[d3nj4l]

> Recently, they replaced the fun, gamery loading messages with something more "formal". Now it does it's one thing slightly less well. The first of many casualties, no doubt.

This is funny because my impression was that Discord users by and large hated those messages.

[blackearl]

I'm definitely in the camp of "don't patronize me with being a 'silly' corporation". I don't believe you, you're trying to make money, trying to be pals with me grosses me out.

[meowface]

Yeah. As the kids say, it's "peak cringe".

[Sohcahtoa82]

totes cringe fam

yeet that shit outta here

[gchamonlive]

They should just have a separate platform mode.

Like Discord Businesses. Discord B8s.

[rchaud]

They should use a different name then, because "discord" doesn't exactly conjure up images of handshakes and smiling people sitting in meeting rooms in stock photos.

[cultofmetatron]

ahem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

[sigstoat]

Slack seems to be doing fine, and its name hardly sounds like some pro-business virtue.

[rchaud]

"Slack" is also a common term in supply chain and project management.

[mattl]

Bizcord

[jizzlepizzle]

Discord 365 For Business(tm)

[dhagz]

Not enough Enterprise or cloud in the name, I don't know that I can get enough buy-in as-is.

[IgorPartola]

And also have a cryptocurrency called Discoin because are you even a business without your own crypto in 2021?

[grey413]

Concord, obviously

[anthony_r]

Discord B8s = Discord Baits?

You're trying to pull a YouTube Red here?

[Sohcahtoa82]

Nah, just the trend of the first letter + number of middle letters + last letter abbreviation scheme, like K8s for Kubernetes, and i18n for internationalization.

B8s = Business

...except then it would be B6s...unless the parent meant "Discord Businesses"?

Now I don't even know.

[anthony_r]

B - eight - s

[gchamonlive]

Exactly :D

[rb666]

You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.

[nkrisc]

Funny is relative. Personally, there was nothing humorous about those messages. I know they were trying to be funny, but it was about as funny as knock knock, who’s there?, banana!

I like humor. Humor that, you know, is funny.

[mickael-kerjean]

On my open source project (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash), there's a nyan cat that move around whenever the app takes more than 1s to load. I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it

To see the nyan cat moving around your screen, you got to throttle the bandwidth: https://demo.filestash.app/

[detaro]

So you have your first "feature" for the "Filestash for Corporations" plan ;)

[hvis]

> I had quite a few companies contacting me to get rid of it

Did you quote them your business rates?

[rexreed]

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

[mb321]

Humour is subjective, and whether you found them funny or not didn't really matter. They were just stupid little jokes for you to read while Discord is doing something.

Perfectly harmless, and adds a bit of charm to the app.

[nkrisc]

Harmless, sure. Charming? I don’t think so, but that’s just me.

[mumblemumble]

There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person.

It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.

[watwut]

The person you are responding to did not denigrated anything.

He responded to claim that if someone does not like those messages, then he "take himself too seriously". The response simple explained that author find those jokes unfunny.

As you said, humor varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person. That implies that not liking some kind of humor is completely valid sentiment.

[mumblemumble]

There's a difference, though, between simply not liking some kind of humor, and publicly making fun of it.

I generally think that this advice is over-simplistic, but this tends to be a situation where the, "If you can't say anything nice, just don't say anything," principle really is a good rule of thumb.

It's perhaps even worse if you try to make your criticism amusing. Scalzi has a good explanation of why: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-...

[watwut]

If you insult someone for not liking the humor, it fair play from them to make fun of you back. And that comment was not making fun, it was expressing how that humor comes off.

Because what you want here is one sided "one side get to insult the other, but other is expected to not even express their opinion."

[lijogdfljk]

I agree with you. I like Discord, but the messages felt very forced. "Hello fellow kids" style. Forced fun, if you will. I loathe forced fun. heh

[daveoc64]

Agreed.

I personally found them to be like "wow, look how hip we are young children".

[plainnoodles]

I'll throw in my 2c and say that I thought they were just fine. I wasn't verbally guffawing at their Sims-esque loading humor but the first time I saw it I thought "oh heh they're doing the sims thing" and then literally never thought overmuch about it again.

[hnlmorg]

I really don't take myself seriously at all but I find such things in software more annoying than humorous because it's distracting (the reason for me was because I have to reprogram my behaviour to ignore said loading messages rather than view them as actionable items). Streamlabs is another with stupid loading messages. Such things aren't annoying enough to stop me using their software but it certainly not something I get kick out of seeing.

I'd also add festival themed icons too. The whole VSCode trolling a few years back might have been overblown but the end result was for the better imo. I find it distracting having seasonal icons and the fewer distractions I can find in my productivity tools the better.

[chrisseaton]

Clever humour at the right time is great. A dumb message while I'm trying to get on with my work or hobby isn't good humour or at the right time.

[AllegedAlec]

Yeah. It always falls flat for me, like the "Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" messages you get when some web pages break down.

[skhr0680]

A lot of times when apps try to be cute I wish they would just STFU and do the thing I want them to

[kemotep]

The Windows 10 new user setup screen and also the frowny face crash screen come to mind.

[christophilus]

> A lot of times

Every time. FTFY.

[lynndotpy]

This was my impression as well.

By coincidence, I recently stumbled upon this 'Discord for Business' support post from 2018 (https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600302...) that generated almost 200 upvotes and 100 comments. I

The post starts as follows:

> My company is presently evaluating alternatives to Slack internally. Turns out, Discord is one of the most feature rich alternatives, with a relatively smooth UI and voice/video/screenshare capability. I couldn't even get half of about 10 people on the testing committee to try it.

> The reasons:

> -The logo in the tray is a video game controller

> -The home screen shows a listing of games

> -The chat bot addressed a female employee when she joined as "love"

> -Touchpoint emails aren't asking for feedback, they're talking about the journey for users to share gaming experiences

> Except the third one above, none of these are "bad" per se. And the product is really solid. There's a market there that could certainly use it as is, but perhaps an even bigger (and more lucrative one) that will be turned off to the current state. We're not moving forward with Discord because we don't feel it really has us as a high value audience. But some tweaks to modify the UI/UX to meet these differing needs based on license type may be worth exploring.

[k12sosse]

Did you look into Microsoft Teams at all? Just wondering if you have a comparison to Discord. At work, I've called MS Teams "Discord for business" because to me, a long term discord user, Teams development feels very "made by people who love Discord".

[musicale]

Teams has better Office apps, and better integration with Microsoft things. It's also clunky and buggy.

Discord, while lacking the app and file features, is much better in terms of what it actually does. It's almost enough to make me not hate Electron (?)

[petre]

Not using Discord but I always compile my pure-ftpd with the --without-humor and --with-boring flags. Funny is relative.