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Discord is the better app at this point. Even for business use. But Slack from an acquisition POV must be different. They have revenue, traction, and that all i

by unabst 9y ago

Discord is the better app at this point. Even for business use. But Slack from an acquisition POV must be different. They have revenue, traction, and that all important paying subscriber base. It's like everyone has always said. Slack is just a chat app. It's not about the app, but rather, what they achieved with it. I love discord so much part of me wants Amazon to buy Slack just so it would kill it (or MS or Verizon or anyone who tends to not know what to do with things).

iand675 9y ago
Having not really used Discord, what about it is better to you?
- Eridrus 9y ago
  Memory usage is far superior, product is more responsive as a chat system.
- dexterdog 9y ago
  It's very similar, but you get most of the paid options from slack for free and the apps seem to be more reliable in my experience. My biggest problem is getting groups to move from slack to discord. People just use what they're used to and if their company already pays for one of the connections then they are going to be running it all of the time anyway.
- unabst 9y ago
  Faster. Discord is lighter and faster. Simpler. I don't need comments and threads and snippets and posts at the expense of simple communications. These features are also inconsistent and incompatible across devices. Search/Cost. Search doesn't search contents of snippets which was a gotcha. And with a 10000 message limit, anyone using it for free reaches a point where search breaks. I was deleting messages for a while because at the end of the day all the 50/mo would have gotten us is unbroken search. It's like 99% of the product is free and they ask to pay 50/mo for the last 1%. Web Hooks. Integrating anything is as simple as a single line cUrl command. So for business use, if you already have a server doing a bunch of stuff with various APIs, adding notifications to discord is a one liner. Also Discord has a more intuitive server list on the side bar. With slack you have to register with every team and "switch". In Discord it's just another tab. A business on Slack is one that 1) can't see a superior chat program when they see one, 2) are willing to pay for an inferior product, and 3) can't look past the "gamer" origins of a platform. But to Slack's credit, they built a business out of just chat, which is miraculous. And though I've arrived at Discord, they deserve all the credit and respect in the world for achieving what they have achieved through a mere chat subscription service. And I'm sure their philosophy and business direction is what got them to where they are, so standing up and challenging exactly that would admittedly be naive on my part. However I still do not believe any of the points that I have made are incorrect either, which just tells you more about this industry (chat industry?). They just need a "Discord for Business". They would kill.
coldcode 9y ago
Business would not go into something that headlines itself as "Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers"
stock_toaster 9y ago
> Discord is the better app at this point. Even for business use. Doesn't slack still win in external 3rd party (eg. integrations) support? That, and the gaming specific branding, are the only reasons I can think of why businesses might not even consider Discord.
- unabst 9y ago
  Actually yes and no. Discord has Webhooks (which is all I need). Slack requires a bunch of admin hoops and adoption by 3rd parties. With webhooks, as long as a service has an API, people like me can plug them right in.

by unabst 9y ago

iand675 9y ago

Having not really used Discord, what about it is better to you?

Eridrus 9y ago
Memory usage is far superior, product is more responsive as a chat system.
dexterdog 9y ago
It's very similar, but you get most of the paid options from slack for free and the apps seem to be more reliable in my experience. My biggest problem is getting groups to move from slack to discord. People just use what they're used to and if their company already pays for one of the connections then they are going to be running it all of the time anyway.
unabst 9y ago
Faster. Discord is lighter and faster. Simpler. I don't need comments and threads and snippets and posts at the expense of simple communications. These features are also inconsistent and incompatible across devices. Search/Cost. Search doesn't search contents of snippets which was a gotcha. And with a 10000 message limit, anyone using it for free reaches a point where search breaks. I was deleting messages for a while because at the end of the day all the 50/mo would have gotten us is unbroken search. It's like 99% of the product is free and they ask to pay 50/mo for the last 1%. Web Hooks. Integrating anything is as simple as a single line cUrl command. So for business use, if you already have a server doing a bunch of stuff with various APIs, adding notifications to discord is a one liner. Also Discord has a more intuitive server list on the side bar. With slack you have to register with every team and "switch". In Discord it's just another tab. A business on Slack is one that 1) can't see a superior chat program when they see one, 2) are willing to pay for an inferior product, and 3) can't look past the "gamer" origins of a platform. But to Slack's credit, they built a business out of just chat, which is miraculous. And though I've arrived at Discord, they deserve all the credit and respect in the world for achieving what they have achieved through a mere chat subscription service. And I'm sure their philosophy and business direction is what got them to where they are, so standing up and challenging exactly that would admittedly be naive on my part. However I still do not believe any of the points that I have made are incorrect either, which just tells you more about this industry (chat industry?). They just need a "Discord for Business". They would kill.

coldcode 9y ago

Business would not go into something that headlines itself as "Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers"

stock_toaster 9y ago

> Discord is the better app at this point. Even for business use. Doesn't slack still win in external 3rd party (eg. integrations) support? That, and the gaming specific branding, are the only reasons I can think of why businesses might not even consider Discord.

unabst 9y ago
Actually yes and no. Discord has Webhooks (which is all I need). Slack requires a bunch of admin hoops and adoption by 3rd parties. With webhooks, as long as a service has an API, people like me can plug them right in.