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Do you have a few examples, for someone who's never used Discord?
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.
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Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
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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.
why is calling yourself a "good boy" twice so much more unsettling than doing it once?
One "good boy" and you're talking about puppies. Three "good boys" and now you've entered the realm of BDSM.
Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#353I 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…
That’s why I use basecamp - they’re explicit and clear about staying small and profitable enough, with zero ambition for infinite growth.
The company I work use basecamp and I love it!
The only thing I wish it had is subcomments like slack.
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> blind to the needs of their customers Idk, one could argue that if doing so increases profits, then on average, you actually solved the needs of your customers. Sometimes that means replacing one customer with another whos willing to pay more.
> one could argue that if doing so increases profits, then on average, you actually solved the needs of your customers Which often isn't the case. Companies have lots of priorities that have nothing to do with end users at all. For example: - it does not matter how good your product is, if your company dies because there's a competitor that does not need to make profit and can temporarily offer their services for fre…
> capitalism disincentivises companies from serving their customers well, but instead incentivizes gaming the system.
If there is a system, people will try to game it. Whether in capitalism or communism or any other system of rules.
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Not specific to discord, but what's broken is that work is organized to maximize personal profit of shareholders (and the remuneration and other privileges of managers), not to benefit users/society. I'm not against people profiting from their activity, in the broad sense of the word (though i'm personally opposed to money as a tool/concept). But profit-driven social organization has lead to many avoidable disasters:…
Shareholder who? Why would I, a shareholder, want corporations to pursue business strategies that leads to avoidable disaster and ultimately loss of profit?
Because you'll sell before the disaster.
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#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
> one could argue that if doing so increases profits, then on average, you actually solved the needs of your customers Which often isn't the case. Companies have lots of priorities that have nothing to do with end users at all. For example: - it does not matter how good your product is, if your company dies because there's a competitor that does not need to make profit and can temporarily offer their services for fre…
> capitalism disincentivises companies from serving their customers well, but instead incentivizes gaming the system. If there is a system, people will try to game it. Whether in capitalism or communism or any other system of rules.
Of course. But I'm talking about being rewarded due to inherent rewards associated in the system by gaming it. There is a difference between a system that punishes bad behavior vs. a system that rewards it.
Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#357Discord is big tech, and a decentralized solution is better.
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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.
Agreed.
I personally found them to be like "wow, look how hip we are young children".
Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#359I 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…
Growth and change is why they exist. Its why they might replace things in other sectors and so make those sectors better.
Its why they might fail and make things worse, at which point, it is why someone else will come along to try and make things better.
Sometimes things are best left alone, but if this is attempted generally, then it'll probably lead to a stagnant pond, rather than a pleasant lake. Fresh flowing water is key.
Also, not sure how many agree with you on the cutesy humour. Maybe, it was just time for that to go.
Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else
#360I kind of like this, assuming they don't change their software too much(or at all).
Discords voice channels are the perfect replacement for "watercooler conversations" for the remote working age.