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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by ormax3 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:10AM (#26551014)
since Discord is very popular in the gaming world, one can only wonder what the future would bring seeing how another acquisition of Microsoft in this space ended, namely Mixer (Twitch-like service).
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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by freeflight on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:41AM (#26551203)
Mixer never dominated its field, it was one of many smaller competitors trying to take on Twitch but was never really that popular.

While Discord is like the Twitch of its market: The most popular choice and with their specific feature set they don't even have any real competition.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by Macha on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:15AM (#26553625)
Skype was the previous home of many of the communities that were the early adopters of discord, and they left after years of MS running the show, which seems like a better comparison to me
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