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

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by madeofpalk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:20AM (#26555334)

The whole channel model is radically different, with Discord having terrible defaults (for any use case imho, but definitely for companies). Discord and Slack are superficially similar, but it breaks down once you get down into the details. Discord is built around having a larger 'untrusted' community, whereas Slack is built for employees at a company who are trusted that little bit more.

You cannot leave a channel in Discord, and by default it will notify you of every message sent in every channel on the server. The best you can do is mute a channel and select 'Hide muted channels'.

Discord has far superior voice comms - in both quality and features (Voice Channels are great), and then there's the whole "roles" system.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:32AM (#26565131)

IMO you vastly overestimate the corporate use case.

In my experience in places where Slack was settled on as a corporate messaging solution the three questions asked (in order of importance) were

  * "Does it support custom animated emoji"?
  * "Does it have website and document previews"?
  * "Can I send my notifications to it"?

(It's silly but that's how it is.)

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by madeofpalk on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:26AM (#26565797)

I still think Discord doesn't make sense or is very good in a corporate setting.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:33PM (#26569455)

Out of the box it doesn't, but it's 99% of the way there.

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