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Discord is great for voice and gaming but not a good tool for anything vaguely professional. Maybe Element/Matrix?

• solarkraft 4y ago
  Voice is the killer feature. Channels, not calls! Matrix doesn't have that yet and I'm not confident the new feature will actually be good. As silly as Discord is in some places with all its ads and artificial limits, Element is glitchier, even slower and has even weirder UX choices, which I tend to find more impairing. As far as I know Discord also has better integration with other tools (bots for Github and Jira). That makes it more suitable for professional use in my book - as long as you don't mind compromising on privacy and availability, but it's the same deal as with any other SaaS. From an idealistic perspective I like Matrix and dislike Discord, of course, but the usability differences are hard to ignore.
  • Arathorn 4y ago
    fwiw Element added video rooms (and shortly voice rooms) the other week: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-rooms-and-a-new-search-experience https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro... We’re improving glitchiness & perf.
• Aeolun 4y ago
  Just because it looks unprofessional? Because the only negative (aside from lock in) that I can think of would be the lack of SSO.
• charcircuit 4y ago
  >but not a good tool for anything vaguely professional Why? Discord servers can definitely be serious.