[Spivak]

Good lord Discord is gonna eat the world without anyone ever noticing. They somehow managed to make a service that was social network, app delivery platform, group chat, community forums, Tumblr, Reddit, Vent/Mumble, internet radio, customer support channel, Twitch, Spotify group sessions, IRC, and now Patreon.

It's so unbelievably slick and well architected and god so freaking fast. Slack has got to be quaking in the boots at this point, the bots on Discord put Slack to shame and the market is realizing it with services pushing Discord integrations before Slack.

It took me all of four hours to have a bot up and running that could record all my friends' Spotify history and recommend stuff to them, control my lights, respond to gpt prompts, get build notifications from Gitlab, share my friendgroup Wi-Fi passwords, get Prometheus alerts with working buttons to ack/silence/chatops.

[Karunamon]

All they need are slightly better admin controls, SSO, and a switch to disable anything "fun" in the client (maybe settable via a group policy if there feeling froggy), and Slack has literally nothing to offer.

This is a relatively trivial amount of engineering work to have feature parity

[clnq]

Slack does feel like slower Discord with fun disabled.