Let's hope that Discord doesn't end up going the way of Slack. Since Slack got overconfident over Microsoft Teams and lost and got acquired by Salesforce.
For almost 30 billion.
Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft
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#12so.... Discord will be a hellscape in 3-5 years as its inevitably destroyed by corporate greed?
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#13What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?
It provides a nicer user experience overall.
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#14What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?
It's been a fucking amazing product from day one and they have a lot of features. I only wish they release a non gaming branded version
What would a non-gaming version distinguish from the current one?
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#15Considering the state of Teams they really needed Discord for their amazing technology of actually being semi responsive
Teams definitely feels like it was rushed to market to take advantage of the pandemic. I'm really sad our company moved us from Slack to Teams. It's so much worse, especially on Linux
Teams has been rushed to market 4 years ago..
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#16What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?
Makes the users feel like the devs care.
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#17What about Discord besides network effect makes it a desirable holding? Do they have any technological advantage?
It’s one of the most popular destinations for gaming/tech discussion rooms and teamtalk (during games) what they do, they do really well, that’s their advantage.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been a fucking amazing product from day one and they have a lot of features. I only wish they release a non gaming branded version
What would a non-gaming version distinguish from the current one?
It's hard to pitch discord in the workplace, especially against an incumbent like Slack or Teams. It comes across as very "casual" and unprofessional, which is a shame, because it really is a top-quality product.
It's never seemed to be a focus of Discord, it's just the niche they've chosen. Even their own homepage description doesn't mention work:
> Whether you’re part of a school club, gaming group, worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.
A business version would need 1st-party integrations with GSuite/LDAP/OAuth (you can work around this with a bot but that's already a negative). It needs audit log features, retention rules (for ATIP requests and the like), less gaming icons, a disabled game shop, strip out mentions of nitro. Lots of things really.
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#20so.... Discord will be a hellscape in 3-5 years as its inevitably destroyed by corporate greed?
Aye, nothing like investor pressure and quarterly growth targets to kill an otherwise good company/product.