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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 andrekandre »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #273
nicoburns wrote: post #247

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Some things that could help: - Worker representation on company boards. Meaning that those who work on the product at an everyday level gain influence over the overall direction of the company. - Progressive taxation of corporations to bias our economy towards small companies that are more likely to care about their users, and to encourage more competitive markets. - Regulation to enforce interoperability and/or the…

Those are all interesting and viable proposition, but I would not say they have any relation to the “shareholder model” as you called it in your first post I responded to. All of those proposals, and shareholders, seem like they can co exist.

consumer co-op* (owners are the customers) might be an alternative

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers'_co-operative

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

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Post by drenvuk »

capableweb wrote: post #224
midnightGhost wrote: post #195

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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.

Sorry for this, it doesn't add to the conversation but it's lose*. Not loose, lose.

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

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Post by grey413 »

gchamonlive wrote: post #310
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.

They should just have a separate platform mode. Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.

Concord, obviously

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

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Post by sneak »

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…

The desktop client is spyware, and the chats aren’t e2e encrypted.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

bruce343434 wrote: post #175
alpaca128 wrote: post #115

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What's intuitive about having to click one of the tiniest buttons in a corner of the screen to disconnect voice chat? I literally killed the process a couple times when I started using Discord because I couldn't find it. Why can I double-click to join a channel but not leave with any UI in the same area? It also took me a while to figure out how to quit the damn thing. The only way seems to be right-clicking the tray…

How about clicking the bright red phone hang up button. Other than that, most chat apps minimize to tray these days. You can toggle that behavior in the settings. With your last point, I agree. It's just inherent to being an electron app I guess.

> How about clicking the bright red phone hang up button.

That isn't always there. If you navigate away from the voice channel page to read something, your only option is that tiny little button on the corner; or navigating back to the voice channel page, which is unintuitive itself.

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Post by lolsal »

southerntofu wrote: post #154
lloydatkinson wrote: post #120

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> I wish more businesses could be content to just get to the point where they are making money, and then just keep making that much money and being ok with that. Blame execs and CEOs and boards for not being content

Blame capitalism for aiming for profit, not actual service to people.

You're welcome to start your own altruistic chat service for the people, if you'd like.

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Post by anthony_r »

gchamonlive wrote: post #310
d3nj4l wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

They should just have a separate platform mode. Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.

Discord B8s = Discord Baits?

You're trying to pull a YouTube Red here?

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

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Post by deerIRL »

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.

As far as I know this is still in A/B testing as well, and not a fully rolled out feature. I've had a friend with it for the better part of the year, yet I have yet to get the option on any of my servers.

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

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Post by relativ575 »

lmm wrote: post #232
mihaifm wrote: post #104

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Problem is the tech world is changing very fast. If you're going to sit idle hoping to make the same amount of cash every year, you're going to disappear within 5-6 years. Not liking where Discord is headed either, just saying some change is necessary not only for growing, but for staying relevant.

I'm not convinced - in my friend group Discord would never have got a chance if Skype had left well enough alone and not tried to fix what wasn't broken. Instead they added more and more bloat, which created the opportunity that Discord then stepped into.

It's impossible to tell if Skype becoming irrelevant was due to new bloated features, new features that were badly implemented, or just that their users wanted to play with a new shinny tool that happened to be good and gradually moved there. They could have stayed put without adding any new features and would still be beaten by Discord.
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