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As someone who uses Discord, I can tell you it goes down too. My favorite part is looking at their status page, seeing that API response time is exceedingly hi

As someone who uses Discord, I can tell you it goes down too. My favorite part is looking at their status page, seeing that API response time is exceedingly high, and getting no updates from the team about whether or not they're fixing it.

k__ 6y ago
I'm not saying Discord is perfect or "always up", it's just that their client UI is better structured and more responsive in most cases. I am on multiple OSS Discord servers with thousands of users, and it works just fine most of the time. I am on multiple Slack servers with just 10-20 users and it is unbearably slow.
- rpdillon 6y ago
  I admined a multi-hundred user Slack org and now am part of a multi-thousand user slack org and I've never experienced (or heard about) the slowness that you're describing. Do you have a feel for whether it was client-side or server-side?
  - k__ 6y ago
    More client-side. Server-side scaling was only an issue with OSS communities and for hackathons, where >50k people were online.
- pier25 6y ago
  Yeah the performance of Discord is much better but it looks and feels like a product for gamers. Slack has a more mainstream look and feel which is probably one of the reasons it's preferred by companies.
- bobobob420 6y ago
  What are some open source discord servers you are a part of? I would like to know about some open source communities if you do not mind.
  - k__ 6y ago
    I'm on the React and Rust servers.
- carterklein13 6y ago
  I think Discord's Achilles' heel for enterprise is its UI unfortunately. There's no way that my company would adopt a platform so "fun" in the way Discord tries to be. Animated characters, a logo which looks like a gamepad, etc... It sucks, because I use Slack for work and mostly Discord for personal use (mostly dev communities for different companies), and Discord is far and away a better experience. If Discord provided a "cleaned-up" offering for orgs like mine (finance), I think it would be an instant hit.
  - buzzert 6y ago
    I log on to Slack at work and see pages of emoji, animated gifs, and animated reactions. What’s the difference?
  - bhahn 6y ago
    Discord is actually actively trying to become less gamer-focused, but it's unclear if this will make them as enterprise as Slack or Teams is. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-valuation-and-100m-for-a-sales-pitch-lighter-on-the-gaming/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...

k__ 6y ago

I'm not saying Discord is perfect or "always up", it's just that their client UI is better structured and more responsive in most cases. I am on multiple OSS Discord servers with thousands of users, and it works just fine most of the time. I am on multiple Slack servers with just 10-20 users and it is unbearably slow.

rpdillon 6y ago
I admined a multi-hundred user Slack org and now am part of a multi-thousand user slack org and I've never experienced (or heard about) the slowness that you're describing. Do you have a feel for whether it was client-side or server-side?
- k__ 6y ago
  More client-side. Server-side scaling was only an issue with OSS communities and for hackathons, where >50k people were online.
pier25 6y ago
Yeah the performance of Discord is much better but it looks and feels like a product for gamers. Slack has a more mainstream look and feel which is probably one of the reasons it's preferred by companies.
bobobob420 6y ago
What are some open source discord servers you are a part of? I would like to know about some open source communities if you do not mind.
- k__ 6y ago
  I'm on the React and Rust servers.
carterklein13 6y ago
I think Discord's Achilles' heel for enterprise is its UI unfortunately. There's no way that my company would adopt a platform so "fun" in the way Discord tries to be. Animated characters, a logo which looks like a gamepad, etc... It sucks, because I use Slack for work and mostly Discord for personal use (mostly dev communities for different companies), and Discord is far and away a better experience. If Discord provided a "cleaned-up" offering for orgs like mine (finance), I think it would be an instant hit.
- buzzert 6y ago
  I log on to Slack at work and see pages of emoji, animated gifs, and animated reactions. What’s the difference?
- bhahn 6y ago
  Discord is actually actively trying to become less gamer-focused, but it's unclear if this will make them as enterprise as Slack or Teams is. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-valuation-and-100m-for-a-sales-pitch-lighter-on-the-gaming/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...