We started using Discord the same way at my last company when the pandemic hit and everyone had to go remote-only overnight. It was immensely valuable for foste

We started using Discord the same way at my last company when the pandemic hit and everyone had to go remote-only overnight. It was immensely valuable for fostering a sense of presence and we were pretty proud to call it our "virtual office". Slack Huddles and Zoom can't hold a candle to it. Zoom doesn't foster a sense of "who's online now?" discovery (since it's used a lot as a tool for intercompany communication, and it's none of your vendors' business whether you're online now or not) and Slack Huddles doesn't default to having your speakers on, you need to decide to join the huddle, which is too much friction. $75/month (for a level 2 upgraded Discord chatroom, for upgraded audio), for a 50-100 person startup, was an incredibly good value. It wasn't quite the same as an in-person pop-in, you can't grab your coworker's keyboard to show them something when you share screens, but it's 80+% of the same thing. Which is why it's really sad that Discord doesn't scale for enterprise usage. No enterprise SSO, no way to search through or organize an ever-growing list of voice channels with an ever-growing number of people in them, no way to force the employees you invite to use their real names as their usernames so user management becomes difficult. We would have easily made the decision to throw Discord $10+/user/month if they would have decided to address the enterprise market. Shame.