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Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by Aerroon »

tester34 wrote: post #307
Aerroon wrote: post #205

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Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well. The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.

I think if you'd want to use other button than caps, then sometimes you may be not sure whether you're on or off Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps

It actually overrides caps lock behavior so there's no light. It does mean that sometimes I don't know what state it is in. That's why a 2nd keybind to set it to only mute is helpful because it'll reset the state.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by Aerroon »

professorsnep wrote: post #432
Aerroon wrote: post #205

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Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well. The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.

I use toggle mute a lot in Discord, especially on devices where I don't use a mic with a hardware mute, but Teams does not, as far as I have checked, have a customizable keybind for toggle mute that doesn't require you to have the application focused. Which is really annoying, especially when in a meeting and getting asked a question while in another window.

Ideally, Windows would give us a customizable keybind to mute your microphone globally. Sadly, that's not the case so you have to get a script to do it.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by nkrisc »

mb321 wrote: post #347
nkrisc wrote: post #278

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Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

Humour is subjective, and whether you found them funny or not didn't really matter. They were just stupid little jokes for you to read while Discord is doing something. Perfectly harmless, and adds a bit of charm to the app.

Harmless, sure. Charming? I don’t think so, but that’s just me.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by gchamonlive »

anthony_r wrote: post #388
gchamonlive wrote: post #310

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They should just have a separate platform mode. Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.

Discord B8s = Discord Baits? You're trying to pull a YouTube Red here?

Exactly :D

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by lugged »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #256
lugged wrote: post #201

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Because its free. Slack is not.

Slack is free as well. Or at least, like discord, it has a freemium layer. We use both and we pay for neither.

Have you ever set up a free slack community?

Because I haven't. It's a nightmare, you need custom software to even invite people.

Besides that, its severely limited. Discord has a real free model, slack does not.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by dcow »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #438
dcow wrote: post #436

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Nothing, it’s just somewhat roundabout and not really tailored for that scenario. For 1) the pricing model for that doesn't make sense for small teams (which IMO are most likely to adopt, for big teams it’s a deal). You need 30 server boosts to get 100mb upload limit which is $150/mo. And them that doesnt apply to DMs. And 2) the logistics don’t really work out. You need separate accounts to buy the boost. If you buy…

> Would just be nice to allow some org to have an account and to gift boosts to users or something to bridge the gap for small teams. You can do that. https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020877112-N...

I wish that worked for the higher tier. That’s only 50mb upload and 720 video. I’d say most professionals need the higher tier.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by rcxdude »

codingdave wrote: post #188
tester34 wrote: post #111

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Could you name at least two other platforms that offer at least Decent chat (file sharing, emojis, support for code snippets), decent voice chat, decent streaming and supports PUSH2TALK button? and I personally prefer when it is not self-hosted due to DDoS risk, but it's not must have. and is e.g F/OSS? Because I'm unable to name and that's why I started using Discord

When you pile together half a dozen different requirements, of course the number of products in the middle of your resulting Venn diagram is going to be narrowed down to one. Especially if you already had that answer in mind when you laid out your requirements list. The question that needs asked is not, "What is the one product that exactly fits my personal needs?", but "What feature set of a communication platform m…

Discord is a very good answer to that question for gaming communities: its features almost perfectly overlap with the set of different apps each gaming community would inevitably set up. It just so happens this set is also a good match (or a superset of) the features many other communities want as well, and where it isn't, it complements other platforms nicely.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by oriki »

NoSorryCannot wrote: post #415
sadness3 wrote: post #93

I have a bad feeling about this. Discord essentially does one thing really well. I don't want to see it go down the way of so many chat platforms trying to be everything and becoming a bloated mess. Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt. It makes me despair of business models which re…

Discord doesn't even do its one thing all that well. The client is buggy and slow. It makes the terrible, lazy choice of blanking the window when it has a connectivity problem. Non-standard for-pay emojis are a terrible idea. Text should be copyable, by everyone, exactly as it is. It's not the worst among the current stable of chat solutions. I would give that award to Teams, because wow, Teams fails in just about ev…

> Non-standard for-pay emojis are a terrible idea. Text should be copyable, by everyone, exactly as it is.

I agree from a moral standpoint but because of the general use of emoji in servers, it really doesn't prove to be that much of an issue. People also enjoy using their own emoji, which is generally good for communities.

I think you'll find that as users find platforms to coalesce and try and build communities on, they'll want those customizations. Being able to use them anywhere on the platform is just a bonus - unpaid users can still use those emoji within the servers they come from.

Re: Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else

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Post by [deleted] »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #299
nkrisc wrote: post #278

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Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana! I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

On my open source project ( https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash ), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/

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