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Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by celim307 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

fish45 wrote: post #77

Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it's super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who's free can join. I really wish there were competition, but there's nothing…

I’m near middle age and discord is how I still talk to my friends from high school, college, and past jobs. My high school friends are pretty close now with my work friends, despite only ever have interacted on discord.

It’s hands down the communication tool i use the most in my personal life

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:15 PM UTC

upofadown wrote: post #118

lrvick wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not matrix?

Wouldn't Mumble be closer to the described use case?

Not really.

Discord has both text and voice (and IIRC video) chat. Mumble is voice only, and the UX is... dated.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by unethical_ban » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:16 PM UTC

RobLach wrote: post #169

etempleton wrote: post #127

I just don’t see what Discord’s path towards profitability is. Are they going to try to start an online store again? Sell enough Nitro subs? I think they are playing hard ball for a better acquisition deal, but they risk being irrelevant before ever getting a better deal.

Note: Discord has 14x more active users than Slack. Discord has a technology and feature superset over Slack. The Discord audience is becoming the professional audience just about right now.

The feature set of Slack and Discord are overlapping, but neither is a superset of the other.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by dijit » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:17 PM UTC

fish45 wrote: post #77

Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it's super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who's free can join. I really wish there were competition, but there's nothing…

I used to use IRC+Mumble for this 13 or so years ago. You _can_ live without proprietary stuff, though I 100% agree it's not as flashy or convenient.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

sbagel wrote: post #228

Discord does not give users a choice to opt-out of their wildly invasive data collection methods including logging executables running on your system while the desktop client is open, not just games. This data alone is very valuable. Comment from a 2019 support thread "I am pretty flabbergasted that people aren't making a bigger deal of this than they are. Discord actively monitors your executables, but the larger co…

Why would you install the desktop app? Isn't it Electron anyways, so aren't you basically running the same thing as you would in the browser, except now you've replaced the exceptionally well sandboxed, trusted browser with an outdated, unsandboxed browser and have given an app that doesn't need this access to your entire system?

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by debaserab2 » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

celim307 wrote: post #271

fish45 wrote: post #77

Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it's super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who's free can join. I really wish there were competition, but there's nothing…

I’m near middle age and discord is how I still talk to my friends from high school, college, and past jobs. My high school friends are pretty close now with my work friends, despite only ever have interacted on discord. It’s hands down the communication tool i use the most in my personal life

Same here. What used to be a private IRC channel evolved into a Skype group chat and finally several years ago evolved into a Discord server. We game together often and even have poker nights through it. It's been a huge boon to my social life during the pandemic.

I'm really glad MS is not buying Discord after seeing what they did to Skype.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:19 PM UTC

xdrosenheim wrote: post #264

2iP1zbR wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Teamspeak, which has other problems like server admins viewing the IP addresses of other users in the server, if that counts

I never understood what was wring people seeing my personal, private IP address... I can call my ISP and get a new one in seconds, or turn my router off for 5 minutes to get a new one.

When you're playing games, it can mean that people can DDOS you, or otherwise just like, send bad stuff your way.

Both of the solutions you have still disrupt the game, even if they do temporarily solve the issue.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:21 PM UTC

Jonovono wrote: post #110

fish45 wrote: post #77

Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it's super chill to just hop in a channel when doing homework or playing a game or whatever else, and anyone else who's free can join. I really wish there were competition, but there's nothing…

What do you feel is missing from Discord?

For me: per server avatars and/or usernames. Or even some sort of straight-up multi-account support. Being able to choose a display name upon joining a server, rather than after, would be a great start.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by datagram » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:22 PM UTC

brundolf wrote: post #179

Jonovono wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you feel is missing from Discord?

The only thing I would change is small and weird: I wish you could make the window smaller on desktop. The min-width is almost half the size of my screen; it shouldn't be hard to gracefully collapse things further as you resize

You can actually override the min width for the window by adding a "MIN_WIDTH" field to Discord's settings.json: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600294...

Can't guarantee it'll be usable without using some custom CSS though.

Re: Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

savanaly wrote: post #254

RobLach wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note: Discord has 14x more active users than Slack. Discord has a technology and feature superset over Slack. The Discord audience is becoming the professional audience just about right now.

When I joined the Elm community I thought it was weird they use a Slack for real time discussion and not a Discord. When I asked why I found out that Discord's features are most certainly not a superset of Slack's. * Slack threads are an amazing feature and frequently used on the Elm slack. One discussion or one person's question can become a thread and then the channel won't be continuously pinged by the ongoing dis…

Funny enough, I hate Slack threads. Discord has added a reply feature already that better captures the IRC feeling, and rumor is real threads are coming, we'll see :)

(If you like threads, be sure to check out Zulip.)