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by SubNoize 3054 days ago
How do they communicate when placed Infront of a computer? I see the appeal of snap with the younger crowd but the fact that it lives in a phone seems like a major con, sure it's easily fixed by allowing browser access. As someone who grew up on MSN & ICQ I couldn't imagine having to stop what I'm doing to pick up my phone every time I want to message someone.
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carlivar 3054 days ago
Phone is a computer. Just not the interface or size we old fogeys prefer.
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verall 3053 days ago
I would say "computer people" ie spend a significant portion of their time on a computer with a physical qwerty keyboard tend to use FB messenger to chat or discord if they play games.

My preference is probably steam chat. The new signal desktop is a dumpster fire.

Most people in my age group simply don't spend very much time in front of a computer. Their phone is their portal to the internet and has generally everything they're looking for.

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stochastic_monk 3054 days ago
I know a lot of kids in their 20s who like Discord.

Slack is much better, but Discord sunk its teeth into the gaming community and it spread.

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verall 3053 days ago
IMO discord is way better.

Pretty interface, easy to use, voice is pretty low latency (although I miss my mumble server), and it uses ~80mb of ram to sit in like 5 groups, which while not fantastic blows "rather open it in chrome" slack out of the water.

New signal desktop instantly uses 200mb and has to "loading messages" for 3s every single startup :(

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stochastic_monk 3053 days ago
It's not buggy for you? The tab on the left is always glitching out on me, and things just simply don't work like they should, whether I'm using Firefox or Chrome. It incorrectly says "<so and so> is typing..." when the person is typing in a different subchat.

On the whole, for a product proudly marketing itself as a Slack replacement, it does a terrible job actually providing the same functionality.

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ubercow13 3054 days ago
In what way is Slack better?
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stochastic_monk 3054 days ago
It just always works for me, and I've run into all sorts of annoying cases where Discord doesn't do what it's supposed to, especially in the browser.

Slack's extra features and integrations are nice, too, but I just don't like Discord because it... doesn't even work as advertised.

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