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I feel like “chat apps” have reached peak innovation. It can’t get any better than discord/slack/mattermost. Braid looks like it’s trying to solve a problem th

by xyst 7y ago

I feel like “chat apps” have reached peak innovation. It can’t get any better than discord/slack/mattermost. Braid looks like it’s trying to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist. If anything it adds more problems than it solves. Instead of navigating to a general channel for “marketing”, now I have to remember some hashtag that an intern created to recall that exact conversation. This is no different than message threads within a channel and just searching by keywords.

na85 7y ago
I haven't used mattermost, but discord at least is awful. It's a battery hog, the VoIP usually doesn't work, and I don't think the actual chatting experience is significantly better than IRC except for inline images which is, I'll admit, a nice feature. Otherwise the only thing discord has going for it is the network effect. If image support and emoji are considered "peak innovation" then MSN Messenger beat them to it a decade ago.
- pathartl 7y ago
  > the VoIP usually doesn't work I don't understand this, Discord is one of the most reliable voice chatting applications I've used. Honestly I wish MS Teams would implement voice channels similar to Discord. It would be so much nicer to just drop into a voice channel instead of sending out invites for a meeting.
  - na85 7y ago
    Are we using the same application? I've literally never, not a single time, tried to use Discord's VOIP without either me or someone in the channel being unable to broadcast/hear the others. We're all running bog-standard Windows 10 machines with USB peripherals.
    - pathartl 7y ago
      Apparently we must not be. I have an Arctis 7 headset and I can take the transceiver and move it from my main rig to my work machine and even my phone... it works straight away and I don't need to configure anything. Not that I've needed to do it, but have you tried disabling all of your unused audio input/output devices on your computer? If you don't use things like line or mic in on your motherboard, disable them. It gives Discord less things to try to bind to.
      - na85 7y ago
        Does it seem like "peak innovation" has been reached if I have to disable audio devices on my motherboard the way I haven't had to since using the original Teamspeak back in the early aughts? It's not just me, either.

by xyst 7y ago

na85 7y ago

I haven't used mattermost, but discord at least is awful. It's a battery hog, the VoIP usually doesn't work, and I don't think the actual chatting experience is significantly better than IRC except for inline images which is, I'll admit, a nice feature. Otherwise the only thing discord has going for it is the network effect. If image support and emoji are considered "peak innovation" then MSN Messenger beat them to it a decade ago.

pathartl 7y ago
> the VoIP usually doesn't work I don't understand this, Discord is one of the most reliable voice chatting applications I've used. Honestly I wish MS Teams would implement voice channels similar to Discord. It would be so much nicer to just drop into a voice channel instead of sending out invites for a meeting.
- na85 7y ago
  Are we using the same application? I've literally never, not a single time, tried to use Discord's VOIP without either me or someone in the channel being unable to broadcast/hear the others. We're all running bog-standard Windows 10 machines with USB peripherals.
  - pathartl 7y ago
    Apparently we must not be. I have an Arctis 7 headset and I can take the transceiver and move it from my main rig to my work machine and even my phone... it works straight away and I don't need to configure anything. Not that I've needed to do it, but have you tried disabling all of your unused audio input/output devices on your computer? If you don't use things like line or mic in on your motherboard, disable them. It gives Discord less things to try to bind to.
    - na85 7y ago
      Does it seem like "peak innovation" has been reached if I have to disable audio devices on my motherboard the way I haven't had to since using the original Teamspeak back in the early aughts? It's not just me, either.