[Animats]

Discord privacy policy:

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, we may conduct research on our customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the information collected. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

For example, they could do sentiment analysis on corporate chat, track it over time, and see which companies show patterns indicating trouble. Then they could short the stock, buy put options, or suggest to their "current and prospective business partners" that low-ball acquisition offer would be appropriate.

[mapcars]

Is discord known to be used in corporate sector? I think so far it's dominated by Slack and Discord is mostly used by games/communities.

[duskwuff]

I'm sure there are some businesses using Discord, but they aren't the target audience. The branding and feature set of Discord all make it very clear that it's targeted at PC gamers.

[uncle_j]

There are a lot of smaller open source projects that are using Discord instead of IRC. I am a member of Reshade, C# OpenTK and general programming servers.

[rawfan]

I actually know many opensource projects that moved from the clunkyness of Slack to Discord.

In all fairness, though, the recent releases of Slack made it pretty snappy.

[munmaek]

My 70 kb/s connection disagrees. I was barely able to get slack to load, when it did load.

[uncle_j]

I work in an office with poor reception and it is quite annoying that these apps don't really work unless you are on 3G or better.

[smolder]

I know political campaigns are using it... foolishly, I'd say.