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If they start requiring a Microsoft account to sign in like they did with Mixer then I know a bunch of people will be out, including me.

If they treat it like GitHub and let it be it's own thing then maybe I'll stick around. I doubt they're going to treat it like that though because they don't treat gamers like they do devs.

Maybe now's a good time for somebody to start building an alternative.

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There already is an alternative which HN loves https://element.io/ https://matrix.org/

I wonder. You are right, they would probably force accounts become Microsoft accounts at some point.

I think there is also going to be higher public expectations of moderating and monitoring of what is discussed on Discord if Microsoft owns them. That may not be a headache that Microsoft even wants to deal with.

There is an alternative, and it's quite good. https://www.guilded.gg/

The issue is that we are entering a phase where secondary services are adding value on top of discord. Things like Patreon integration for content creators, numerous service specific bots and a growing number of VOIP related integrations (for example https://craig.chat/home/) make it harder to consider alternatives as replacements.

They haven't messed with Mojang / Minecraft too heavily (or altered the login flow)

> or altered the login flow

Mojang recently announced that all mojang.com accounts would be migrated to Microsoft accounts. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/mojang-account-move

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