Ask HN: Anyone using Discord in a business setting?

4 points·garettmd··9 comments

I've been using it lately for communicating with some open source projects, and it seems like a pretty good competitor to Slack, with a few more features even. But I haven't heard of anyone using it in business; was wondering if that's due to some functionality or SLA type of thing, or just lack of awareness.

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that seems unwise.

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.

holy shit.

Is that verbatim from the ToS?

yes.

https://discordapp.com/terms

Damn, I guess that pretty much disqualifies it for use in any business venture

It's a pretty standard term, and is generally in place to avoid them being accused of copyright infringement for giving access to your messages to other people in your organisation.

A client who is in a field vaguely related to gaming has mentioned we could use discord (I'd never heard of it before) instead of Skype for calls/chat.

Given how much Skype has failed lately, it might be a good option to try.

Anyone know of the mac app is a proper app and not just an electron hobgoblin?

Welp, despite this claim:

> Minimal CPU Usage

It appears that it's Electron. So much for that plan.

It may be electron but it's super smooth. It feels more native than Slack on my mac

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