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I'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,
by offtop5 6y ago
I'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?