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It's an interesting choice, and while I saw it coming after they added a page to view your friends' gaming habits, it's not the long-term move I thought they wo
by aquova 8y ago
It's an interesting choice, and while I saw it coming after they added a page to view your friends' gaming habits, it's not the long-term move I thought they would take.
Discord basically started out as "Slack for gamers", and very quickly (IMO) surpassed both Slack and Skype in terms of functionality. I don't have to have a different account for every server I'm in unlike Slack, and their video and audio calling has always been much more stable than anything I've gotten on Skype.
With that in mind, I would've thought that their next plan would be to improve on what they do best, and try to market to the professional markets and take Skype and Slack head on. Instead they seem to be veering off and doubling down on the gamers. Judging by the number of people I see who have it, I imagine the profit from Nitro may be enough to keep the company going, and the Slack crowd won't be as lucrative as the opportunities from taking some of Steam's marketshare.
- lostmsu 8y agoHm, I tried Discord in January, and it was a long way in echo cancellation to where Skype is now.
- shiburizu 8y agoAnything marketed to corporate inevitably gets bogged down with nonsense. With their current approach they can keep working on what the absolute end-user cares about, and this is how they avoid repeating Skype's mistakes. I think it's interesting how many ways they are planning to mimic Steam's features with moves like these, I still wonder how much traction it can actually gain. But everyone I ask seems positive about it.