for many years I was prejudiced against #discord, thinking it was a gamer’s environment
I always looked to Slack when it came to real-time communication for business/foss
well, I’ve been positively surprised by discord for communicating with the foss project community
#foss #opensource #community #oss !foss@beehaw.org !opensource@lemmy.ml
cc @foss @opensource
Discord is awesome. Nitro makes it cool, buts its too pricey for what it is (I’d pay $2.99, not almost $10 a month). My worry is at some point discord will need to IPO. Seems like that IPO/cash out moment is the kiss of death for most great products. Once profitability is “key”, user experience goes out the window.
I think Nitro could “save” them from IPO because they have actual cash flow. Before they started monetizing I was absolutely just counting down the time before they’d need to do an IPO. They have the game store and other sources as well. Though I have no insight into if they’re profitable or not.
Never thought of it that way. That does make me more positive towards their monetization and pricing, as it’s much preferable to an IPO in my eyes. I’m afraid they might eventually do one regardless, though.
Funny you would think that using the fediverse. Discord has exactly the same problems Reddit and Twitter had where at any moment someone for whatever reason could alter the deal significantly.
Honestly, I’ve been trying to find a good alternative to Discord for a while. Matrix is promising. But I tried self hosting it a few times and there were too many technical gotchas specifically in my environment (combination of Cloudflare tunnel and Traefik).
I haven’t checked on the progress of Matrix 2.0 in a while but once that is stable I’ll give it another shot. The eternal problem after that is convincing a critical mass of friends to join you. Most of my friends have decent moral compasses and they still don’t understand why I have not touched Reddit since July.
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