[scrollaway]

We use Discord for all communications at my company, including now our video chats. We are fully remote and Discord is so much better than Hangouts it's not even funny.

I've also transferred all my skype and hangouts contact lists into Discord. It's a lovely tool, lock in be damned.

[ngrilly]

About your usage of Discord, do you miss the following features ?

- replies/threads (where you can reply to a specific message)

- star/flag messages (to retrieve them later)

- unable to set font size in the mobile app (the font size is too small for most people)

[dleslie]

Slack threads are... terrible.

Let's just add another layer of indirection, and a layer of depth to the streams of information you manage!

Ugh.

[ngrilly]

I agree about the drawbacks of threads as "another layer of indirection".

But if you don't have threads, and the number of participants in the same chat room grows, how do you manage the intertwining of messages belonging to different subjects?

[dleslie]

More channels

[ngrilly]

Yes, but as far as I know, only admins can create a new channel on Discord. If you want to continue a discussion on a specific topic in a dedicated group, then you have to ask an admin?

[dleslie]

Sounds like a severe limitation of discord :)

[dleslie]

How is Discord on Linux?

[scrollaway]

Excellent, save screenshare which is currently broken on the Discord desktop client (but works fine in web browser). I use Linux exclusively, I wouldn't be propping discord up if it weren't :)

[solidr53]

Its built with electron, so identical besides maybe font rendering etc.

[dylz]

Mostly the same, since every client is a chromium wrapper for a web page.