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> It's a completely free, both in message volume and queue size, highly available hosted 1-1 and 1-n topic based message queue with automatic sharding, excellent performance, and high-quality prebuilt libraries. It has built-in notification support to all platforms and a basic UI toolkit that is easy to use.

"Thanks, I'll base my next enterprise project on Discord as the message queue of choice."

Hah, what an amusing way to look at things, thanks for that.

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Clarification, due to the other person's (now flagged) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163157

None of this is meant to ridicule anyone. If using Discord for home automation works, great, have fun at it, feels like a cool way to have a hacker mindset (not to discount the arguments that suggest that there are also other alternatives).

I still think that describing a popular chat platform as a highly available message queue is funny though, because that's a very unconventional way of looking at things.

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