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Discord Incident – Resolved

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Re: Discord Incident – Resolved

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Thanks for checking it out and taking the time to give feedback. You made some good points. After staring at the site for so long, you go blind to these types of things, so you're helping a lot here. >no video chat, no screen sharing Screen sharing and video chat were added just a few days ago, and I wanted to get that tested more before mentioning it so prominently. >No downloadable version isn't a feature. What's a…

Glad you're taking it in-stride, I was worried I was a little too direct. Everyone and their mom is making a Discord competitor these days but being Not-Discord isn't enough to stand out. > I see what you mean, if you had a magic wand, what would you call it? Naming things is, of course, the hardest part of programming so somewhat hypocritically I can't say I have an answer :) . It probably depends more on what you v…

>Glad you're taking it in-stride, I was worried I was a little too direct.

Quite the contrary, this is the advice we needed.

>Everyone and their mom is making a Discord competitor these days

We did a significant amount of research into this and didn't find any contenders. Which services do you see that are competitors in the same space?

Re: Discord Incident – Resolved

#62

Times like this make me miss the IRC days, I was just able to reproduce a bug in an semi-open-source project, and Discord went down right in the middle of me sending my findings. Now there's nothing I can do about it. I can only wait.

How would that have been different in the IRC days?

The IRC servers I idled in simply never went down. Sounds impossible, I know. You can choose to believe me or not.

Re: Discord Incident – Resolved

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Times like this make me miss the IRC days, I was just able to reproduce a bug in an semi-open-source project, and Discord went down right in the middle of me sending my findings. Now there's nothing I can do about it. I can only wait.

I mean, when freenode would go down it was more or less the same thing, no?

freenode was run by imbeciles

Re: Discord Incident – Resolved

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> Uproar isn't available in your area yet > We're rolling out to new regions over time to make sure we get things right. > Stay tuned. Dead before born.

If you don't mind me asking, what country are you coming from?

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