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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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dcow wrote: post #394
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…

The casual brand is great, but those loading antics are dumb. Nobody actually likes them. This is great news, Discord really, badly, needs multi account support, screen-share and video in stage channels, an alternate pricing option/model where a server can be paid for by a company or organization instead of individuals (which would remove stream quality and upload file size limits), sso support, and possibly server D…

> an alternate pricing option/model where a server can be paid for by a company or organization instead of individuals (which would remove stream quality and upload file size limits)

What's stopping an organization from buying multiple server boosts from a single account to unlock these features? If you need the level 3 perks, you can have a single account, owned by the organization, purchase the 30 server boosts to get there.

Or am I misunderstanding the problem?

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

meowface wrote: post #414
blackearl wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm definitely in the camp of "don't patronize me with being a 'silly' corporation". I don't believe you, you're trying to make money, trying to be pals with me grosses me out.

Yeah. As the kids say, it's "peak cringe".

totes cringe fam

yeet that shit outta here

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

anthony_r wrote: post #388
gchamonlive wrote: post #310

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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?

Nah, just the trend of the first letter + number of middle letters + last letter abbreviation scheme, like K8s for Kubernetes, and i18n for internationalization.

B8s = Business

...except then it would be B6s...unless the parent meant "Discord Businesses"?

Now I don't even know.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

Isthatablackgsd wrote: post #379
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…

> Discord is easy to use which is why its so popular. I found this phrasing subjective because I don't find it easier to use. I tried Discord Web, Desktop & mobile, frankly they are not easier to use for me. I found it confusing because I suddenly need to have a role assigned to me. For that, I have to go through loops and hopping on subchannels to get myself a role for me to be able to have a conversation. One serve…

> I found it confusing because I suddenly need to have a role assigned to me. For that, [...]

Not every Discord server is configured like that. With many, you just add the server and start chatting. Some servers use the "role" thing to slow down spam and force an acknowledgement of the server rules.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

ulzeraj wrote: post #165
p1necone wrote: post #135

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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.

> someone else's background or breathing noise

NVIDIA Broadcast (Previously called RTX Voice) is a godsend for those scenarios.

If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out. It is absolutely magical. https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE

Sadly, AFAIK, it does require an NVIDIA GPU, but it doesn't need an RTX card. I used it on my GTX 1070 and it worked wonderfully.

What's really amazing about it is that you can use it to filter incoming voice audio, so if you have someone in your channel that has tons of background noise or breathing, you can filter it out on your own side.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

account42 wrote: post #288
square_usual wrote: post #269

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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.

By default, no.

But you can enable it on a per-app basis.

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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

basisword wrote: post #197

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?

The fact that so many people on HN seem to hate the Discord UX is baffling to me. I don't get it. Discord's UX is just fine, IMO.

Maybe it's because Discord was targeted towards gamers, and I'm a gamer that had no problem understanding its UI?

If you join more than a dozen servers, yeah it can be a bit overwhelming, but Discord lets you put servers into groups, similar to how phones let you put apps into groups.

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

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Post by thrwyoilarticle »

Mengkudulangsat wrote: post #206
basisword wrote: post #197

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?

I don't use Discord for gaming, but I do (reluctantly) have to use it for volunteering work. One day I discovered Discord sets my status as "currently playing Game X" for everyone to see, to my horror! What an absurd privacy violation.

You're angry because you connected your game account to it?

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

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Post by anthony_r »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #424
anthony_r wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discord B8s = Discord Baits? You're trying to pull a YouTube Red here?

Nah, just the trend of the first letter + number of middle letters + last letter abbreviation scheme, like K8s for Kubernetes, and i18n for internationalization. B8s = Business ...except then it would be B6s...unless the parent meant "Discord Businesses"? Now I don't even know.

B - eight - s
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