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Wonder how many people are going to think discord.io is officially related to discordapp.com/discord.com.

by gochi 3y ago

Klathmon 3y ago
Probably most, considering it's Discord's logo and screenshots of their app used in the article, and discord.io isn't loading with 522 errors right now so you can't exactly check.
axus 3y ago
It sounds more official than discord.gg
- mattl 3y ago
  It shouldn't really. .gg and .io are being used for novelty value.
  - deprecative 3y ago
    It's definitely not just me but I only have a data point of one to use: Anytime I see something that isn't .com, .org, or .gov I immediately assume it's less than reputable at best and actively trying to scam/phish me at worst.
    - mattl 3y ago
      Yeah, there's a difference between .com .net .org .gov and many of the country code TLDs when you're looking for non-local content.
    - thih9 3y ago
      I got curious and decided to check which popular websites that I use are not on a .com / .org domain. I found: kubernetes.io , sentry.io , codepen.io , itch.io , not to mention lever.co , elastic.co and last but not the least, notion.so .
      - bredren 3y ago
        It had been that companies that “made” it would eventually pick up the .com. But it seems like it is more common to stick with whatever TLD they had before.
      - bee_rider 3y ago
        The .so TLD, very dynamic.
    - Symbiote 3y ago
      With the obvious exception of sites correctly associated to the country of their domain. A tourist attraction in Guernsey can very reasonably use .gg and maintain full credibility.
      - deprecative 3y ago
        As an American I don't trust most things with a .us TLD. I wouldn't trust another country's TLD, either. But like I said originally -- this is just me. I'm sure others feel like I do but I am not trying to speak for them.
        Symbiote 3y ago
        You can, of course, treat domains however you like, but it would be unfortunate to extend your approach worldwide. In many, many other countries the local domain is a strong signal of trust, often more so than a .com/.org. Thinking through websites I use in Denmark, I struggle to recall one that isn't .dk. Supermarkets (netto.dk, foetex.dk), public transport (dsb.dk, m.dk, cph.dk), newspapers/TV (politiken.dk, berlingske.dk, dr.dk), University (ku.dk, au.dk), local government (kk.dk), other retailers (computersalg.dk, proshop.dk, elgiganten.dk) ... The largest grocery delivery company uses nemlig.com, and Ikea uses ikea.com. As another example, if I'm applying online for a visa to Thailand, that site had better end .th.
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    .io has been used as a sort of general-purpose tld to signal sort of… I dunno, hip, dev-focused sites, right? It is at least slightly less novel than gg.
    - codetrotter 3y ago
      Agree, but it’s important to point out that .gg grew popular in the gaming crowd because “gg” in gaming means “good game”. It’s used in-game in the chat by many players of online multiplayer games as a way of thanking each other after a match. It can be used sincerely or it can also be used sarcastically but in the latter case you’d typically say “ggez” as a taunt implying that the win was easy (“ez”) because you are more skilled than your opposing team. And for .io of course that one is/was popular among tech companies because it looks similar to “I/O” (input/output).
    - mattl 3y ago
      .gg means "good game" so I can see why Discord would use it.
      - dancemethis 3y ago
        It's "winning" personal user data with ease. It fits.
      - bee_rider 3y ago
        Definitely, it is a sort of quirky and fun use of .gg. It is a little surprising given their field that they didn’t also grab the .io.
rpastuszak 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I genuinely thought that was the case! (My dog uses the native Discord client because he's too cheap to pay for a baby cam.)
- solardev 3y ago
  Your dog has more financial acumen than some humans...
- k8sToGo 3y ago
  Have you tried to increase the allowance for your dog?
  - ajmurmann 3y ago
    Maybe the lazy dog should get a part-time job like rescuing people in the Alps while carrying a little barrel of liquor or barking at people with drugs, money or fruit at the airport.
  - rpastuszak 3y ago
    Sort of. He just had a bath and my partner fed him. But we had to bribe him with a grissini to get into the tub. Can you pay for Discord in grissinis?
    - bonestamp2 3y ago
      Hold on, I'm making a deck right now to get funding for such a marketplace.
      - deleted 3y ago
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- hluska 3y ago
  Come on, your dog has a ruff life…:) Serious question though, do you use it as a dog monitor? That’s a good idea.
madeofpalk 3y ago
What is Discord.io?
- 3rd3 3y ago
  discord.io is a service that provides redirect/invite links/URLs to Discord servers.
  - pc86 3y ago
    "This service provides links for a chat app" is a crazy sentence.
    - jadamson 3y ago
      Getting a custom URL for a Discord server (e.g. discord.gg/hackernews) requires 14 "server boosts" which cost $35/year each, so nearly $500/year. There's a discount if you have their premium Nitro package, but even then it's something on the order of $300. Meanwhile discord.io is free and you won't lose your URL to a crypto scam server when someone forgets to renew their boost. Kind of inevitable that such a service would pop up.
      - xboxnolifes 3y ago
        I'm pretty sure it predates the ability to have a custom server url from boosting.
benatkin 3y ago
FWIW they were discordapp.com until May 4, 2020 https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042987951-Discordapp-com-is-now-Discord-com https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042987951-D... I remembered vaguely that it was something different from discord.com, and was fooled by discord.io :D
kalev 3y ago
That should be clarified in the HN title, imo
- deleted 3y ago
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paxys 3y ago
And this is exactly why companies protect their trademarks. A site called discord.io which offered services on top of Discord but wasn't affiliated with it in any way (but tricked users into believing so by using its logo and screenshots) should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
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  - davidhyde 3y ago
    You mean like “Apple”
  - paxys 3y ago
    Try to register a company called Apple that builds iPhone apps and you will find out pretty quick how well a sector-specific trademark can be enforced.
    - deleted 3y ago
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      - nerdponx 3y ago
        The word "apple" is not trademarked. The use of the name "Apple" in connection with computers is.
    - TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
      [flagged]
      - kdmccormick 3y ago
        My friend, you are quite confused about trademark law. If I try to sell computer gadgets under the name "Apple", leaving out the "Inc" isn't going to stop me from being sued.
wslh 3y ago
I would add: "unofficial" to the title or something that clarify the brand issue.
onehair 3y ago
Me, I've changed my password, until I read the title again and then this comment xD
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Rotations don’t hurt
  - mkagenius 3y ago
    But he forgot the new one
    - quickthrower2 3y ago
      Best kind of security
      - dancemethis 3y ago
        Not using particularly privacy-hostile platforms is the actual best kind of security.
- tcgv 3y ago
  Better safe than sorry ;)
princevegeta89 3y ago
Howdy, my first thought after seeing this headline was basically that the Discord messenger App got hacked and user info was stolen.
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Wonder how many people are going to think discord.io is officially related to discordapp.com/discord.com.

by gochi 3y ago

Wonder how many people are going to think discord.io is officially related to discordapp.com/discord.com.

Probably most, considering it's Discord's logo and screenshots of their app used in the article, and discord.io isn't loading with 522 errors right now so you can't exactly check.

axus 3y ago

It sounds more official than discord.gg

mattl 3y ago
It shouldn't really. .gg and .io are being used for novelty value.
- deprecative 3y ago
  It's definitely not just me but I only have a data point of one to use: Anytime I see something that isn't .com, .org, or .gov I immediately assume it's less than reputable at best and actively trying to scam/phish me at worst.
  - mattl 3y ago
    Yeah, there's a difference between .com .net .org .gov and many of the country code TLDs when you're looking for non-local content.
  - thih9 3y ago
    I got curious and decided to check which popular websites that I use are not on a .com / .org domain. I found: kubernetes.io , sentry.io , codepen.io , itch.io , not to mention lever.co , elastic.co and last but not the least, notion.so .
    - bredren 3y ago
      It had been that companies that “made” it would eventually pick up the .com. But it seems like it is more common to stick with whatever TLD they had before.
    - bee_rider 3y ago
      The .so TLD, very dynamic.
  - Symbiote 3y ago
    With the obvious exception of sites correctly associated to the country of their domain. A tourist attraction in Guernsey can very reasonably use .gg and maintain full credibility.
    - deprecative 3y ago
      As an American I don't trust most things with a .us TLD. I wouldn't trust another country's TLD, either. But like I said originally -- this is just me. I'm sure others feel like I do but I am not trying to speak for them.
      - Symbiote 3y ago
        You can, of course, treat domains however you like, but it would be unfortunate to extend your approach worldwide. In many, many other countries the local domain is a strong signal of trust, often more so than a .com/.org. Thinking through websites I use in Denmark, I struggle to recall one that isn't .dk. Supermarkets (netto.dk, foetex.dk), public transport (dsb.dk, m.dk, cph.dk), newspapers/TV (politiken.dk, berlingske.dk, dr.dk), University (ku.dk, au.dk), local government (kk.dk), other retailers (computersalg.dk, proshop.dk, elgiganten.dk) ... The largest grocery delivery company uses nemlig.com, and Ikea uses ikea.com. As another example, if I'm applying online for a visa to Thailand, that site had better end .th.
- bee_rider 3y ago
  .io has been used as a sort of general-purpose tld to signal sort of… I dunno, hip, dev-focused sites, right? It is at least slightly less novel than gg.
  - codetrotter 3y ago
    Agree, but it’s important to point out that .gg grew popular in the gaming crowd because “gg” in gaming means “good game”. It’s used in-game in the chat by many players of online multiplayer games as a way of thanking each other after a match. It can be used sincerely or it can also be used sarcastically but in the latter case you’d typically say “ggez” as a taunt implying that the win was easy (“ez”) because you are more skilled than your opposing team. And for .io of course that one is/was popular among tech companies because it looks similar to “I/O” (input/output).
  - mattl 3y ago
    .gg means "good game" so I can see why Discord would use it.
    - dancemethis 3y ago
      It's "winning" personal user data with ease. It fits.
    - bee_rider 3y ago
      Definitely, it is a sort of quirky and fun use of .gg. It is a little surprising given their field that they didn’t also grab the .io.

rpastuszak 3y ago

Thanks for pointing that out. I genuinely thought that was the case! (My dog uses the native Discord client because he's too cheap to pay for a baby cam.)

solardev 3y ago
Your dog has more financial acumen than some humans...
k8sToGo 3y ago
Have you tried to increase the allowance for your dog?
- ajmurmann 3y ago
  Maybe the lazy dog should get a part-time job like rescuing people in the Alps while carrying a little barrel of liquor or barking at people with drugs, money or fruit at the airport.
- rpastuszak 3y ago
  Sort of. He just had a bath and my partner fed him. But we had to bribe him with a grissini to get into the tub. Can you pay for Discord in grissinis?
  - bonestamp2 3y ago
    Hold on, I'm making a deck right now to get funding for such a marketplace.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
hluska 3y ago
Come on, your dog has a ruff life…:) Serious question though, do you use it as a dog monitor? That’s a good idea.

madeofpalk 3y ago

What is Discord.io?

3rd3 3y ago
discord.io is a service that provides redirect/invite links/URLs to Discord servers.
- pc86 3y ago
  "This service provides links for a chat app" is a crazy sentence.
  - jadamson 3y ago
    Getting a custom URL for a Discord server (e.g. discord.gg/hackernews) requires 14 "server boosts" which cost $35/year each, so nearly $500/year. There's a discount if you have their premium Nitro package, but even then it's something on the order of $300. Meanwhile discord.io is free and you won't lose your URL to a crypto scam server when someone forgets to renew their boost. Kind of inevitable that such a service would pop up.
    - xboxnolifes 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure it predates the ability to have a custom server url from boosting.

benatkin 3y ago

FWIW they were discordapp.com until May 4, 2020 https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042987951-Discordapp-com-is-now-Discord-com https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042987951-D... I remembered vaguely that it was something different from discord.com, and was fooled by discord.io :D

kalev 3y ago

That should be clarified in the HN title, imo

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paxys 3y ago

And this is exactly why companies protect their trademarks. A site called discord.io which offered services on top of Discord but wasn't affiliated with it in any way (but tricked users into believing so by using its logo and screenshots) should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago.

TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
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- davidhyde 3y ago
  You mean like “Apple”
- paxys 3y ago
  Try to register a company called Apple that builds iPhone apps and you will find out pretty quick how well a sector-specific trademark can be enforced.
  - deleted 3y ago
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    - nerdponx 3y ago
      The word "apple" is not trademarked. The use of the name "Apple" in connection with computers is.
  - TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - kdmccormick 3y ago
      My friend, you are quite confused about trademark law. If I try to sell computer gadgets under the name "Apple", leaving out the "Inc" isn't going to stop me from being sued.

wslh 3y ago

I would add: "unofficial" to the title or something that clarify the brand issue.

onehair 3y ago

Me, I've changed my password, until I read the title again and then this comment xD

quickthrower2 3y ago
Rotations don’t hurt
- mkagenius 3y ago
  But he forgot the new one
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    Best kind of security
    - dancemethis 3y ago
      Not using particularly privacy-hostile platforms is the actual best kind of security.
tcgv 3y ago
Better safe than sorry ;)

princevegeta89 3y ago

Howdy, my first thought after seeing this headline was basically that the Discord messenger App got hacked and user info was stolen.

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