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Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B
- burlesona 6y agoThis site doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Is any more legitimate source available to corroborate this rumor?
- pcthrowaway 6y agoThey've done pretty well with github. Actually I suspect Discord might be intended for integrating with github communities, which sounds like a really nice idea to me to be honest.
- swiley 6y agoOnly if they add a jabber or matrix/IRC bridge. Not being able to join the project group chat unless you run closed software from Microsoft sounds awful.
- Ballu 6y agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft-said-to-be-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10b https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/microsoft...
- pickledish 6y agoThis was also discussed a day or two ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429
- hctaw 6y agoI would unironically love Discord for Business, unless it just becomes a re-skinned MS Teams (re-skinned Skype for Business, which was re-skinned Lync)
- tmikaeld 6y agoOr like LinkedIn...
- tompazourek 6y agoI think that isn't entirely correct. MS Teams was built separately from the Lync/Skype for business app AFAIK.
- PanosJee 6y agoThey should buy Tradingview too. Top 70 site globally, 30M MAUs
- post_break 6y agoPlease no. I love discord and after seeing what they did to my boy skype. I can just see all the bans coming in just like tumblr did.
- janderson3 6y agoMicrosoft to buy a communications platform? I guess today's Microsoft isn't the same one that bought Skype but this comedy video of the "Skype CEO" is terribly relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
- wccrawford 6y agoIt's funny, because as I remember it, locking down multiple-person video chats was about when they started to die. They even briefly touch on that in the video, too. I remember that they did some other stupid things around the same time, but not what they were.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThe soon-to-be-banned channels should move to telegram then.
- jchw 6y agoOnce upon a time... I left IRC, and when doing so I ended up hooking up with some of my friends from IRC on Skype. After much complaining about the poor state of Skype for Linux and Skype on Mobile, I left Skype for Discord somewhere around 2015. Is it time to leave Discord for IRC again? :)
- brendoelfrendo 6y agoI just think it's amusing that Discord is worth more than all of ZeniMax and its subsidiaries/their collective IP combined.
- darness-2 6y agoTime to consider IRC and Jitsi.