[desireco42]

Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little.

I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipchat.

[wbond]

The Sublime Text community has adopted Discord as the predominant real-time chat platform. Initially I was skeptical, but it has worked out fairly well. IRC suffered from not being very accessible for many, and not having rich formatting nor history scroll back. It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does.

Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it has been serving the core group of contributors well.

[Ayey_]

The ReasonML group have done the same[1], and to great success IMO.

[1]: https://discord.gg/reasonml

[AFNobody]

> It is nice not to have the gated access like Slack does.

Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym.

So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.

[distantsounds]

your account name is not the same as your display name, which you can customize on a per-server basis. Also, signups are done via email. And your "username" is not unique by design, it gives you a numeric identity alongside it (much like how Blizzard's battle tags work).

[lewisl9029]

I wish you could also change your profile picture per-server. I'd like to be able to use the same account for work and play, and this is my only blocker.

[AFNobody]

The account was disabled immediately after registration.

[jhgg]

That doesn't sound right. Can you email me the email you signed up with? [e-mail]

We definitely don't have any rules that hard auto disable accounts.

[AFNobody]

If I have to say something on HN to get a response, the answer is No since I contacted Discord bout it when it originally happened. You can go find that email if you supposedly 'care' and reply to it.

Ah, you've changed it to say its an invalid email when I tried using the same service again. ;)

Also the original account is gone now so yay I guess? Someone went back and deleted instead of disabling them.

https://i.imgur.com/DMiTLfo.png

I'm guessing someone discovered the email service I used originally and disabled the account before I ever bothered to actually use it.

> We definitely don't have any rules that hard auto disable accounts.

You actively oppose privacy and block registration now instead of disabling them. I guess there was a policy change but (honestly) I don't care.

Y'all actively created rules in attempt to block average users from having some privacy on your platform.

[wbond]

I was under the impression anyone could join who had the server address?

[AFNobody]

I'm actually blocked for registering/banned during registration.

I literally cannot have a Discord account 'cause it'll just get disabled immediately.

[wbond]

Oh, I was referring to gated meaning you can't get in without being invited.

[eberkund]

Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack, it is a very similar product but I feel like by marketing it primarily to gamers they are positioning themselves in a far less profitable market than Slack is.

[j_s]

One major roadblock is there is no concept of separate identities managed under one login, or switching accounts easily. I think there is a half-way-there "server nickname" option new this year but it's not quite the same. The primary motivation for most is a clear separation between personal and professional.

https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-...

https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S...

Anecdata:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292

Some people consider this a positive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14093132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14089417

[pavel_lishin]

> Yeah honestly I don't see why it couldn't replace Slack

I see several reasons.

1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead.

2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.

[hellbanner]

You can hide muted channels.. then you don't see them

[pavel_lishin]

How?

[vitaflo]

Under the options for the server, select "Hide muted channels".

[sandGorgon]

Exactly - the permission structure is the single biggest problem. This will pretty much kill slack if they can build this in.

[robryan]

They would have got nowhere just being a slack clone going after the same businesses. In gaming there was a read pain point which they are addressing.

Services like Ventrilo, Teamspeak etc required a lot of setup/ self hosting and were only really strong for voice. Skype didn't organise well around how people game.

When I come back to WoW a few years ago a lot of people were trying to run groups on Skype which was a horrible experience of adding randoms and joining group calls, in additional to all the other downsides of Skype. Discord is a perfect replacement for that.

[forthefuture]

Its easier to get businesses to use Discord than to get gamers to use Slack.

[bpicolo]

Turns out 'free' is a good selling point

[SkyMarshal]

> Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little.

>... business setting ...

These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?