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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 chongli »

astrodust wrote: post #46
hellbanner wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's every communication service's responsibility to keep only the people they like using their service?

There's a difference between "communication service", as in "carrier", and "social platform" as in "community". When you run a carrier you're expected to be neutral. What people do with your service is not your responsibility. If the service is being used illegally then law enforcement can intervene. When you run a community you have an obligation to pick and choose who participates. You can strive to be inclusive, b…

Discord is a carrier, not a social platform. Its communities are isolated bubbles. To join them you need an invitation. This is completely different from something like Facebook or Twitter where anybody can join and immediately begin harassing existing users. If you invite somebody to your Discord channel and they start harassing you then you can simply ban them. There is no need for Discord staff to get involved.

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

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Post by gravypod »

dwrtz wrote: post #60
gravypod wrote: post #58

One 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…

What's wrong with push-to-talk?

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.

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

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Post by Tobba_ »

dwrtz wrote: post #60
gravypod wrote: post #58

One 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…

What's wrong with push-to-talk?

It tends to fail to register the key being released for one, even occasionally on the desktop client.

Last time I tried it the browser app was especially prone to this, to the point of rendering push-to-talk completely unusable.

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

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Post by Vishnevskiy »

gravypod wrote: post #58

One 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?

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

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Post by chriskanan »

Vishnevskiy wrote: post #64
gravypod wrote: post #58

One 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?

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

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

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Post by meowface »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #18
casione wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

American Nazis were using it to organize the Charlottesville demonstration. That's not a form of legal liability nor brand identification you want. https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/26/discord-chats-may-help-c... Also the bad people never stay confined to their private hate club. See the linked article here about "raids" on other channels or literally the entire history of Internet social media.

Discord was right to ban them once they became aware of them, but it's very easy to create a private Discord server to do bad things just as it's very easy to create an AIM/MSN/Skype group chat to do bad things. The portrayal of Discord as somehow naturally encouraging or inducing neo-Nazis to use their platform is silly. Once a communication system (telephone, email, IM) becomes popular enough, bad people are inevitably going to use it as well.

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

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Post by meowface »

astrodust wrote: post #46
hellbanner wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's every communication service's responsibility to keep only the people they like using their service?

There's a difference between "communication service", as in "carrier", and "social platform" as in "community". When you run a carrier you're expected to be neutral. What people do with your service is not your responsibility. If the service is being used illegally then law enforcement can intervene. When you run a community you have an obligation to pick and choose who participates. You can strive to be inclusive, b…

You're exactly right, but Discord is a carrier and not a social platform or community.

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

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Post by dbg31415 »

I started using Discord to game. Then pushed it out to some of my clients. It's great. Webhooks make it so I can replace Slack. Voice chat makes it so I can replace Slack / Skype. The ease of use, the voice channels... it's all so simple. Push to talk, who doesn't love that? Discord has been strong out the gate, much faster at getting features polished than any competitor I've seen.

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

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Post by Vishnevskiy »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Android, iOS? Do they use automatic detection or did they adjust the thresholds.

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

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Post by Cyph0n »

mikkelam wrote: post #25

I my startup company our dev team is pread across paris, copenhagen, dubai and beirut. We with struggled using slack and skype for communication but have recently went for discord, it really boosts the morale and connects the offices in such a cool way. Always being able to talk in a voice channel is just amazing, and everything works incredibly smooth. You can even video chat if you make a group call outside of your…

Discord is blocked in the UAE as far as I know...
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