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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by IceWreck on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:15AM (#26551990)
Theyve already solved the engineering part with Microsoft Teams. Even the UX is similar. If they wanted to make a discord alternative, they'd just repaint MS Teams to have a more gamer-like UI.

These 10 billion are for the userbase alone.

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by Felk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:38AM (#26552127)
Are you talking about their backend tech specifically? Because the MS Teams frontend is lacking far behind Discord in terms of polish. It has 5% of the features and already performs like a bloated mess. It's hard to tell how robust their backend tech is but given that opening new voice channels takes 5-10 seconds, or that they had to update the client to have more inaccurate online statuses to fix backend performance issues does not give me much confidence either.