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by ifaxmycodetok8s 2083 days ago
If you're question is it a viable alternative to Slack for business purposes, the answer is no. And it's not bc of anything related to the application itself but because of the insane TOS.

> By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service.

https://discord.com/terms

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> in connection with operating and providing the Service

I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like a key limiting clause in that statement.

yeah agreed. but at the same time it seems just vague enough.
Are these licenses actually enforceable?

Those absolutely seem like overreach in terms of what someone would consider reasonable from a user perspective.

Regardless, I doubt any business wants to get in a position where their existence depends on a judge evaluating the license with their chat software.