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

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by framecowbird on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:47AM (#26551827)

Could you expand on how it's better? Genuinely curious. I love Slack and tried Discord but found the UI pretty clunky, and the lack of threads annoying, but didn't probe it much further so I'm wondering if I'm missing something...

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by omnimus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:02AM (#26551909)

Well it has started has voice chat for gamers. Their latency and sound quality is top notch. You can have voice call with 5000 people. You can finetune sound of each individual. They have mass moderation tools... it surprises me with something in a good ways.

It feels like theyve nailed the technical part.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by IceWreck on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:08AM (#26551948)

> You can have voice call with 5000 people

Discord with a voice call of > 50 people really starts cracking about and it just isn't usable. audio quality goes way down.

Not sure how you got the 5000 number.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by whatbutwhy on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:57AM (#26552252)

I've personally been in voice calls on discord with thousands of people. Obviously it's impossible to pick out anything discernable with that many people but discord handles it well.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by torbital on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:53PM (#26562653)

FWIW, I probably hate Slack more than anyone else on Hackernews (because everyone somehow seems to like it). Keep in mind I also don't use the Slack desktop app but I do use the Discord desktop app, so right away this isn't a fair comparison but I'll continue with my rant anyway.

I mainly just find the user-experience to be terrible. I hate how each server is separated as if it is it's own isolated website or something. On Discord, I can switch from server to server in a click easily.

Playing GTA? I can join the GTA Discord server. Playing League? I can join that one. It's all right there.

It's also the weird SSO Slack has going on that just seems broken. When I open up Discord, I have one account, I log in and have access to all other things in the account. Basic software behavior we're all used to.

When I open up Slack, it does or does not want me to login again based on if I've been on this server before. It may or may not want me to make a new account depending on if I've made one on this server before. I try all of my emails with all of my potential passwords to see if login works, if not new account time I guess? I'm never sure weather to use my work account or not. Sometimes the @domain matters, so this creates even more of a mess.

Then don't even get me started with a lack of usernames and having intentionally hard-to-find ID. Again, why not do what Discord does and do Username#6789? Instead I have to search my friend 'John Doe' and hope it's the John I'm thinking of and not some random other John that I just invited to see all my business's internal discussions.

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