[ilikehurdles]

I do not trust Discord on data privacy.

It's not just the target market being the gamer crowd, its focus on promoting gaming content is beyond distracting for a work setting.

Take its font-and-center features:

- The primary page with all the game and stream ads has zero value for productivity.

- Its voice chat is great but not nearly as valuable as a video meeting integration.

- I don't need or want to know what application or game you have open right now or what music you're listening to. I just want to know if you're available right now or if not, when you will be.

Integrations, emphasized. Adding a swath of app integrations was a "wow" factor when Slack first came on the scene, and I've had very little trouble introducing Slack at organizations with minimal IT resources because of this. Setting up and maintaining webhooks is "too much" for a lot of people who can otherwise manage a Slack org.

[giggles_giggles]

I don't see why Slack would be more trustworthy than Discord when it comes to data privacy, when we're talking about a company that failed to disclose a breach for 5 years.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/slack-password-breach/

If you care about your data, you have to be able to own it, and neither Slack nor Discord offers that option.