• IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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        1 month ago

        It isn’t even a decade old… anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.

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          1 month ago

          It is the LEAST intuitive UI of any popular app I’ve ever seen. I was recently trying to join a channel from a website that required a code to input, and absolutely couldn’t get it to work.

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        1 month ago

        clearly people like it

        It’s the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.

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        1 month ago

        Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.

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        1 month ago

        From a functional perspective it’s fantastic but it doesn’t make up for the incessant ads (even if you pay) and the lack of any privacy whatsoever.

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      1 month ago

      This is them going into IPO mode.

      Matrix is a reasonable replacement.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!

        … For the pilot.

        Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!

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          The comeback. I paid for a teamsorak server when I was a teen and used it extensively with friends for many years. As I got older I have only used discord a handful of times to talk to other people already on that platform. Discord has always sucked Imo, if it’s free you’re the product. That’s how it always has been.

          I hope it gets even more shit so people will leave the platform.

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          1 month ago

          how come?

          (currently dont have the energy to look into replacing that too with all the other services im already in transition)

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            UI/UX is just miserable at times, sometimes the client crashes if you’ve seen too many image/videos. The account creation and device pairing is jank as hell, took me more than 15 min to pair a new because the verification kept failing. Just overall i can bear with the jankiness but if i was an average user, I’d quit.

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        1 month ago

        Welcome to Discord, brought to you by Logan Paul x KSI’s PRIME!

        drink verification can to log in

        Thanks user!

        We’ve recently switched all Nitro and Custom Emoji payment tiers over to $sheetcuyhn, click here to set up your payment plan!

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            1 month ago

            Close!

            I used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn’t even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.

            After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak…

            I left for greener pastures.

            (not Discord lol. did contract db admin type work for MSFT for a bit, then said executive reports for a massive import export firm… then nonprofits, serving the homeless)

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      1 month ago

      We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?

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      1 month ago

      Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don’t understand the problem why people dont use it

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        1 month ago

        You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.

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          We need fast voice chat though, i play tournaments for cs2 and apex legends. Haven’t tested jitsi speed yet vs ts3 or mumble, which was the main reason we never used discord to start with

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            I must admit I’ve never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.