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I use slack for work and discord for friends. One feels like a labor of love and the other is a chore to use that I'd discard immediately if I could. Becoming
by gdulli 7y ago
I use slack for work and discord for friends. One feels like a labor of love and the other is a chore to use that I'd discard immediately if I could.
Becoming an enterprise product would cause discord to grow its organization a certain way, hire certain kinds of people, cause their product to be built by certain kinds of processes. And the qualities that make me enjoy using it would absolutely go away. It would become Slack. I think it's impossible to firewall the enterprise-ness from the rest of the org/product. When you have a great culture you have to fiercely protect it because it's fragile.
Of course that's my selfish reason for it not to go enterprise. Not a business reason.
- cliftonk 7y agoThey could be dominant for lightly regulated businesses as-is and more so with a good add-on strategy (ie task managers / workflow as the author emphasized). I generally agree going the enterprise route, as it exists today, would be a bad move for the product.