Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by wayneftw on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:33PM (#26550778)

If they start requiring a Microsoft account to sign in like they did with Mixer then I know a bunch of people will be out, including me.

If they treat it like GitHub and let it be it's own thing then maybe I'll stick around. I doubt they're going to treat it like that though because they don't treat gamers like they do devs.

Maybe now's a good time for somebody to start building an alternative.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by fragileone on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:21AM (#26553224)

There already is an alternative which HN loves https://element.io/ https://matrix.org/

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by etempleton on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:48PM (#26550869)

I wonder. You are right, they would probably force accounts become Microsoft accounts at some point.

I think there is also going to be higher public expectations of moderating and monitoring of what is discussed on Discord if Microsoft owns them. That may not be a headache that Microsoft even wants to deal with.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by shermablanca on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:57AM (#26551290)

There is an alternative, and it's quite good. https://www.guilded.gg/

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by techdragon on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:03AM (#26551917)

The issue is that we are entering a phase where secondary services are adding value on top of discord. Things like Patreon integration for content creators, numerous service specific bots and a growing number of VOIP related integrations (for example https://craig.chat/home/) make it harder to consider alternatives as replacements.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by 0xFF0123 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:22AM (#26553227)

They haven't messed with Mojang / Minecraft too heavily (or altered the login flow)

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by joelellis on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:36AM (#26553326)

> or altered the login flow

Mojang recently announced that all mojang.com accounts would be migrated to Microsoft accounts. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/mojang-account-move

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