nkrisc wrote: post #278

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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.

On my open source project ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/

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

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Post by detaro »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #299
nkrisc wrote: post #278

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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.

On my open source project ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/

So you have your first "feature" for the "Filestash for Corporations" plan ;)
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