Am I the only one who finds Discord iOS unusable due to the small font which is not changeable? Also the font color is of low contrast whether you in its light or dark theme.
As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
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Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#102> "It's time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak" Why is this still not a solved problem ? Why is there no free open source Skype alternatives !?
> Why is this still not a solved problem ? Why is there no free open source Skype alternatives !?
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Today the teacher kicked my kid out of class for being loud and obnoxious, tomorrow they'll be kicking your kid out of the class too." Please do us all a favor and look into what a slippery slope is.
truly there is no historical precedent for the abuse of power along ideological lines
Truly, modeling everything in life as montonically increasing functions because of exceptional historic precedences is a smart thing to do.
"There's a historical precedence for people drinking water and dying because of it, so I'm not going to drink water anymore."
The reasons you here about them is because they are so exceptional. People got banned from forums for being irreverent dicks before and no one batted an eye. Now because they got legitimized by gullible people, everyone screams about their lack of freedom on private platforms.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#104IMO its origins in the gaming community, and all the moderation features that grew out of it, make Discord a much better fit for open source communities than Slack. For example: - Individuals can block and report other users - There are tiered mod levels - Per-community pseudonyms, but a single account makes it easier to track bad actors Markdown support, including syntax highlighting, is actually better in Discord t…
>- Individuals can block and report other users
As far as I know, Slack won’t implement that because it’s a team chat app and if team members need to block people, there’s larger problems: https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/624239660529684481
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#105Discord Bot/Webhook API is really great[1].
You can use it to push alerts and charts from monitoring[2]. It's straightforward.
In Slack, a comparable integration requires a bit more footwork with file uploads being a separate part of the API.
[1]: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook
[2]: https://github.com/axibase/atsd/blob/master/rule-engine/noti...
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#106It appears by "safety concerns" the author means "right wingers might be able to chat on the platform". I'm not sure Discord wants to put themselves in the position of weaponizing their platform to suppress particular kinds of private political speech.
Where are you getting "right wing" from? I saw this: > “Raiding and spamming is explicitly against our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines,”
They aren't really being honest about it. Try using a disposable email service or one with basically no verification demands to register.
Even privacy oriented people just can't use Discord because it used to ban registrations. It just blocks registration now apparently.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
More or less, yes. Fringe political views will get you permanently blocked by Discord and/or Twitter. I'm not a right-leaning person but even the concept speech should be free and uncensored if you aren't enabling a crime is an issue.
That's the problem with centralization, walled gardens, and proprietary protocols. You won't ever have a problem if you just don't go into the gardens. Self-host with mumble, teamspeak, matrix, or something. They all use the same Opus voice codec so it's not a quality issue.
Yeah, I use Riot/Matrix now and I can self-host it if I get disabled...but they don't mind if you don't give them a #/email so its really less of an issue there.
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#108Discord 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…
> Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little.
>... business setting ...
These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?
Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#109IMO its origins in the gaming community, and all the moderation features that grew out of it, make Discord a much better fit for open source communities than Slack. For example: - Individuals can block and report other users - There are tiered mod levels - Per-community pseudonyms, but a single account makes it easier to track bad actors Markdown support, including syntax highlighting, is actually better in Discord t…
>- Individuals can block and report other users As far as I know, Slack won’t implement that because it’s a team chat app and if team members need to block people, there’s larger problems: https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/624239660529684481
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Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard
#110One thing discord fails at accomplishing is voice activation in their web browser client. If anyone from the company is reading I will gladly write you a python/scipy program that will do the correct real-time DSP for voice activation if you implement it into your platform. It's a window, an fft, a filter around a primary frequency range, an integration, and an N second timer since the last time the audio crosses the…
Is this only in our web client or also in our desktop client?
I frequently experience this in the web client. Sometimes we have to switch to Skype because it does a better job of mic activation.
Edit: I've adjusted the thresholds to try and tune it, but it's been very hit or miss.