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One could copy-paste Discord, replace all occurrences of "gaming" for "enterprise" and it would be a much better business communication platform than Slack.
by young_unixer 6y ago
One could copy-paste Discord, replace all occurrences of "gaming" for "enterprise" and it would be a much better business communication platform than Slack.
- dmlittle 6y agoI don't think this is true. You can't really join/leave channels on Discord (yes I'm aware you can use roles to give permissions but it's not the same).
- otterlicious 6y agoI've never used Slack but in Microsoft Teams there are Teams and Channels and they pretty much map 1:1 to Discord's Servers and Text Channels. You cannot leave individual channels of a Team though you can mute them and you have even less permissions than Discord. So maybe it isn't a 1:1 replacement for Slack but it certainly could compete in the field.
- astauf5 6y agoTeams is garbage compared to Discord or even Slack imo. Complete garbage UI.
- zacharycohn 6y agoThis is my biggest complaint about Discord, and the reason I rarely check the few servers I'm on. There are three channels out of 80 I'm interested in. Just let me leave them!
- square_usual 6y agoYou can mute channels and hide them, or mute sections, or mute chanells and collapse the sections they are in. There are lots of ways to get channels you don't want out of your face.
- Macha 6y agoThis isn't scalable. My employer has many many thousands of channels on our slack instance. Opt in is so much better than opt out at that level
- square_usual 6y agoYou can opt-in with role-based permissions. Discord has been used by massive servers with hundreds of thousands of users, it's a bit involved to set up but it's not impossible. You can even automate a lot of it with bots.
- Macha 6y agoYou understand that an admin needing to set up a channel, a bot and a role is a bit more involved than any user just hitting create channel and inviting the relevant users/users searching and joining the public channel, right? EDIT: Another example of discord's permission system being a poor match for the business use case is pinning messages to the channel is the same permission as deleting other user's messages. Additionally, the channel per server limit is 500.
- wincy 6y agoAnd replace all instances of “Discord” with “Harmony” and you have the perfect Enterprise chat tool!
- easterncalculus 6y agoMessage threading would make it better though.
- hackmiester 6y agoGod please no. I would disable this in slack in an instant if I could. I dread the day it becomes available in any other platform I use.
- ayyy 6y agoUnderrated opinion right here. It's like they took IRC, saw it worked for businesses, and were like "how can we fuck this up, slowly, to destroy the very essence of what made chat channels useful in the first place?".
- eric_cc 6y agoWhy? It's a really fantastic feature in my opinion that turns a noisy chat room into more of a focused forum.
- hackmiester 6y agoThe issue for my Slack workspaces is that they are not noisy. So what happens is, people (inadvertently?) make threads, which then turns off notifications about that conversation for everyone else, therefore taking them out of the loop. And because the room is not noisy, they may not notice that they've missed the conversation until hours or even days have passed.
- eric_cc 6y agoAh that makes total sense!
- Macha 6y agoThey're inching towards this it seems, they've been incrementing rolling out revisions to the new reply UI for the last couple of weeks.