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I agree, I always found it strange that an app aimed for gaming really has better performance than slack/teams and their massive budgets behind them. But I neve

I agree, I always found it strange that an app aimed for gaming really has better performance than slack/teams and their massive budgets behind them. But I never saw a company that uses discord for communication.

masklinn 6y ago
> I always found it strange that an app aimed for gaming really has better performance than slack/teams Makes sense to me, its users would be running games alongside the software, and would be quite cross with the software shitting itself in the middle of a co-op game. Somewhat good performance and behaviour is (or at least was originally) absolutely necessary to getting traction, a bunch of checkboxes would not suffice.
zimpenfish 6y ago
> But I never saw a company that uses discord for communication. Currently working at a place where at least one, if not two, teams use Discord for daily chatting. Official meetings are mostly handled over Zoom but I believe their intra-team stuff tends to happen over Discord.
haar 6y ago
The closest I've found is the Spotify open-source project "Backstage", which uses Discord for communication (https://github.com/backstage/backstage https://github.com/backstage/backstage) - I have no idea about the rest of Spotify, mind.
rkangel 6y ago
My view is that they solved voice communication first - that was their original use case. Reliable multi-party voice is a harder problem than text chat and means that you can't/don't just rely on Electron for everything. Their product is a way to 'sell' some good non-trivial (but not groundbreaking) engineering. Whereas Slack is successful because it understood it's usecase well (including how to sell to enterprises).
jbirer 6y ago
Budgets are not a subtitute for programming talent and willingness to experiment it seems.
ibraheemdev 6y ago
A lot of opensource teams use Rust for communication
- hultner 6y ago
  I know that rust is the greatest latest thing but I’m still not quite convinced of it’s excellence as a communication platform.

masklinn 6y ago

> I always found it strange that an app aimed for gaming really has better performance than slack/teams Makes sense to me, its users would be running games alongside the software, and would be quite cross with the software shitting itself in the middle of a co-op game. Somewhat good performance and behaviour is (or at least was originally) absolutely necessary to getting traction, a bunch of checkboxes would not suffice.

zimpenfish 6y ago

> But I never saw a company that uses discord for communication. Currently working at a place where at least one, if not two, teams use Discord for daily chatting. Official meetings are mostly handled over Zoom but I believe their intra-team stuff tends to happen over Discord.

haar 6y ago

The closest I've found is the Spotify open-source project "Backstage", which uses Discord for communication (https://github.com/backstage/backstage https://github.com/backstage/backstage) - I have no idea about the rest of Spotify, mind.

rkangel 6y ago

My view is that they solved voice communication first - that was their original use case. Reliable multi-party voice is a harder problem than text chat and means that you can't/don't just rely on Electron for everything. Their product is a way to 'sell' some good non-trivial (but not groundbreaking) engineering. Whereas Slack is successful because it understood it's usecase well (including how to sell to enterprises).

jbirer 6y ago

Budgets are not a subtitute for programming talent and willingness to experiment it seems.

ibraheemdev 6y ago

A lot of opensource teams use Rust for communication

hultner 6y ago
I know that rust is the greatest latest thing but I’m still not quite convinced of it’s excellence as a communication platform.