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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by munk-a on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:05PM (#26878345)
I don't think they got overconfident at all - I think that slack was relatively well built but lacking too much of a value proposition to differentiate themselves. Then they got acquired before anyone realized how much of their usage was marketing driven and how little was driven by the quality of their application.

I'm not saying it's bad by any means - in fact the search functionality is pretty sweet... but there is very little there that couldn't be out competed.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by mdoms on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:27PM (#26880117)
> I don't think they got overconfident at all

https://slack.com/intl/en-nz/blog/news/dear-microsoft

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by richie5um on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:28PM (#26878871)
Agree. They came out of the gates with a really well put together chat app, that made a massive impact. Then, basically, didn’t advance it beyond that. It is still great for chat, but Teams is sooo much more useful for the virtual office, and discord waaay better for social. Slack is in an ever decreasing middle zone.
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