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I think Discord is slowing eating away all other form of online communication as it can be used for such a variety of situations and their API makes it very cus

I think Discord is slowing eating away all other form of online communication as it can be used for such a variety of situations and their API makes it very customizable. The main issue I see is the culture. Discord's community has quite an opposite culture as Slack (free time vs work time) for instance. Being able to have multiple Discord handles could solve that.

scrollaway 8y ago
Even though I use it a lot for 1 on 1 convos it's definitely not eating that lunch (yet). And imo it won't as long as it remains less reliable for notifications and doesn't have things like last-online, quote replies and read receipts like messenger and WhatsApp.
- h1d 8y ago
  I don't understand why read reciepts are important. People will respond when they feel like whether it says read or not. Just makes it more cumbersome to get around it when you're too busy to respond.
  - scrollaway 8y ago
    Read receipts being there simplify 1-on-1 conversations a lot. Nobody wants to admit it because they don't want to "sound creepy", but most people do use them to know whether or not the other party has read/received the message. It avoids the whole "hey, did you get my text" thing and there's several social situations where knowing whether the other person has read your message (regardless of reply) is useful, so you don't end up calling them to do exactly that. It's like quote replies, emoji, etc… none of these things are essential to 1-on-1 comm, but if there's a platform that has these features, it'll most likely win out over others.
    - h1d 8y ago
      Problem is, it's not reliable. I might accidentally tap on notification and make it read when I'm eating but don't actually want to read it then or if the sender keeps bugging to read it when I know the message had arrived but want to read it later instead, it's not helping the conversation.
izzydata 8y ago
There is a feature suggestion I've been following and crossing my fingers to get implemented for having a different profile picture per server. You can already have a generic username and then nicknames per server so it would be nice to further separate your online presence.

scrollaway 8y ago

Even though I use it a lot for 1 on 1 convos it's definitely not eating that lunch (yet). And imo it won't as long as it remains less reliable for notifications and doesn't have things like last-online, quote replies and read receipts like messenger and WhatsApp.

h1d 8y ago
I don't understand why read reciepts are important. People will respond when they feel like whether it says read or not. Just makes it more cumbersome to get around it when you're too busy to respond.
- scrollaway 8y ago
  Read receipts being there simplify 1-on-1 conversations a lot. Nobody wants to admit it because they don't want to "sound creepy", but most people do use them to know whether or not the other party has read/received the message. It avoids the whole "hey, did you get my text" thing and there's several social situations where knowing whether the other person has read your message (regardless of reply) is useful, so you don't end up calling them to do exactly that. It's like quote replies, emoji, etc… none of these things are essential to 1-on-1 comm, but if there's a platform that has these features, it'll most likely win out over others.
  - h1d 8y ago
    Problem is, it's not reliable. I might accidentally tap on notification and make it read when I'm eating but don't actually want to read it then or if the sender keeps bugging to read it when I know the message had arrived but want to read it later instead, it's not helping the conversation.

izzydata 8y ago

There is a feature suggestion I've been following and crossing my fingers to get implemented for having a different profile picture per server. You can already have a generic username and then nicknames per server so it would be nice to further separate your online presence.