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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by lordCarbonFiber on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:24PM (#14748608)
A closed source walled garden chat service that survives purely on the free flow of VC capital 100% has no long term viability. No federation means as soon as the "next thing" shows up and wins way the VC dollars they'll disappear. It's so incredibly frusterating that so many companies and users make/support these closed environments even as we enter a new golden age of open sourced and federated technologies.
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by jakebasile on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:46PM (#14748724)
If there was an open source and federated equivalent to the features Discord provides I'd use it. There is no such product. Matrix is interesting, but the experience is no where near as polished as Discord and friends and that matters for mass adoption.
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by aphextron on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:21AM (#14750272)
>If there was an open source and federated equivalent to the features Discord provides I'd use it.

But will you pay for Discord though? The features and quality Discord is able to provide are artificially propped up by VC funding. When it runs dry, we will be left with open source offerings, or the next product to take it's place and repeat the cycle.

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by connorcpu on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @06:46PM (#14757334)
I already pay $5/mo for Discord. Animated avatars and cross-server custom emoji were enough to entice me
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by mahyarm on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:55PM (#14755426)
I would if they made the corporate / generic edition ;) It's better than slack
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by Arathorn on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @08:11AM (#14751810)
We are working as hard as we can on polishing Matrix. Making it mass user friendly is simply our #1 priority. Folks can help directly (beyond PRs, bug reports and feature requests) by donating at https://patreon.com/matrixdotorg.
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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users by andruby on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @09:34AM (#14752373)
Maybe Matrix can learn from Discord's technology choices? :)
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