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What's wrong with Discord?
by philliphaydon 7y ago
What's wrong with Discord?
- ddevault 7y agoAll of the same things that are wrong with Slack, discussed in the OP. Don't use nonfree platforms to collaborate on free-as-in-freedom software. They also appropriate "server" terminology to dilute stuff which actually puts the users in control - unlike typical "servers", a Discord server is anything but - they run on Discord infrastructure and the user has little to no influence over their adminsitration.
- armitron 7y agoEverything that's wrong with slack, and more. No IRC gateway. Developers are extremely hostile to 3rd party clients. Centralized control. Ownership of your data.
- rapind 7y agoAlso Tencent is an investor in Discord if that's a concern for people.
- birdyrooster 7y agoWhat do you mean by ownership of your data? 1) They own the storage by which the data resides and can dictate how the data is accessed 2) They own your IP
- gizmo385 7y ago> Developers are extremely hostile to 3rd party clients. Example? As someone who has written a library to facilitate creating 3rd party bots, I've never seen anything to suggest this.
- saagarjha 7y ago3rd party bots≠3rd party clients. Discord very actively goes after the latter and those who use them.
- jamesgeck0 7y agoSlack has no public API for 3rd party clients; it's strictly for bots. The EULA says they can ban you if you use a 3rd party client. The clients I've seen require you to open browser web dev tools in the browser and copy your API key from the browser session. Even browser CSS modifications are apparently frowned upon.
- robjan 7y agoReplace "slack" in that article with "discord"