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Calling workspaces for servers is actually a bit of an “aha”-moment for me.

I’ve found slack super confusing and counter-intuitive in how Cumbersome it is to log in to my workspaces on, for example, my phone. This is because I don’t have a slack account but multiple accounts - one for each workspace and all of them connected to the same email (so for me as a user they’re the same account. come on - Why do I have to sign up every time?)

The UI around this has improved tremendously over the last 6 months, but it is still not great.

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Oh man, I HATE that discord ties everything to the same email. I have personal discords, work discords, side project-based discords, and community discords.

I want different handles for them, I want DMs to be grouped by discord - not into a single giant bucket, I want notification emails to go to different emails.

The biggest blocker to me enjoying discord is that it assumes I'm the same person across all the groups.

While a perfectly good point, it's also why it caught on. You log in once. Now you just click "Join" on servers you want.

Like how Reddit spares you from registering for 100 forums.

I use Ripcord[0] on my desktop/laptop, a Discord client which provides easy switching between accounts. It's lightweight and supports slack, too.

[0] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

>Not made from a web browser

That gave me a chuckle

FWIW you can have different handles in each Discord Server, it's under right click on the server icon > Change Nickname. Seems to affect mentions also (something that didn't until recently IIRC), so your original usertag should be completely invisible.

The only thing though I found out not possible to customize per server is the avatar picture, for some reason. But I already use the same for personal and professional communications so it didn't bother me too much.

> FWIW you can have different handles in each Discord Server, it's under right click on the server icon > Change Nickname. Seems to affect mentions also (something that didn't until recently IIRC), so your original usertag should be completely invisible.

Nope. The different handle on a server is there for other people's benefit, not for yours. Anyone who sends you a direct message will see your actual Discord handle.

I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.

> I can't fathom why it's implemented this way, but it is.

I would hazard a guess that it's because the vast majority of people want a single login for a single app.

I know I certainly prefer the discord one account many servers approach over the slack one server one logon.

Obviously the 1:1 relationship makes sense for slack as it's targeted at businesses, a lot of whom use a centralised user directory of some kind (SSO/LDAP etc...) but having to create a new user/pass to join every discord server would get old very fast.

What is the connection between having a single login and disclosing a username to someone you've gone out of your way to hide it from?

There isn't one.

It's a nickname, not a feature to hide your account name.

You can use PTB(public test branch) as an alt, or Franz or Web for more than 3 accounts, though it’s a workaround than a solution, and neural noise suppression also don’t work for non-official clients.

And I hate how Slack doesn't group everything.

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