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I wonder if Discord will ever catch on in the corporate world. I use Slack for work and Discord for recreation. Is it just me, or does Discord just seem vastly

by datpuz 4y ago

I wonder if Discord will ever catch on in the corporate world. I use Slack for work and Discord for recreation. Is it just me, or does Discord just seem vastly superior to Slack? Slack is so tedious to navigate by comparison, especially when you have many channels with separate PMs in them. Discord just continues to get better in the right ways, but Slack just feels bloated with features that it takes too much effort to find what you need.

joshstrange 4y ago
I'm the same way. Slack for my day job and multiple Discord servers for my friend groups. I greatly prefer Discord over Slack (replies being one of the things I like most, stop trying to make ~~fetch~~ threads happen Slack). The only thing I wish Discord supported better are group chats (not on a server). They support them but there is no way to "pin" them to the main sidebar. In general I wish I had more control over the Discord sidebar (show specific channels and/or group chats).
pie_flavor 4y ago
The value of Slack is its integrations with dozens of business apps like Jira. They don't focus much on end user UX because that's not the point of it - they deliver straight business value. It wasn't until recently Discord bots were capable of much other than parsing chat messages and reactions for input, let alone the full menus google calendar puts into Slack. I'd love a Discord frontend to slack (see https://cancel.fm/ripcord https://cancel.fm/ripcord for a serious attempt at one) but Slack itself is not going away anytime soon.
phendrenad2 4y ago
It's inevitable. Discord is still not profitable, and when it comes time to pay the bills with real money, they'll probably scramble to re-brand themselves with a boring name (maybe Coherence - the opposite of Discord) and try to capture some corporate clients. I can just hear the salespeople now: "We're just like Slack, only better!" (No mention of gamers anywhere).
satiric 4y ago
When slack had threads and discord didn't it was vastly superior, because without threads everything is a jumbled mess. I still find slack's threads implementation to be better.

by datpuz 4y ago

joshstrange 4y ago

I'm the same way. Slack for my day job and multiple Discord servers for my friend groups. I greatly prefer Discord over Slack (replies being one of the things I like most, stop trying to make ~~fetch~~ threads happen Slack). The only thing I wish Discord supported better are group chats (not on a server). They support them but there is no way to "pin" them to the main sidebar. In general I wish I had more control over the Discord sidebar (show specific channels and/or group chats).

pie_flavor 4y ago

The value of Slack is its integrations with dozens of business apps like Jira. They don't focus much on end user UX because that's not the point of it - they deliver straight business value. It wasn't until recently Discord bots were capable of much other than parsing chat messages and reactions for input, let alone the full menus google calendar puts into Slack. I'd love a Discord frontend to slack (see https://cancel.fm/ripcord https://cancel.fm/ripcord for a serious attempt at one) but Slack itself is not going away anytime soon.

phendrenad2 4y ago

It's inevitable. Discord is still not profitable, and when it comes time to pay the bills with real money, they'll probably scramble to re-brand themselves with a boring name (maybe Coherence - the opposite of Discord) and try to capture some corporate clients. I can just hear the salespeople now: "We're just like Slack, only better!" (No mention of gamers anywhere).

satiric 4y ago

When slack had threads and discord didn't it was vastly superior, because without threads everything is a jumbled mess. I still find slack's threads implementation to be better.