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Comment by Sir_Cmpwn | Hacker News Reader

Join the Discord channel? Discord is a proprietary chat platform for video games with no Linux client. Really?

This is likely because React moved to Discord too after Slack did not want to bump up their maximum user limit: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/10/19/reactiflux-...

If only there was some open protocol to support large scale group chat.

yes! with an open protocol and lightweight servers. Let's make one and call it Instantaneous React Chat.

There's a web interface. It's no worse than having a Slack channel.

Slack supports IRC and XMPP so it's at least mildly worse.

Having a Slack channel is no better.

Discord doesn't have search. That's a non-trivial issue.

The "Reactiflux" community sent enough messages as to make search on Slack's free plan effectively useless (since old messages would expire within minutes or hours). I understand that Discord plans to add search.

Does Discord have a limit to how many messages they store?

Are they obliged to support platforms they don't care for?

Incidentally, why do people prefer native apps instead of browser based on the desktop?

Is it because the tab is hard to find on the browser...or is there a specific advantage to the native client?

I find it jarring when people use desktop clients over browser...especially when it is very likely that most of the engineering teams at these startups are most likely web based. Don't the desktop apps lag in features behind their web interfaces?

In the case of Discord, the desktop app is an Electron wrapper around the web app with additional native features. For example, the native client adds better voice support (i.e. push to talk w/o needing browser focus), native notifications and an in-game overlay.

I wonder if an ARC'd APK of the Android in Chromium would work for you.

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