Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by ivraatiems on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:35PM (#26879024)

Better than being a hellscape in 6 months-2 years due to forced integration with Teams.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by Ombudsman on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:54PM (#26879477)

I think Microsoft is smarter than that, look at Github for example, people have largely forgotten it's owned by MSFT. They would have left Discord as a gaming platform and used it's tech in Teams instead. Teams is so behind Discord in all areas except video quality.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by selimthegrim on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:30PM (#26880170)

Has there been an exodus of talent from Github if they are leveling salaries?

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by Rapzid on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:06PM (#26881682)

Probably an influx of talent. They suddenly started shipping stuff after the acquisition..

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by selimthegrim on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:33PM (#26884790)

I wonder if that extends to their data org...

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by sascha_sl on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:13PM (#26881782)

Very poorly polished stuff, to be honest. Before, they always seemed to take great care in making their core product (and the API for it) great. The only thing I can think of that was similarly unpolished was GitHub Enterprise.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by adflux on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:20PM (#26879989)

What fields are that exactly?

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by russellendicott on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:38PM (#26880293)

Teams chat is awful:

- Trying to figure out how to do code snippets and inline code is madness.

- You can't copy and paste whole conversations.

- Integrations/bots are awful and make you realize the whole thing is built on some ancient Sharepoint SOAP API.

- Mobile app on Android whacks out frequently and has to do the blinky reload chat 19 times before the screen settles down.

A lot of my other gripes are probably due to enterprise issues but I'll mention them anyway:

- Can't create my own channels.

- can't be on my company Teams on a call and switch to Microsoft's server to talk to a TAM without dropping the call.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by sascha_sl on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:09PM (#26881723)

I don't think GitHub staff has forgotten. Actions are straight up Azure Pipelines. The code is a huge mess. If I didn't know better I'd say it's obscured by design. Check out the actions/runner repo if you don't believe me. They polished them very well for the hosted version, but the cracks show if you try to use the self-hosted version.

I can't believe anyone at GitHub is particularly thrilled about having a Microsoft technology that broken imposed on them.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by shagie on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:16PM (#26879906)

My tea leaf reading suggests that it would have been a closer interaction to Xbox and gaming than Teams and corporate.

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Re:Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft by spondyl on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:39PM (#26880322)

Can I just say, while I believe Discord will die anyway if it IPOs (as with anything that believes in infinite scaling), I would have loved to see Microsoft enact the special fucked up kind of integration that only they can manage

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