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by mechazawa 2859 days ago
Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment. Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.
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> Discord has a huge image problem. I won't touch it with a 10ft stick or even mention it in a professional environment.

Because it's aimed at gamers?

> Besides that it's very annoying that it's a complicated mess that has no real focus.

It's a chat and VOIP system, seems to do those both very well. Not exactly complicated.

It's also been latched onto by a lot of articles about the alt-right/Charlottesville, they were apparently using it for a while before they got banned there - and Discord have been subpoenad and things. Nothing that's Discord's fault (actually I don't think it's even encrypted?) but I can see why it'd get a bad look professionally based on that sort of coverage.
That is ridiculous. As you say they got banned. If them being on the platform annoys you that much didn't Discord do exactly what you wanted?
Cut them some slack.