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Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
- jboogie77 3y agoI hope the end is nigh for discord. Really is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever used
- artninja1988 3y agoWhat's a better alternative? I'd need something with voice/ video chats and servers
- blah-yeah 3y agoIRC ...oh... voice/video? ...not IRC
- michaelmrose 3y agoYou can drop a link to a meeting in any chat
- longitudinal93 3y agoMatrix will do all that
- artninja1988 3y agoMy impression is that matrix is run badly. Am I wrong?
- Arathorn 3y agospeaking as the project lead for Matrix: I haven’t done a great job of balancing “build new stuff to show off how amazing Matrix can be” and “make current stuff super polished and amazing”. However, we’ve spent the last few years plugging away addressing that, and I’d like to think the situation has improved significantly. Another consideration is that nobody yet has consciously gone out to build a Discord killer on top of Matrix. Element is currently focused on being a WhatsApp replacement for government users (as a way to bring in $ to make payroll), which often explains why folks expecting it to be a drop in replacement for Discord users have to readjust their expectations a bit. That said, Element could certainly end up competing proactively with Discord in the longer term. Meanwhile, Matrix certainly suffers from being successful enough to engender very strong feelings from folks who are disappointed in it. Whether that amounts to being run badly is probably a matter of perspective.
- gentleman11 3y agoBonus points if it’s encrypted enough to not have to worry about being snooped, open source, and/or easy to use
- anonym29 3y agorocket chat, mirotalk
- opan 3y agoIRC + Mumble remain king, but you could also try XMPP or Matrix.
- gnabgib 3y agoDiscussion yesterday: [0] (47 points, 55 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891263
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoThat reminds me, I was gonna add my girlfriend to my Matrix server.
- lazypenguin 3y agoToday in discord I got an ad for loot boxes. Every time I hovered over the ad blocking the bottom right of my screen it crashed. Everytine I played a YouTube video in the client it crashed. Every time I watched some screen share it crashed. Every time I shared screens it crashed. Discord has been mostly very nice for me but it’s a weird coincidence that when ads appeared the client became immediately less stable for me.
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoIt was an April Fools thing. Still annoying, but temporary.
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago[dupe]