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by stochastic_monk 3058 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 3058 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 3058 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 3058 days ago
In what way is Slack better?
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stochastic_monk 3058 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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