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I really like them. No need to invite people to a meeting; just jump in. E.g. if you have an issue to diagnose as a group you can just stay on the line, and dip in and out where necessary.
In Teams you can just call the first person up and then add more people into the call. "Jane Doe is calling you from a group chat" or whatever it says. I'm surprised this is a new-ish feature in Slack?
probably some bitcoin mining worm?
I really have a love hate relationship with discord and I feel like it is a prime example of an application that should be "simple" but just seems far more complicated than it should be. Currently my biggest annoyance is for some reason every time I start a game, it also tries to access my Camera. Some people online are saying that it is because my webcam has a mic... but why is it trying to access my mic when I laun…
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That's not the TOS. That's a 3 year old tweet with multiple people in the replies asking to cite where in the TOS it says that, and no further reply from the official account.
Keeping it vague means they can simply shrug and refer to being able to ban accounts at their own discretion
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I yarn for the simpler days of IRC, Pidgin and Skype where these apps ran fine on a 1GHz Pentium 3 chip with 256MB of RAM. Now you need a quad core 3GHz chip and 8GB RAM just to run a chat app reliably. Where did we go wrong?
I will never miss skype. that application was a buggy ass POS near the end.
Skype was great at first. Then Microsoft bought Skype and turned it into a shithole. Then Microsoft said that this product is trash and migrated everyone to use MSN. Thanks, Microsoft!
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So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?
I use ripcord for discord and slack bonus it's a native app and uses about 20mb of ram.
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Most of this is false. Ripcord achieves near-feature-parity with the official Discord and Slack apps using cross-platform desktop technologies with a fraction of the resource usage with a single developer . Ripcord's very existence contradicts most of the claims you've made above.
You can also just look at how many developers it took to build similar programs, native and cross-platform, in, say, the 90s and early 00s. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of them had smaller teams for all platforms combined than Discord has for its single desktop client. Yet one would hope we've gotten more efficient at software development since then, and the entire excuse for using things like Electron is suppo…
The workflow that I've seen for frontend coding today is that a designer makes a mockup in something like Figma, and then a frontend programmer has to go remake it from scratch in typescript? It seems crazy that we have not made any progress (or even regressed) here in 15 years, but hopefully I'm just out of the loop on state of the art.
Interesting. I discovered just the other night that merely minimizing Discord nets me about a 20 FPS improvement in Factorio. (Even if Discord is otherwise off-screen, which it normally is, as Factorio is fullscreen, and there's no second monitor for me.)
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>> blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear. I think HN may have solved one of my most annoying technology mysteries... Definitely taking discord out of automatic startup. Moving back to teamspeak or some other system is quickly becoming a thing for me. I used to run a TS3 server for years.
Mumble is a much better experience than Teamspeak, at least in my experience.
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So then I guess the advice is, if you have to use Discord, stick to the web version?
One sticking point for people might be the way push-to-talk works for the in-browser version; the shortcut to trigger it will only work when you have the browser window focused (I think due to limitations in how browsers can capture inputs when not focused, which is a pretty reasonable policy in general). Not only does this mean you'd need to alt-tab over whenever you want to push to talk (which isn't super easy for…