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I have like 7 Slacks. 2 of them are paid, 5 of them are hobby that I may use once a month. What are you suggesting? That I pay an extra $40/month just so that maybe I need an old message in one of those? I'd agree with you if Slack were indie devs but does Slack need my $40?

The unhappiness comes from the fact that people want to rely on a service, even if it's free. It would make sense if this was a change for the sake of resources or paid user experience. This is for neither, just a tiny push for people to pay or leave. Ironically, It may make me want to stop paying because having all the conversations in one place is nice if I take the hobby slacks elsewhere

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So I have to ask, why use Slack for hobby things instead of Discord? Is that driven by people used to having it at work? I'm confused by the thought of "hobby Slack channels".

Discord is actually fairly annoying because so many things are on Discord and split between servers.

I agree. My experience with Discord vs. Slack is not nearly what people seem to make it out to be. I find Discord significantly more confusing and the concept of "servers" is not one that makes any actual sense; they are using that word as a stand-in for rooms/workspaces/etc, but "servers" sounds better to gamers. I can't blame them, but it's confusing to me. Oh well. I'm old.

> the concept of "servers" is not one that makes any actual sense; they are using that word as a stand-in for rooms/workspaces/etc

What do you mean? The analogue to rooms would be channels, which falls under a server.

I don't really get your source of confusion, The concept of a server makes perfect sense in so far as it's a self-contained "themed" communication space that contains many rooms a.k.a. channels.

I don't understand the point of your comment. How is it annoying that different interest groups are separated from each other? Reddit is split into different subredits, IRC is split into different servers and channels, forums do the same thing, I could go on. Would you rather everything be jumbled together in one place?

How is this any different than slack being split between workspaces?

It seems to me that the main organization model of Slack and Discord are the same.

Discord is so childish. It's embarassing to have open.

Is it the friendly user-interface? The non-corporate artwork on curated pages? The community-vs-company-based branding?

What about any of that is embarrassing or childish? That it's not specifically designed for corporate drudgery hell?

Yea, pretty much, well put.

Being embarrassed by it seems childish. Who are you trying to impress?

Especially since it’s almost literally Slack except purple. The design and feature set are the same.

And the giant "Nitro!" banners with blob melting faces and the rest. I don't know I uninstalled it after I made the mistake of installing it at work.

In what way is Discord childish?

Nitro banners, blobs, public servers with bowling balls etc. If you're just in a discussion it's fine but click the wrong place and it's like a teenage dream exploded.

I feel like it's rather silly to be so concerned over something as trivial as that, like being worried over what other people think if you have a hello kitty bag. Life is entirely too short to be bothered by inconsequential external perception.

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