To entrepreneurs: Please build good alternatives to Discord. Like many other commenters, I'd rather not use it. But, to fully switch, I need alternatives that are as easy to use as discord for non-technical users and accomplish the same benefits. Yes there are many alternatives but none that I'd prefer to switch to when considering the things I'd miss.
PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
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Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? It is different. Really Discord seems run by people with a vague understanding of security, attack vectors, let alone security best practices. (or maybe they are heavily biased towards the gaming audience - but regardless)
What do you mean? Because they seem to be very competent when it comes to software creation
They are very competent at bells and whistles and creating something for gamers
But in terms of identity management, they're awful
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#133I really don't think discord is special here. This happens with Google. This happens with Valve. This happens with Microsoft. I could go on...
Since the US doesn't seem to care about the life breaking powers these companies sometimes wield your only option is to never, and I repeat, never rely on this companies without an easy to use escape hatch.
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#134So discord is something I use for voice-chatting and shitposting with friends, typically while also playing video games. Can anyone tell me why they would ever use it for anything remotely serious? Can you tell me why you'd want to stake your livelihood on a walled garden designed for video game voice chat and sharing rickroll videos? Not only that, I can't take seriously a business that uses discord. Like, what are…
Discord is a very featureful chat and voice app that is similar to slack in terms of managed-ness but they have completely different roots. Slack is basically just business email but IMing instead of email, if you know what I mean. It's very business. Business happens there. Synergy and collaboration and so on. Discord, meanwhile, grew out of some combination of gaming/tech IRC servers and gaming ventrilo and teamspe…
Discord is slack that works, that's all
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#135Do. Not. Launch. On Discord. They are getting worse and worse towards their users. The “platform” was never designed for this, it’s painfully obvious. There’s no knowledge base, no support system, no sense of organization, no professionalism, just bots doing “stuff” as a product. Is FastAPI that hard? Is building a customer portal that difficult? I guess I’m showing my age but I use discord for gaming and chatting wi…
> However, the UX of discord is problematic towards anything other than a gaming community. Discord was built with a core target market and really they've nailed it. But I really have to wonder what a business is doing when they have their support chat or whatever on discord. I have no idea why someone thinks a chat platform that talks about school clubs, gaming groups, and art communities is the place to conduct bus…
I think it says a lot about the 'designed for business' apps that discord is doing well in competing with them despite not being designed for business. If Slack and Teams had any sense they would be taking notes from discord (Matrix is, which is good, but they are still lacking in implementation quality and the network effects are pretty killer)
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
> However, the UX of discord is problematic towards anything other than a gaming community. Discord was built with a core target market and really they've nailed it. But I really have to wonder what a business is doing when they have their support chat or whatever on discord. I have no idea why someone thinks a chat platform that talks about school clubs, gaming groups, and art communities is the place to conduct bus…
I think it says a lot about the 'designed for business' apps that discord is doing well in competing with them despite not being designed for business. If Slack and Teams had any sense they would be taking notes from discord (Matrix is, which is good, but they are still lacking in implementation quality and the network effects are pretty killer)
For me, it's more of a sign that the company isn't mature enough to use the correct tools and they've just used the chat system they use to chat with their buddies because it's easier.
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#137If you are relying on a third party social media platform for your business: - make sure you have at least 3 aged accounts that have full administrative privileges. When one gets banned make/buy a new one immediately. - never use a business account for personal reasons - use a third party service for the sms verification, and a unique email for each account. These three rules have kept me out of trouble in spite of r…
The only reason this works is they haven't taken you seriously yet. Sooner or later they will just ban all of them at once. Correlating them really isn't hard.
Yeah I don’t even change ip addresses.
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#138May I ask what the context of your message was? Presumably one of the people on that server reported you, and in the messages you posted, people seem taken aback (eg "did you just..."). I'm curious what the context was and why they took the impression it was unusual? What were these ASNs in relation to?
This piece seems to be missing for some unknown reason. What is the purpose of posting ASN and ISP physical addresses?
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> However, in May 2018, the company chose to close down these corresponding gateways due to limitations inherent in those protocols. It was a way to onboard tech people and once they were big enough they closed the door for those audience. Which really hurt me because i live in a country with a small tech community and was happily interacting with them using irc, until slack changed into a walled garden.
In fairness, can you imagine implementing all of Slack's features over IRC? Nightmare.
or... and stay with me here... you could not implement them for the IRC, but keep the gateway available for people who want to willing trade the "degraded" feature set for the ease and familiarity of a simple, low noise, low distraction environment.
Aka, not behaving in a user hostile way.
Dropping irc was more about control than it was about adding features.
Re: PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
#140Discord won't let you use a VOIP number so I can't even get on it
It's bizarre how inconsistent they are with this. I signed up with a shady anonymous email, only use it through a VPN and have given them no phone number, but they're still happy to let me use this account. I'm half convinced these companies inconsistently apply these sort of policies to sow doubt and get the users gaslighting each other about what the actual policies and rules are.
never ascribe maliciousness to what can be adequately explained by incompetence.