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This is a major win for Discord.
by juvoni 6y ago
This is a major win for Discord.
- ehejsbbejsk 6y agoHow so?
- tiborsaas 6y agoThey are not Slack.
- offtop5 6y agoI'd argue that discord brand simply doesn't lend itself well to business. maybe they'll spin off a business oriented division with a different name,
- jeffbee 6y agoBecause "slack" is so business-like?
- offtop5 6y agoLook at the use cases. Discord is very much known for people talking about video games , not much else. Slack started as an internal business tool and it remains so.
- Spivak 6y agoDiscord also caters to small-med non-gaming online communities almost by accident because the kinds of moderation features you'd need are the same as if you were a streamer with an audience.
- steveklabnik 6y agoThere's a bunch of open source projects using it now as well. I have two separate family Discord servers. Quite a few social ones that aren't specifically gaming focused too.
- tguedes 6y agoSlack has actual administrator tools unlike Discord. Discord very clearly has no interest in the capturing any significant market share in the business space.
- parliament32 6y agoIt's not the literal name, it's the reputation.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoDiscord's problem isn't it's name. Discord's entire interface is based around gaming. It shows your running game in the UI, it integrates with Steam, etc. It's loading messages are all based on gaming culture. It just doesn't present itself as something you'd consider for your business.
- ripdog 6y agoThe loading messages were replaced with generic non-playful ones relatively recently, FYI.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoGood to know. I have some Discord groups and contacts, but I don't spend a lot of time in it. I actually find the playful messages somewhat endearing, but I feel like they'd be better off launching an entirely separate client if they want to appeal to businesses.
- MH15 6y agoThe problem with Discord isn't the branding, it's the license. Anything you send in Discord can be used for branding material by Discord. Not good for a business.
- Spivak 6y agoIt's not really about the name or the branding but that fact that Discord's primary market and the driving force behind all their features is gaming communities. Business, for worse, will demand features catered to their workflow.
- dapids 6y agoYou do realize slack has an entire enterprise product offering, even for HIPAA businesses and industries.?
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- stickfigure 6y agoBizcord. That was easy.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoBizcord 360
- Hamuko 6y agoCreate a new login system, make the white theme default and call it "Discord Business". Done.
- runawaybottle 6y agoAnd integrate business twitch streams please, with company email footers always reading ‘don’t forget to sub to my stream’. Let the twisted fantasy play out where the business world lives like esports streamers and wow raiding guilds.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoWhat will be the corporate version of the famous "Leeroy Jenkins" moment in WoW?
- zelias 6y agoEdward Snowden
- runawaybottle 6y agoI don’t know, I’d love to see a new trend of startups ipo’ing as penny stocks prematurely. Can’t get more Leroy than that. ‘And we’re going public on day 1!’
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- badsectoracula 6y agoMaybe, though this reminds me of the story where Borland's management decided to move away from the "hacker" style ethos and mainstream audience so that they chase after the "enterprise" businesses and ended up alienating their own engineers, their existing customers and screwing up themselves over the years to the point where they went from being one of the biggest software houses in the computer industry to a little ball that is painted and thrown around owners that operate akin to digital graveyards.
- Izkata 6y ago"Harmony", perhaps?
- tilolebo 6y agoDiscord is awesome but do they propose any kind of plan for businesses?
- emidln 6y agoMattermost too. Slack competitors are going to benefit from companies not wanting to touch Salesforce with a 10 foot pole.
- denimnerd42 6y agoMy company uses mattermost for over 100k employees.
- c0nducktr 6y agoJust curious - are you self-hosting, or using their SaaS product?
- benhurmarcel 6y agoMy company has a similar size, and we have a self-hosted Mattermost instance. We're switching away because the executives bought into another product but that's a different story, Mattermost works well at that size.
- denimnerd42 6y agoself hosting. having some growing pains performance wise with it due to election / end of year change freezes. ouch
- dubme1 6y agoMine too. Finance?
- denimnerd42 6y agoyes
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- Spartan-S63 6y agoIt's a major opportunity for them, for sure. They are still missing some features I find critical, but they really have things figured out with integrated voice/video communications in the app. The one feature I wish they'd clone from Slack are threaded replies. I know they're rolling out a new way to reply, but it still makes the chat flow messy. I really enjoyed the way Slack allows for breakout threads/replies to a particular message. It was a great way to display enough context, but not make the flow confusing.
- xxpor 6y agoOh my god the absolute worst thing about slack are threads. Can we please not bring them to anything else? how do they provide any value whatsoever other than making it hard to realize someone responded to you? Signed, Someone who used IRC for decades
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- duxup 6y agoSerious question, is Discord making efforts to get into the "business messaging" (can't think of a better term) type space?
- somehnrdr14726 6y agoHonestly confused why Salesforce didn't buy Discord instead. Discord's entire business model seemed to be geared toward toppling Steam by perfecting community features and then expanding into digital sales. Right when they launched their game store, Epic Games started one too and was throwing around Fortnite money to lock in exclusives. Discord quickly retreated and has seemed rudderless for the past year. They already started shifting away from their gamer branding. Earlier this year they generalized to online communities. And they have a formidable architecture. Some game servers have 6 digit user counts. Their permission model is also way more robust than Slack's, and that's not an easy gap to close given how tightly woven into the architecture a permission model needs to be. In comparison to Slack, this all could have been had for pennies on the dollar. They must really want the brand, or the customer base, or to already have the enterprise feature gap closed.
- Axsuul 6y agoSlack's customer base has a lot more in common to Salesforce's than Discord's. Furthermore, Discord is not a business tool and far from it.
- epaga 6y agoAbsolutely. Our smallish company has used Discord all year long for our company communication and I could hardly be happier. They have an excellent bot API, a super clean yet playful interface, instant search and just don't feel/smell as "enterprisey" as Slack already felt (and that was well before now being acquired by Salesforce). If Discord can maintain all those things and add a bit more Microsoft integration, they have a huge opportunity here. (Either that or Microsoft can preempt the whole thing and acquire Discord).
- wcarss 6y agoAs someone working har on a scrappy alternative to slack, this feels like a major win for us, too. For every competitor, really.
- jasonblais 6y agoCertainly an opportunity for Discord, but I wonder how big of an opportunity. Their target audience is more casual whereas Slack's has shifted to more work/Enterprise-focused. So their audiences don't overlap as much as they used to. It will be interesting how this impacts Mattermost [1] though - an open source developer collaboration tool for Enterprises, a closer competitor to Slack. [1] http://mattermost.com/ http://mattermost.com/