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If they start requiring a Microsoft account to sign in like they did with Mixer then I know a bunch of people will be out, including me. If they treat it like
by wayneftw 6y ago
If they start requiring a Microsoft account to sign in like they did with Mixer then I know a bunch of people will be out, including me.
If they treat it like GitHub and let it be it's own thing then maybe I'll stick around. I doubt they're going to treat it like that though because they don't treat gamers like they do devs.
Maybe now's a good time for somebody to start building an alternative.
- etempleton 6y agoI wonder. You are right, they would probably force accounts become Microsoft accounts at some point. I think there is also going to be higher public expectations of moderating and monitoring of what is discussed on Discord if Microsoft owns them. That may not be a headache that Microsoft even wants to deal with.
- shermablanca 6y agoThere is an alternative, and it's quite good. https://www.guilded.gg/ https://www.guilded.gg/
- techdragon 6y agoThe issue is that we are entering a phase where secondary services are adding value on top of discord. Things like Patreon integration for content creators, numerous service specific bots and a growing number of VOIP related integrations (for example https://craig.chat/home/ https://craig.chat/home/) make it harder to consider alternatives as replacements.
- fragileone 6y agoThere already is an alternative which HN loves https://element.io/ https://element.io/ https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/
- 0xFF0123 6y agoThey haven't messed with Mojang / Minecraft too heavily (or altered the login flow)
- joelellis 6y ago> or altered the login flow Mojang recently announced that all mojang.com accounts would be migrated to Microsoft accounts. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/mojang-account-move https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/mojang-account-move