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Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and ne

Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little. I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipchat.

eberkund 9y ago
Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.
- forthefuture 9y ago
  Its easier to get businesses to use Discord than to get gamers to use Slack.
  - bpicolo 9y ago
    Turns out 'free' is a good selling point
- pavel_lishin 9y ago
  > Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack I see several reasons. 1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead. 2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.
  - hellbanner 9y ago
    You can hide muted channels.. then you don't see them
    - pavel_lishin 9y ago
      How?
      - vitaflo 9y ago
        Under the options for the server, select "Hide muted channels".
  - sandGorgon 9y ago
    Exactly - the permission structure is the single biggest problem. This will pretty much kill slack if they can build this in.
- j_s 9y ago
  One major roadblock is there is no concept of separate identities managed under one login, or switching accounts easily. I think there is a half-way-there "server nickname" option new this year but it's not quite the same. The primary motivation for most is a clear separation between personal and professional. https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/10492779-support-multiple-accounts https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-... https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-Server-Nicknames https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S... Anecdata: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292 Some people consider this a positive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089417
  - deleted 9y ago
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- robryan 9y ago
  They would have got nowhere just being a slack clone going after the same businesses. In gaming there was a read pain point which they are addressing. Services like Ventrilo, Teamspeak etc required a lot of setup/ self hosting and were only really strong for voice. Skype didn't organise well around how people game. When I come back to WoW a few years ago a lot of people were trying to run groups on Skype which was a horrible experience of adding randoms and joining group calls, in additional to all the other downsides of Skype. Discord is a perfect replacement for that.
wbond 9y ago
The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it has been serving the core group of contributors well.
- AFNobody 9y ago
  > It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym. So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
  - wbond 9y ago
    I was under the impression anyone could join who had the server address?
    - AFNobody 9y ago
      I'm actually blocked for registering/banned during registration. I literally cannot have a Discord account 'cause it'll just get disabled immediately.
      - wbond 9y ago
        Oh, I was referring to gated meaning you can't get in without being invited.
  - distantsounds 9y ago
    your account name is not the same as your display name, which you can customize on a per-server basis. Also, signups are done via email. And your "username" is not unique by design, it gives you a numeric identity alongside it (much like how Blizzard's battle tags work).
SkyMarshal 9y ago
> Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little. >... business setting ... These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?

eberkund 9y ago

Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.

forthefuture 9y ago
Its easier to get businesses to use Discord than to get gamers to use Slack.
- bpicolo 9y ago
  Turns out 'free' is a good selling point
pavel_lishin 9y ago
> Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack I see several reasons. 1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead. 2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.
- hellbanner 9y ago
  You can hide muted channels.. then you don't see them
  - pavel_lishin 9y ago
    How?
    - vitaflo 9y ago
      Under the options for the server, select "Hide muted channels".
- sandGorgon 9y ago
  Exactly - the permission structure is the single biggest problem. This will pretty much kill slack if they can build this in.
j_s 9y ago
One major roadblock is there is no concept of separate identities managed under one login, or switching accounts easily. I think there is a half-way-there "server nickname" option new this year but it's not quite the same. The primary motivation for most is a clear separation between personal and professional. https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/10492779-support-multiple-accounts https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-... https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-Server-Nicknames https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S... Anecdata: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292 Some people consider this a positive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089417
- deleted 9y ago
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robryan 9y ago
They would have got nowhere just being a slack clone going after the same businesses. In gaming there was a read pain point which they are addressing. Services like Ventrilo, Teamspeak etc required a lot of setup/ self hosting and were only really strong for voice. Skype didn't organise well around how people game. When I come back to WoW a few years ago a lot of people were trying to run groups on Skype which was a horrible experience of adding randoms and joining group calls, in additional to all the other downsides of Skype. Discord is a perfect replacement for that.

wbond 9y ago

The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it has been serving the core group of contributors well.

AFNobody 9y ago
> It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does. Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym. So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
- wbond 9y ago
  I was under the impression anyone could join who had the server address?
  - AFNobody 9y ago
    I'm actually blocked for registering/banned during registration. I literally cannot have a Discord account 'cause it'll just get disabled immediately.
    - wbond 9y ago
      Oh, I was referring to gated meaning you can't get in without being invited.
- distantsounds 9y ago
  your account name is not the same as your display name, which you can customize on a per-server basis. Also, signups are done via email. And your "username" is not unique by design, it gives you a numeric identity alongside it (much like how Blizzard's battle tags work).

SkyMarshal 9y ago

> Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little. >... business setting ... These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?