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Aren't people already preferring Discord? I saw a lot of Discord links in the past few months and nobody even talked about Slack.

by foepys 6y ago

symlinkk 6y ago
When are people going to realize that software is largely a fashion industry? Slack was in style, now it’s not. Right now Zoom is the hot new thing, give it half a year and it’ll be out. None of these products do anything functionally different than their predecessors, it’s just aesthetic.
- Spivak 6y ago
  I don’t think software would be so fad-oriented if there wasn’t a culture of infinite growth and expansion.
- tootie 6y ago
  I think Zoom is actually appreciably better than the competition. And I also think there's still a lot more space for video conferencing to innovate. Company's like Zoom that sell integrated conference setups can integrate themselves pretty thoroughly into an enterprise.
corytheboyd 6y ago
Can’t wait to go through this same exact routine in a few years lol
- troughway 6y ago
  Discord is an interesting case compared to Slack. Slack is, from my understanding anyway, built out in PHP. Fairly lingua franca for the web. Discord, on the other hand, seems to have built a "technical moat" of sorts for themselves by using Erlang/Elixir and other non-standard tech. Suppose SF or a company like them were to acquire Discord. If and when the staff were to leave once their vesting period or whatever is over, who would take over the codebase from them?
  - corytheboyd 6y ago
    In practice I’m not so sure I think that’s really a concern, especially for a company like Salesforce. They could probably just afford to let it stagnate while they dangle massive salaries in front of the few that could actually maintain the codebase. And it’s not like everyone would leave immediately after the acquisition... but definitely very soon after haha

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Aren't people already preferring Discord? I saw a lot of Discord links in the past few months and nobody even talked about Slack.

by foepys 6y ago

Aren't people already preferring Discord? I saw a lot of Discord links in the past few months and nobody even talked about Slack.

symlinkk 6y ago
When are people going to realize that software is largely a fashion industry? Slack was in style, now it’s not. Right now Zoom is the hot new thing, give it half a year and it’ll be out. None of these products do anything functionally different than their predecessors, it’s just aesthetic.
- Spivak 6y ago
  I don’t think software would be so fad-oriented if there wasn’t a culture of infinite growth and expansion.
- tootie 6y ago
  I think Zoom is actually appreciably better than the competition. And I also think there's still a lot more space for video conferencing to innovate. Company's like Zoom that sell integrated conference setups can integrate themselves pretty thoroughly into an enterprise.
corytheboyd 6y ago
Can’t wait to go through this same exact routine in a few years lol
- troughway 6y ago
  Discord is an interesting case compared to Slack. Slack is, from my understanding anyway, built out in PHP. Fairly lingua franca for the web. Discord, on the other hand, seems to have built a "technical moat" of sorts for themselves by using Erlang/Elixir and other non-standard tech. Suppose SF or a company like them were to acquire Discord. If and when the staff were to leave once their vesting period or whatever is over, who would take over the codebase from them?
  - corytheboyd 6y ago
    In practice I’m not so sure I think that’s really a concern, especially for a company like Salesforce. They could probably just afford to let it stagnate while they dangle massive salaries in front of the few that could actually maintain the codebase. And it’s not like everyone would leave immediately after the acquisition... but definitely very soon after haha