I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipchat.
Granted, I don’t think we’ve got more than a couple of hundred users on our Discord server, but it has been serving the core group of contributors well.
Fyi, it is gated by Discord and (for instance) I'm unable to create an account under this psuedonym.
So, I (personally) will never use Discord as they locked my account when I attempted to create one.
I literally cannot have a Discord account 'cause it'll just get disabled immediately.
We definitely don't have any rules that hard auto disable accounts.
Ah, you've changed it to say its an invalid email when I tried using the same service again. ;)
Also the original account is gone now so yay I guess? Someone went back and deleted instead of disabling them.
https://i.imgur.com/DMiTLfo.png
I'm guessing someone discovered the email service I used originally and disabled the account before I ever bothered to actually use it.
> We definitely don't have any rules that hard auto disable accounts.
You actively oppose privacy and block registration now instead of disabling them. I guess there was a policy change but (honestly) I don't care.
Y'all actively created rules in attempt to block average users from having some privacy on your platform.
It's a bit like being concerned about gmail requiring your real name to sign up. I mean, yeah, but, what?
FWIW I signed up years ago and never received a single email from them outside of the initial signup one and any I requested.
Lol. :)
A) Its the principle of the thing.
B) I can get around the disposable email block with a disposable email quite easily. Its more the fact they got rid of the original account that pissed me off.
C) I change online screen names somewhat frequently to cut off the occasional mentally unstable person who tries to work around a service's block feature.
D) Discord makes a ton of privacy claims that are dishonest in the sense that they are actively trying to block anonymity which would allow those claims to be true.
But Discord isn't blocking "anonymity", they're blocking disposable email addresses (low-hanging fruit spam). They don't ask for your name and, whatever email you give it, doesn't have to be tied to your name.
It's a bit like blocking Tor. Websites don't block Tor because they hate privacy, they block Tor because it's a spammer's tool of choice.
> It's a bit like blocking Tor. Websites don't block Tor because they hate privacy, they block Tor because it's a spammer's tool of choice.
And yet, I somehow can do it without either of these measures. So can Reddit and Matrix and a bunch of other services.
We must some sort of amazing super genius. /s
This falls under "beliefs you have", not facts.
It's not a belief, it's an area I'm interested in, and I've talked to a lot of people about it. I've never found anyone block cloudflare (or disposable emails) because they "hate privacy".
Its a false argument whose only real value is admitting "Well, we are unwilling to hire the people with the technical knowledge to be effective at anti-spam without such measures."
> It's not a belief, it's an area I'm interested in, and I've talked to a lot of people about it. I've never found anyone block cloudflare (or disposable emails) because they "hate privacy".
Yup. I must be so high on drugs I'm hallucinating every place I've ever worked at and every hobby project that has allowed UGC. (Hint: Literally all of them involved UGC with attempts to defraud and spam.)
It is a _belief_ that such measures are technically necessary and effective.
I mean, if you really think you are right, it is impossible to do this thing, and I get around to building a site for the sole purpose of proving you wrong...how much would you pay me?
Honest feedback: You need to take a look at how this conversation went down and if you're happy with projecting this attitude you have onto the world.
The fact you persisted this long without making that claim makes me question the veracity of that statement.
> All I said is that when websites block cloudflare, it's usually because of spam and attackers.
I'm just quoting that out of incredulity at the statement.
I never said anything about Discord blocking Cloudflare.
> Honest feedback: You need to take a look at how this conversation went down and if you're happy with projecting this attitude you have onto the world.
I am happy.
People who try to argue about how terribly misunderstood corporations are never enjoy talking to me. The same is true for people who attempt to correct me on the basis of their opinions that aren't rooted in factual necessity.
I don't need to have a positive interaction with someone who tries to starts an argument with me over how my worldview is wrong because of their personal opinion on how the world should work.
My beliefs aren't going to change just because you feel your opinion is validated by niche popularity. Niche popularity got Trump elected lol. That isn't the sort of thing you want to base your views on if you have the self-confidence to realize that _sometimes_ the majority view is wrong and something needs to be said.
> I never said anything about Discord blocking Cloudflare.
It's the same thing wrt blocking disposable emails.
You know why I told you to review that conversation? Because you are so dead set on viewing me as someone who is wrong that you haven't even considered that I agree with you. All I tried to do was give you some perspective but that's apparently as futile as talking to a 2D plane.
I see several reasons.
1. It's impossible to not be in a public channel. Yes, you can mute it, but you can't ever leave it. In a large company with thousands of channels, this creates cognitive overhead.
2. You can create private channels, but this requires the ability to assign permissions. This has two problems - one, if you have a lot of teams that need to have private rooms you're going to spend a lot of time juggling permissions, and two, if you need a quick ad-hoc room that you don't want littering the general list, you need to be able to assign permissions.
https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-...
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S...
Anecdata:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14870899
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14865292
Some people consider this a positive.
Services like Ventrilo, Teamspeak etc required a lot of setup/ self hosting and were only really strong for voice. Skype didn't organise well around how people game.
When I come back to WoW a few years ago a lot of people were trying to run groups on Skype which was a horrible experience of adding randoms and joining group calls, in additional to all the other downsides of Skype. Discord is a perfect replacement for that.
>... business setting ...
These two things don't seem to go together, maybe that's why it is not used more in business?