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by joshstrange 1985 days ago
> I think the big things that prevent it from being adopted more for professional use is the lack of a threading model

They do have a threading model now (if you are talking about replying to a message in a channel and having your reply clearly show what you are responding to). If you are talking about 1-on-1 chats with other people in your same server then yes, that is still lacking IMHO in discord. The whole "you have to be friends" to start a chat (or maybe that's just for a on-the-fly group) is annoying.
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013a 1984 days ago
Discord gives every user an identity that is persistent beyond the server; you have a Discord account, not a server account. Slack does the opposite. Enterprises would hate Discord's model, as they prefer to control the entire identity of every user in their systems, such that when they leave the company they can destroy any notion of that identity ever existing.
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joshstrange 1984 days ago
Absolutely agree. I like the 1 main discord account but I wish I could have 1 "identity" per-server as well. I don't love that I am in some discords that I don't want tied to my real name and others where I've known these people for over a decade and would see in person multiple times a week (before the pandemic). I know you can set your name per-server but you can't hide your discord username (or make it per-server) which sucks.
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