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Has anyone considered using Discord instead of Slack? They seem very similar.

EvilEndures 8y ago
I use Discord in place of Slack for hobby/non-professional projects. The problem with Discord tbh is I've found it to be less reliable than Slack in terms of uptime/push notifications. It also has fewer devop functions prebuilt which means building them out. Not a big deal if you are a hobbyist, is a big deal if you are paying people $100+/hr to do it.
davidwparker 8y ago
We use Discord instead of Slack for work. It works well, most of the time. But it's not a perfect solution, and some bots / things that are just a few clicks away in Slack we've had to build out manually. That said, prefer it to Slack anyway.
fbnlsr 8y ago
Discord is MUCH better than Slack. But since it's primarily aimed at the gaming community it doesn't get the same audience.
- everyone 8y ago
  I used Slack at work about a year and a half ago.. I have recently setup a Discord server for one of my own games. Discord seems to, have more features, work more reliably, and be a lot easier to administrate.. Also its free! Maybe Slack has advanced in the past year and a half tho..
mechazawa 8y ago
Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.
- deadbunny 8y ago
  > Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Because it's aimed at gamers? > Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus. It's a chat and VOIP system, seems to do those both very well. Not exactly complicated.
  - mcintyre1994 8y ago
    It's also been latched onto by a lot of articles about the alt-right/Charlottesville, they were apparently using it for a while before they got banned there - and Discord have been subpoenad and things. Nothing that's Discord's fault (actually I don't think it's even encrypted?) but I can see why it'd get a bad look professionally based on that sort of coverage.
    - deadbunny 8y ago
      That is ridiculous. As you say they got banned. If them being on the platform annoys you that much didn't Discord do exactly what you wanted?
- mynewtb 8y ago
  Cut them some slack.
faitswulff 8y ago
I've recently made this switch. If just for the sheer performance difference (mostly startup time), Discord is worth it. The free search, file uploads, and audio/video chat really makes it, though.
Zealotux 8y ago
I use both and I find Discord to be much better, I don't understand why they don't release a "corporate" paid version that would basically be the current version but with a different skin and without all of the gamer nonsense.
- LinuxBender 8y ago
  A corporate version of Discord, ideally on-prem, would make a lot of sense. Their current data retention policy for the public discord servers would violate many corporate data retention policies.
mcintyre1994 8y ago
Discord feels less polished to me. I find push notifications way less reliable, and often if I do get a notification the app won't refresh for a few minutes to show the message. I think there's no offline handling at all for notifications, so if you're offline when a message it sent you're never notified about it. Search is basically unusable if you want context, they only let you see a few messages after your search term. Also they don't have outgoing webhooks which make bots more awkward. It is nice that it's free and unlimited of course, it's a no brainer compared to free Slack, but for work I'd prefer to use Slack.

I use Discord in place of Slack for hobby/non-professional projects. The problem with Discord tbh is I've found it to be less reliable than Slack in terms of uptime/push notifications. It also has fewer devop functions prebuilt which means building them out. Not a big deal if you are a hobbyist, is a big deal if you are paying people $100+/hr to do it.

davidwparker 8y ago

We use Discord instead of Slack for work. It works well, most of the time. But it's not a perfect solution, and some bots / things that are just a few clicks away in Slack we've had to build out manually. That said, prefer it to Slack anyway.

fbnlsr 8y ago

Discord is MUCH better than Slack. But since it's primarily aimed at the gaming community it doesn't get the same audience.

everyone 8y ago
I used Slack at work about a year and a half ago.. I have recently setup a Discord server for one of my own games. Discord seems to, have more features, work more reliably, and be a lot easier to administrate.. Also its free! Maybe Slack has advanced in the past year and a half tho..

mechazawa 8y ago

Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.

deadbunny 8y ago
> Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Because it's aimed at gamers? > Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus. It's a chat and VOIP system, seems to do those both very well. Not exactly complicated.
- mcintyre1994 8y ago
  It's also been latched onto by a lot of articles about the alt-right/Charlottesville, they were apparently using it for a while before they got banned there - and Discord have been subpoenad and things. Nothing that's Discord's fault (actually I don't think it's even encrypted?) but I can see why it'd get a bad look professionally based on that sort of coverage.
  - deadbunny 8y ago
    That is ridiculous. As you say they got banned. If them being on the platform annoys you that much didn't Discord do exactly what you wanted?
mynewtb 8y ago
Cut them some slack.

faitswulff 8y ago

I've recently made this switch. If just for the sheer performance difference (mostly startup time), Discord is worth it. The free search, file uploads, and audio/video chat really makes it, though.

Zealotux 8y ago

I use both and I find Discord to be much better, I don't understand why they don't release a "corporate" paid version that would basically be the current version but with a different skin and without all of the gamer nonsense.

LinuxBender 8y ago
A corporate version of Discord, ideally on-prem, would make a lot of sense. Their current data retention policy for the public discord servers would violate many corporate data retention policies.

mcintyre1994 8y ago

Discord feels less polished to me. I find push notifications way less reliable, and often if I do get a notification the app won't refresh for a few minutes to show the message. I think there's no offline handling at all for notifications, so if you're offline when a message it sent you're never notified about it. Search is basically unusable if you want context, they only let you see a few messages after your search term. Also they don't have outgoing webhooks which make bots more awkward. It is nice that it's free and unlimited of course, it's a no brainer compared to free Slack, but for work I'd prefer to use Slack.