Discord reportedly filed confidential IPO paperwork and has pinned its hopes on a debut in March.

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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

One can hope this'll bolster Matrix and XMPP, but it probably won't.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago
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    Discord already is the place for information goes to die. Let them kill off discord like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Enshittification welcome to.

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    [–] 56 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Aah yes, the IPO... The first step towards enshittification.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (20 children)

    Great time to start looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Matrix seems like the one with most potential to develop into a 1:1 Discord alternative.
    Then you have XMPP, Mattermost, RocketChat, whatever Revolt.chat renamed itself into, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    That is a spectacularly bad name, lol

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  • [+] -10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    IMHO computers are made for text. As this comment illustrates.😆

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    That's fine for some folks, but i game with friends a lot. So far discord is the easiest for that. Been researching alternatives for a bit and might go back Mumble, though

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Can you share your screen on irc?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's way too fancy for irc, but good idea! I will think about how to do that. Would a single still pic be useful?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's common to stream gameplay to friends during a voice call. Sharing a single image doesn't really compare

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I was afraid you'd say something like that.

    Dang -- I have no idea how to address that....🤔

    Alright, well I'll keep thinking.

    Thank you very much for the feedback.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It's such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It's a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord's IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    If it helps kill the damn thing, excellent.

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    Welp. If you didnt think it was starting to suck before

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I would like to use now to remind the youth of today of the unending glories of IRC and we must return to it.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago

    I'm right there with you. I already hired a guy to make a WordPress plugin for it and also another guy to make an iPhone app. The former is done, the latter is nearly done. I'm adding a feature (as I am the product designer 😜) to do in-line images -- IRC sorely needs that capability.

    But yeah, both will be BSD, I think.... Tho as I think this thru, I really don't want to facilitate other end vitrification.🤔

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Discord and IPO is like the knight running at the castle clip from Monty Python.

    Constantly coming soon, but not arriving.

    https://youtu.be/dnok2txSzVo

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Fucking shit

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    How exactly can they make Discord more shit than it already is?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    There goes the neighborhood.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    This is why I don't use it often.

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