twitch web client sucks and breaks every time. discord > curse too. amazon is full of ego
Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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I'm not familiar with it, so how is discord a competitor to twitch? It looks like a newer TeamSpeak to me.
Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity? Only thing I can think of.
Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily.
Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters.
Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of languages. Overall, Discord (despite using an electron app...) is simply a better chatting product.
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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Discord is starting to reveal their ability to pull streamer communities off of Twitch. This is most likely a bulkhead acquisition to anticipate the growth of Discord and to try and keep those same streamers in the fold. Twitch gets the massive community reach of Curse, plus they also get all the current momentum Curse has to be a Discord competitor. It's a fantastic acquisition, if a little defensive.
I'm not familiar with it, so how is discord a competitor to twitch? It looks like a newer TeamSpeak to me.
Think of Discord as like TeamSpeak and Slack combined. Streamers use Discord as a place to house their viewers and community when they're not streaming. Having a TwitchChat outside of TwitchChat is actually pretty powerful for streamers and a potentially crucial part of their setup. Twitch needed to invest in something like that.
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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I'm not familiar with it, so how is discord a competitor to twitch? It looks like a newer TeamSpeak to me.
Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity? Only thing I can think of.
Twitch has been trying to hire front end devs and they're failing at hosting anything more than a video stream. They should have acquired discord, but instead the two failing companies curse and twitch are teaming up
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
#15Curse is terrible. It's like the (current) Sourceforge of gaming sites. I seriously don't know why Twitch/Amazon would consider acquiring it.
Discord is starting to reveal their ability to pull streamer communities off of Twitch. This is most likely a bulkhead acquisition to anticipate the growth of Discord and to try and keep those same streamers in the fold. Twitch gets the massive community reach of Curse, plus they also get all the current momentum Curse has to be a Discord competitor. It's a fantastic acquisition, if a little defensive.
I am amazed Discord itself has not been acquired yet. It looks like it was effectively designed to be acquired. They have no functional business, and have to be in the market. I've commented before I expected someone like Twitch to pick them up. Maybe Twitch didn't like the price?
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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Discord is starting to reveal their ability to pull streamer communities off of Twitch. This is most likely a bulkhead acquisition to anticipate the growth of Discord and to try and keep those same streamers in the fold. Twitch gets the massive community reach of Curse, plus they also get all the current momentum Curse has to be a Discord competitor. It's a fantastic acquisition, if a little defensive.
I am amazed Discord itself has not been acquired yet. It looks like it was effectively designed to be acquired. They have no functional business, and have to be in the market. I've commented before I expected someone like Twitch to pick them up. Maybe Twitch didn't like the price?
I actually disagree that Discord doesn't have a functional business. They have massive growth and many many top teams, streamer personalities etc use their services.
If Discord becomes a critical component to the content creators of the whole gaming ecosystem, there's going to be plenty of revenue opportunities.
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I am amazed Discord itself has not been acquired yet. It looks like it was effectively designed to be acquired. They have no functional business, and have to be in the market. I've commented before I expected someone like Twitch to pick them up. Maybe Twitch didn't like the price?
I actually disagree that Discord doesn't have a functional business. They have massive growth and many many top teams, streamer personalities etc use their services. If Discord becomes a critical component to the content creators of the whole gaming ecosystem, there's going to be plenty of revenue opportunities.
As I just said, and you confirmed: Discord doesn't have a functional business. Discord currently makes no money. "Opportunites" are just that, opportunities. A lottery ticket is an opportunity, but it is not a business.
Discord promises it will always be free with "no gotchas". It specifically notes no "slot limitations" as an example of that, which indicates premium tiers are unlikely. They promise to never charge for core functionality. Presumably they may be able to do some sponsored promotion of some sort, but banner ads are probably out.
The revenue plan they mention is here: "In the future there will be optional cosmetics like themes, sticker packs, and sound packs available for purchase." And I have not ever seen an emoji pack for a chat service as an appealing sales item that's going to fund a startup. I'm super skeptical of this, and it's why I don't use it.
But, it'd make a solid acquisition for a company like Twitch that has a shoddy/simple chat function and needs something better in the gaming space.
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
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Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity? Only thing I can think of.
Twitch has been trying to hire front end devs and they're failing at hosting anything more than a video stream. They should have acquired discord, but instead the two failing companies curse and twitch are teaming up
Can you expand upon the "failing" nature of these companies? On first sniff, I'm catching the same scent that rises from the last several decades of people proclaiming Microsoft is on the way out.
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Are streamers hosting their chats on Discord as opposed to Twitch's chat system, which tends to break down after a certain level of activity? Only thing I can think of.
Full Disclosure: I really like Discord, and use Twitch daily. Discord has more easily manageable chat roles, eg: Moderator, Helper, Regular, Supporter, etc. Twitch chat is nothing more than simple IRC, and relies almost entirely on bots for the more complicated stuff. Discord also has voice chat built in, whereas Twitch has none for their chatters. Discord also has a better documented API and libraries in a lot of la…
"despite being an electron app", I'm way happier using Discord than I am using either Hipchat or Skype.
Discord is a really well-put-together app, has text and voice chat that do their jobs, and get out of the way. The only complaint I have is that there's little to no support for searching history, but for an app focusing on live "community" chats, that seems a reasonable compromise.
Re: Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse
#20Discord will likely grow to the value of Twitch was at (when it was acquired by Amazon) in the next couple years, it's a really big space.