After I used Discord in different contexts for months now (and Slack for years), I can't understand why someone willingly chooses Slack.
It's the Atlassian of chat tools. Horrible performance and bad usabillity.
It's the Atlassian of chat tools. Horrible performance and bad usabillity.
I am on multiple OSS Discord servers with thousands of users, and it works just fine most of the time.
I am on multiple Slack servers with just 10-20 users and it is unbearably slow.
Server-side scaling was only an issue with OSS communities and for hackathons, where >50k people were online.
Slack has a more mainstream look and feel which is probably one of the reasons it's preferred by companies.
There's no way that my company would adopt a platform so "fun" in the way Discord tries to be. Animated characters, a logo which looks like a gamepad, etc...
It sucks, because I use Slack for work and mostly Discord for personal use (mostly dev communities for different companies), and Discord is far and away a better experience. If Discord provided a "cleaned-up" offering for orgs like mine (finance), I think it would be an instant hit.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...
I guess it was great when it started out, but they're slowly boiling the frog, who is us.
https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/tree/f47559e68dfcc...
* https://zulipchat.com/integrations/communication * https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
We'll eventually add a more native way of connecting a stream between two Zulip servers; we just want to be sure we do that right; federation done sloppily is asking for a lot of spam/abuse problems down the line.
(I'm the Zulip lead developer)
Discord also doesn't let you set message retention that I'm aware of which is an immediate nonstarter.
End up in one lawsuit where the other party demands a fishing expedition and you'll be real happy that you've got retention limited to 90 days by policy and in practice.
Most need stuff going back at least a little bit. If I was talking to you about something on Friday and wanted to reference the conversation Monday I'd be real mad if the convo was already deleted.
In slack you can configure a retention period for files, messages, or both. Anything older than that gets wiped.
Other than that:
- shared channels between workspaces
- threads
- private messages within a workspace, instead of globally
- decoupled accounts from workspaces, so I can use my personal email and work email associated slack workspaces at the same time
- much tighter integration with third party tools eg zoom, webex, etc
Discord is great for casual chats with friends or open source communities. Insufficient for business.
I just don't understand why it's important for text based communication, but not voice.
Also the ability to draw on screen while screen sharing. So simple yet so useful.
I personally didn't like threads and this is the first time someone mentions them favorably.
Imagine how HackerNews, Reddit or any other discussion board would be without threading. Now, if you see a #general Slack room of a 100 person company, you'll quickly see that it would be a mess without threading. That's what happens in Discord.
The central value proposition is its reimagined UI, making threaded replies more visible and more interactive by separating conversation topics (threads) into different columns.
It’s currently just an MVP, but I expect to at least improve the UI and maybe rearchitect the system in the near future.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!