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Comment by netsharc | Hacker News Reader

I'm turning to a grandfather, but I hear Discord is popular nowadays. I'm not a fan/I probably only have less than 1 hour experience with it, but the UI on this screenshot looks almost like it's reddit's new design:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/discord-forum-channels/

If they were clever they would've done some guerilla marketing to get people onto their platform off reddit...

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> If they were clever they would've done some guerilla marketing to get people onto their platform off reddit...

It was already happening "organically". Every single gaming subreddit had a discord as well. When they announced the blackouts, they left a "see you on discord" message. It's sad because I don't really like discord, it's a blackhole of information. With Reddit you could google and find things, unfortunately nothing gets indexed on Discord by google. So to find anything useful you need to join a discord "server" (not really a server) and use their search (which isn't great).

Discord are up to something with their new global unique @ username system. I expect totally public forums like Reddit soon.

And the community really hates it. It is just that there isn't good alternatives to protest. Apart stopping paying for Nitro.

After Musk took over Twitter and people were looking for alternatives, one that stuck to me was Discord: they have a user base basically tethered to the Internet and a solid brand. If they wanted to launch a competitor, it could really take off.

It appears that Discord have been hiring former FAANG employees(esp META) based from their glassdoor reviews which was found by a redditor https://archive.md/asyPC

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