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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by wayn3 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:19PM (#13980287)
its just hyper-targeted towards twitch streamers. it integrates with all the twitch functionality, like channel subscriptions etc.

most streamers have a discord channel now and they bring their entire audience. thats why its growing at such a broken rate.

for every even medium sized streamer they convert, they get thousands of active users.

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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by shuntress on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:24PM (#13980327)
That makes a lot of sense. I don't really interact on twitch at all so those features of Discord are lost on me.
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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by CrystalLangUser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @04:31PM (#13980384)
It's really popular with the Twitch community now, but Discord has been a solid alternative to Skype for a very long time. The twitch integration is relatively recent.
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Re:Twitch to start selling video games this week by uncoder0 on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:33PM (#13980915)
Twitch was the tipping point though. Their twitch advertising they started doing in late 2014 early 2015 was key to their rapid growth.
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