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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by hu3 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:06AM (#26552305)
You seem to think Discord can be recreated by throwing people and money at the problem.

History shows it cannot. Discord is on another league in terms of technical and usability excellence when compared to competition.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by Supermancho on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:20PM (#26556801)
History shows that Large Companies tend to fail when recreating products because of internal politics and initiatives (outside of the core goal), not because they physically can't.
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