Discord's come a long way on this stuff. About a year ago they started getting used by hate groups for organizing and I was worried the platform would get taken over by bad people. I don't know that they've solved all the social problems but at least they're making an honest effort.
As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
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Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#12Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little. I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipcha…
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
> Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack
I see several reasons.
1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead.
2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#13It's cool seeing an Elixir company have such explosive growth.
Elixir is part of their great performance! Their engineering blog is really interesting and full of neat information scaling Elixir (which is really hard to find since Elixir scales for a VERY long time).
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it h…
> It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym. So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
I was under the impression anyone could join who had the server address?
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it h…
> It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym. So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
your account name is not the same as your display name, which you can customize on a per-server basis. Also, signups are done via email. And your "username" is not unique by design, it gives you a numeric identity alongside it (much like how Blizzard's battle tags work).
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#16Discord's come a long way on this stuff. About a year ago they started getting used by hate groups for organizing and I was worried the platform would get taken over by bad people. I don't know that they've solved all the social problems but at least they're making an honest effort.
It's used by all kinds of groups. Developers, gamers, but also left and right groups, etc.
I don't understand what the problem is if someone who supports something I don't like (be it alt-right, liberal, whatever) uses the platform, as long as he doesn't bother me personally :/
(My account was just banned by sctb for this ;P)
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#17It's cool seeing an Elixir company have such explosive growth.
Elixir is part of their great performance! Their engineering blog is really interesting and full of neat information scaling Elixir (which is really hard to find since Elixir scales for a VERY long time).
They also have open sourced a number of tools that offer tremendous value to anyone scaling Elixir.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#18Discord's come a long way on this stuff. About a year ago they started getting used by hate groups for organizing and I was worried the platform would get taken over by bad people. I don't know that they've solved all the social problems but at least they're making an honest effort.
It's used by all kinds of groups. Developers, gamers, but also left and right groups, etc. I don't understand what the problem is if someone who supports something I don't like (be it alt-right, liberal, whatever) uses the platform, as long as he doesn't bother me personally :/ (My account was just banned by sctb for this ;P)
American Nazis were using it to organize the Charlottesville demonstration. That's not a form of legal liability nor brand identification you want. https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/26/discord-chats-may-help-c...
Also the bad people never stay confined to their private hate club. See the linked article here about "raids" on other channels or literally the entire history of Internet social media.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#19Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little. I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipcha…
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
One major roadblock is there is no concept of separate identities managed under one login, or switching accounts easily. I think there is a half-way-there "server nickname" option new this year but it's not quite the same. The primary motivation for most is a clear separation between personal and professional.
https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-...
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S...
Anecdata:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292
Some people consider this a positive.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
Its easier to get businesses to use Discord than to get gamers to use Slack.
Turns out 'free' is a good selling point