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What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot? Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server? What do I talk about when I join the Mic
by quadruple 7mo ago
What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot?
Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server?
What do I talk about when I join the Microsoft Copilot server?
What are we doing here?
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- xmcqdpt2 7mo agoMaybe all the users are OpenClaw instances?
- TheAceOfHearts 7mo agoI'd imagine that there's some discussion about how to make the most out of the tool as well as discussion of experiments and capabilities. I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore because of the multiple rebrands, but having a place where you can discuss exploring plugins and other adjacent features seems useful. Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities centered around Claude Code for discussion about people's workflows as well as discussion about what plugins people are using and if they notice it making a significant difference. Since the technology is still evolving, having an active community can help you discover new patterns and explore the space more effectively.
- avhception 7mo ago> [...] I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore [...] Watching from the sidelines (not a Microsoft user), I've completely lost track. Between this, the Azure 365 cloud whatever stuff, I have no idea what many of the products even exactly are any more.
- pixl97 7mo agoSimply put Microsoft is the worst company at naming stuff. Even when they come up with a good name for something, they'll name 3 other totally different products the same thing to maximize confusion.
- creaturemachine 7mo agoIt's the new .NET
- wongarsu 7mo agoActive Copilot.NET 365
- Sohcahtoa82 7mo agoShould we tack on an "XP" for good measure?
- avhception 7mo agoXbox XP 360 365
- Izikiel43 7mo agoThat wasn't so bad compared to Xbox, I still don't know which Xbox is the latest one.
- WorldMaker 7mo agoXbox Series with X > S (so if you want the high end of the current generation you want the Xbox Series X; if you want mid-range things are more complicated because you can now get an Xbox One X, but not the Xbox One, used for much less than you'd get an Xbox Series S for and which one is "better" is a dice roll depending on the games you want to play and if 4K matters to you…) Series is a real weird word to use there. But it also doesn't help that the versions are extra complicated because with "PC-like compatibility" in everything after the Xbox One playing just about the entire same library you need a bit of a matrix to figure out which is best for you if you don't care about the "latest and greatest".
- amlib 7mo agoAfter thoroughly reading your explanation I've decided to buy a new Xbox One! Weirdly it only has 8GB of internal storage...
- poly2it 7mo agoSeriously? Does anybody know what Copilot is? I don't think I have ever seem a "Copilot user", so I don't know what it looks like. Is it the little macro key on new laptop keyboards? The chatbot you get in Bing? A technical philosophy? Or is it in essence just copilot.com, the mediocre chat interface which you used to get free GPT-4 three years ago?
- mghackerlady 7mo agoThe copilot button isn't even a "button" in a traditional sense, it just maps to win+shift+f23
- miriam_catira 7mo agoI wish. I got a Dell laptop for work and they've replaced the right Ctrl key with a Copilot key, and (because it's a locked-down work sysyem) the only thing I can remap that to is the Windows menu. And I keep hitting it out of muscle memory, interrupting everything. But at least now it doesn't launch Copilot. Which I could add is "the only AI approved for use by IT" because they hate us.
- 3eb7988a1663 7mo agoDouble check if the (hopefully not locked) BIOS gives an option to customize the CTRL key. I had a previous work laptop which also got cute with the CTRL button, but thankfully did let you remap it.
- wolvoleo 7mo ago> Which I could add is "the only AI approved for use by IT" because they hate us. It's the same at our place. It's basically the lowest effort way as we already have data agreements with Microsoft 365 it eliminates a lot of the paperwork. And they do promise that they won't train on data even in the free (well, included with basic M365) version for corporate users. A lot of others don't unless you pay. It's too bad because it seems to be the worst AI around. Even compared to ChatGPT itself which uses the same model as copilot in MS Office. I don't really understand why there's such a difference. If you do pay the $30 it's a bit better especially the researcher.
- AlienRobot 7mo agoThere is a chance that it's actually a Microsoft Office discord that was rebranded to Microsoft Copilot.
- dec0dedab0de 7mo agoI'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore I'm pretty sure Clippy and Rover had a child and it got bit by a radioactive LLM.
- athenot 7mo ago> I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore It's highly reminiscent of "IBM Watson" a few years ago. Basically the add-on brand to make them look cooler.
- phs318u 7mo agoDid you find the Claude community you were looking for?
- snowram 7mo agoIt reminds me of the US army and their fabulous idea to open a Twitch channel. Went as well as you expect.
- Cthulhu_ 7mo agoSometimes they have good ideas, America's Army was pretty popular for a while for example.
- HardwareLust 7mo agoIn the late 90s/early 2000's, AA was lit. Really good competitive shooter for free.
- peaseagee 7mo agoAnd decent on Linux when that was very hard to come by!
- airstrike 7mo agoHow do you do, fellow kids?
- sunaookami 7mo agoThe same as every other Discord server: Giving a few people the feeling of power over dozens of channels with memes and unsearchable low-quality "discussions".
- wiseowise 7mo agoIt’s just another checkbox in someone’s performance review, no need to think too hard about it.
- g947o 7mo agoI have been in similar groups, and trust me, there are a lot of very enthusiastic users sharing their tools, success stories etc. I stopped paying attention after a while as they get repetitive.
- game_the0ry 7mo agoThey saw other successful AI products with discords (like midjourney) and then they probably just copied the idea thinking they would get similar success from it. That's a lot of what big corp america strategy boils down to -- copy your competitors. Don't get me wrong, creating a passionate community around a product is a great strategy for many reasons, but microsoft never had passionate users in the first place. And it is telling that they are banning humor and criticism form their community, it shows they do not want have any criticism for their product, which is one of the benefits of community (fast and honest feedback loops). Its sort of like north korea where saying anything bad about the "great leader" or else. That's not a fun community, that is a community people want to leave but can't bc they will get shot at the border.
- neutronicus 7mo agoI have Copilot through work. I haven't used the Discord, but having a place to ask for help using it doesn't seem farfetched.
- hbosch 7mo agoBeing Microsoft, you'd think they would just offer a public Teams server instead? Not that you'd get more traction with it, but at least it's in-house and theoretically they would be motivated to build integrations on top.
- docmars 7mo agoPretty ironic, isn't it? You'd think they'd have enough faith in Teams to compete with Discord on this front. The friction comes from having to sign up for different forums or services. I'd wager fewer people use (or even like) Teams than Discord among the tech enthusiast types who are willing to give them feedback on their product.
- zamadatix 7mo agoEh, good on them for not trying to act like Teams targets the same use cases as Discord just because Teams is an internal product. One is focused on the internal chats and groups within the business with occasional well defined outsiders and the other is more targeting something like live social media for consumers. I'm not even sure if there is a way to have a team/channel for external users that they don't need to be invited to (I know you can jump through hoops to make it so they don't need to be guests in your tenant at least) or that there should necessarily be something like that in the first place.
- Merad 7mo agoAn awful lot of corporate workers are stuck with Copilot as their only approved chat option, so some of them are probably trying to learn how to get the best results they can from it.
- tencentshill 7mo agoSomeone wanted to get paid to be a Discord mod.
- laserbeam 7mo agoIt needs a Discord Server because MS Teams is just that good X_X
- zamalek 7mo agoThere are communities who gobble up anything Microsoft produces. People in the Microsoft MVP program are usually in this camp - if you want to find examples. Me and my coder friends were part of the fandom, but with just me and my biased N=10 sample set; this fanbase is evaporating quickly (but I still know some hardcore "azure thumpers").
- jajuuka 7mo agoNot just people like that. I'm always searching for better ways to do things and dive into things deeper. Including Windows and Copilot. So having spaces for that can be helpful. Most public forums are unfortunately just complaint departments. Nobody wants to solve anything, they just want to complain with some projection of David and Goliath. It's really annoying. I want to find more positive spaces but for a lot of tech it's just negative all the way down. Maybe I'm just crazy for enjoying tech still and not being committed to an OS religion.
- rsynnott 7mo agoIt's for this audience: https://www.theregister.com/2009/09/14/verity_stob_abigails_party/ https://www.theregister.com/2009/09/14/verity_stob_abigails_... (Microsoft _actually_ encouraged 'fans' to have Windows 7 Launch Parties...)
- docmars 7mo agoFor the same reason any company or open-source project uses Discord: it's a quick way to gather feedback and study how people use your products, without forcing users to sign up for something new if they already use Discord with a wide range of other servers.
- WorldMaker 7mo agoThe Discord server for Midjourney is said to be one its biggest use point, the source of its largest audience, and one of its biggest sales funnels. Even as other image models have grown more powerful/capable, Discord has been suggested (or blamed, depending on perspective) for keeping Midjourney one of the most popular ones. I would not be surprised if some PM at Microsoft heard about that and made it a box to check without understanding why the Midjourney Discord became so popular/remains so popular (I've heard it is basically a "Gen Z meme farm" and full of nonsense even "worse" than the term "Microslop"; so far I've managed to avoid that Discord and have only heard second-hand tales).
- Fnoord 7mo ago> I've heard it is basically a "Gen Z meme farm" Oh, hello, climate change fan club :>
- pwillia7 7mo agoI mean it was the only way to use MidJourney when it released, which is why it's so popular and part of the midjourney community
- endymion-light 7mo agoisn't that literally just because the only way to use midjourney was with a weird discord bot for ages?
- swrobel 7mo agoSir, this is an Arby’s