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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by Washuu on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:57PM (#25271699)
Twitch already purchased Curse Voice about four years ago and renamed it to the Twitch Desktop application. It was what Discord is now before Discord existed. That was already a losing battle when Twitch made the purchase though so they ended up stripping out all of those features. It would have made more sense for them to buy Discord back then.

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/Ending-Support-for-Voice-Ch...

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by reificator on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @08:25PM (#25272260)
> Twitch already purchased Curse Voice about four years ago and renamed it to the Twitch Desktop application. It was what Discord is now before Discord existed.

Curse Voice released in June 2015. Discord released in May 2015.

At best you could fudge the numbers and claim that Discord and Curse came out at the same time. A claim that Curse Voice was anything before Discord existed is flat out false.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by Washuu on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:35PM (#25273298)
Curse Voice actually released in early 2014[1][2]. I remember mainly because that year is burned into my memory from the CTO at the time snapping his fingers non-stop into microphones testing noise/echo cancellation and latency.

[1] https://www.player.one/curse-voice-vc-funded-skype-gamers-be...

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2014/06/17/curse-gets-a-million-game...

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