Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
by hardwaregeek on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:44PM
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That's true, but it doesn't change the user story going from "I click a link, I join the workspace" to "I click a link, I fill out yet another registration form, decide which email to use, add another password to my password safe, then join the workspace". Minor differences but friction does matter.
Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
by hyperhopper on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:12AM
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To add onto this, you also have no cross platform user consistency, so if I DM a user, if I want to search my DMs there, I might have to search my DMs in 10+ servers for the specific message I want. There are a million other problems with this model but this example is definitely one that I frequently ran into before people I knew switched to discord
1) They send magic links. Pretty easy.
2) They make all known workspaces you've logged into before discoverable and allow for a one-click "add to desktop Slack" option, which makes dealing with the whole "different users" issue. And to the extent that I use different emails for different workspaces, Slack accommodates that and allows me to do so within the same desktop instance, so not really sure what the concern is there.