Comment by WhyNotHugo
16 days ago
Discord has been immensely hostile to the public in general since forever, and people love to flock to it and throw money at the company behind it.
I don't expect the masses to change their incomprehensible habits just because of this.
It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms.
Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does.
No, Discord/Slack is a mess. Interesting topics got buried in an IRC-style chat. Threaded BBS are much better for organizing communities, like Discourse. And it is open source, so no vendor lock-in with stupid age verification.
How many of them let me turn up/down or mute individual participants in a group voice call?
> nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does
Apart from the open voice channels, what Discord features is Slack actually lacking? (and huddles can sub-in for voice channels much of the time)
This doesn't feel like a real question... Slack free tier is basically crappy Discord, limited message history, no voice channels, huddles are also behind the paying tiers. It is basically worse on all aspects unless you start paying
Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use.
A nonprofit I help out just moved from Slack to Discord for a very simple reason: Slack pricing was too expensive, and as the amount of people increased, the price continues to climb. Discord is free
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The biggest one for me is that Discord will keep all history for free servers, whereas Slack only gives you access to 3 months iirc (and as of a year or two ago, has started permanently deleting older content).
For large communities, the very granular role-based permission system of Discord can be put to some good use, I don't think Slack has a trivially equivalent feature.
reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.
Dude, Slack deletes everything almost immediately unless you have a paid version which isn't cheap.
"easier" - what really matters is end user freedom, the rest is just decoration
Wrong. What really matters is delivering dopamine reward signals in the user's brain. Everything else is just a mechanism.
Apparently not because they have 200mill users.
I also value end user freedom, but I also accept reality. And I guarantee you you have compromised on your freedom/anonymity for convenience online. We all have. And ultimately discord is so turnkey that most people just don’t care
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Honestly... People deserve this. They deserve the consequences. They were warned. They chose this.
They also don't care. But I do care, chose the opposite, and will still bear the consequences, once a sizable population does certain things.
Ok, do your worst. I got on Discord cause they offered the best free service, I'll just as easily leave if that ever stops being the case. "Teen mode" seems not bad, I need something worse.
You will not leave easily. There's no point to you leaving if all your friends remain. Chances are they could not care less about these issues and would rather leave you instead of mass switching to a less convenient alternative.
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Y’all forgot that the only reason we’re on Discord was because MS actively killed Skype. Skype was much better software circa 2012 before MS let vulnerabilities run rampant, degraded the UI, and moved off the remarkably robust P2P calling system.
I never had a Skype call work properly on the first try, even before Microsoft broke it
I too remember Skype's universal salute: "do you hear me?"
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Discord used to be better, but then they got popular, got incredibly picked up and now are probably being controlled by some very shady people.
If you look up the founder he has a bit of history of shady shiz with his past companies.
It isn't surprising to me they are going scorched earth now bending to the will of the fascist government.