Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by crowbahr on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:31PM (#19080339)

Discord isn't really a Slack competing product as much as it's a Teamspeak and Mumble competing product... or at least at the start.

Initially it was just easy to use VOIP with rich text chat channels. Now they've added in video calls and a video game store meaning they're more gunning for Steam and even less for Slack.

I do not see them as being Slack competing. They're too casually focused to be a threat in an enterprise environment.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by killyp on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:37PM (#19080385)

I completely forgot they added the video game store. That would kill them as a consideration for any kind of corporate environment.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by _asummers on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:38AM (#19085116)

If they were targeting themselves to that space, that would be an administrator toggle without question.

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Re:Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public by xnyan on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:12PM (#19087905)

Default Windows 10 comes with preinstalled video games, much less a store. Discord already has subscriptions, at some point I see them selling a version with enterprise features.

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