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As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by rhcom2 »

pmarreck wrote: post #81
gravypod wrote: post #62

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It's obsolete and only needed because their software is broken. Skype, Google Hangouts, teamspeak, ventrillo, mumble, and tox all support my microphone and voice activation correctly.

PTT is useful when you don’t want everyone else on your channel to hear your breathing, coughing and keyboard-clacking (can you tell I’ve played Overwatch?)

> keyboard-clacking

The rise of mechanical keyboards has made PTT practically the only option. Otherwise you just hear little clicking all the time.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by taion »

pluma wrote: post #123
ancarda wrote: post #104

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>- 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

In other words, Slack merely tolerates public Slack chats, it doesn't want to encourage them. As we speak, I have five slack communities open in my messenger. All but one of them are open to the public. I'd wager there are more public Slack communities than there are private (i.e. "team chat") ones. But much like Twitter, Slack has a fundamentally different vision for their platform than their users apparently have.…

We didn’t hit a hard limit. Slack explicitly disabled new user signups for us because they thought we were getting too big.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by sergiotapia »

j_s wrote: post #17
sergiotapia wrote: post #13

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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.

Absolutely! For example: https://github.com/discordapp/fastglobal

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by NelsonMinar »

geofft wrote: post #55
casione wrote: post #16

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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)

> (My account was just banned by sctb for this ;P) Hm, I looked at your account and you posted another comment which looks for all the world like an attempt to imply by dogwhistle that the Jews are planning on replacing you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870471 Are you sure you were not banned for being a Nazi, hiding behind the label "alt-right"? People dissatisfied with mainstream right-wing politics are o…

Nazis gonna Naz. Even here on Hacker News. Clothed in polite slipperly slope fallacies and hiding behind odious pseudonyms.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by scruple »

maaark wrote: post #128
ploggingdev wrote: post #127

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> its origins in the gaming community Anyone know how they gained traction in the gaming community? Their wikipedia entry [0] says they had a game development studio which developed games that were not successful, then they start developing Discord and successfully launch on reddit. How did they promote on reddit given reddit's aversion to self promotion? Maybe ads? Would love to learn more about their early days. [0…

I think mainly by offering for free a better/easier voice calling system than Skype/Ventrillo/Teamspeak.

And also the centralization + how easy it is to join a new Discord channel. It used to be very annoying to have to run vent/mumble and skype while playing a single game because of different groups/teams preferences. Not to mention, people had problems configuring vent/mumble all of the time. I've had times where my own configuration would randomly stop working. In, I guess about 2 years of using it, I've never had an issue with Discords voice.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by merb »

atc wrote: post #115
brendyn wrote: post #114

It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord is proprietary software, meaning users have no practical capability, or legal right, to study, modify, or share the code, and it is a centralized service. Thus Discord can be used for…

Discord won many people over simply because it was such well written software, and that continues today. Its proprietary nature has always concerned me too, as well as what they're doing with the data (i.e. assume they're reading & listening to everything). What they mustn't do is forget how quickly they grew and the underlying concept that enabled it: people will flock to different messaging platforms quite easily (…

I think the biggest reason is/was because it is free (Costs no Money). Not because it is/was well written. Nobody cares if it is well written... (at least outside the hn spectrum)

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by AFNobody »

scrollaway wrote: post #122
AFNobody wrote: post #121

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> It's a bit like being concerned about gmail requiring your real name to sign up. I mean, yeah, but, what? Lol. :) A) Its the principle of the thing. B) I can get around the disposable email block with a disposable email quite easily. Its more the fact they got rid of the original account that pissed me off. C) I change online screen names somewhat frequently to cut off the occasional mentally unstable person who tr…

It's easy to confuse blocking anonymity with blocking spam, given that spammers want anonymity (and are a far larger group than privacy-minded folk, given that one single spammer can lead to thousands of "identities"). But Discord isn't blocking "anonymity", they're blocking disposable email addresses (low-hanging fruit spam). They don't ask for your name and, whatever email you give it, doesn't have to be tied to yo…

> It's easy to confuse blocking anonymity with blocking spam

> It's a bit like blocking Tor. Websites don't block Tor because they hate privacy, they block Tor because it's a spammer's tool of choice.

And yet, I somehow can do it without either of these measures. So can Reddit and Matrix and a bunch of other services.

We must some sort of amazing super genius. /s

This falls under "beliefs you have", not facts.

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Post by sebleon »

chriskanan wrote: post #65
Vishnevskiy wrote: post #64

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Is this only in our web client or also in our desktop client?

It definitely drops the last word for the cell phone app. I often talk using the desktop client to someone using the cell phone app, and every last word of a sentence she says seems dropped

Finish every sentence by saying “over” ;)

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Post by nyolfen »

rxhernandez wrote: post #103
nyolfen wrote: post #82

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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 e…

>People got banned from forums for being irreverent dicks before and no one batted an eye.

you're poorly versed in internet culture and history. many internet subcultures have axiomatically rejected moderation because, surprise, giving power to anonymous and unaccountable peers frequently results in abuses. you're confusing your own lack of concern and love of arbitrary authority with the opinions of others.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by viridian »

ryanlol wrote: post #111
xupybd wrote: post #57

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The problem with the Alt-right on the internet is that they often are just trolls trying to be as offensive as possible. The actual alt-right political movement is just a very small group. I don't think many outside of that small group actually hold the racist and misogynistic views that are expressed on these forums. It's often just backlash at the rapid change in culture. People want to break the new rules of disco…

>The problem with the Alt-right on the internet is that they often are just trolls trying to be as offensive as possible. After watching and participating in this for years, I don't think this is true anymore. The people who found it funny to piss off people by pretending to be Nazis ended up attracting actual Nazis and were eventually replaced by them. It's much less funny to pretend to be a white supremacist when y…

>It's much less funny to pretend to be a white supremacist when you know half the country actually agrees with you.

Half the country are white supremacists? I think you should walk outside and interact with some actual human beings.

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