6mo ago

Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

www.ft.com

https://archive.is/2025.03.06-011758/https://www.ft.com/content/4ab9efe7-36bc-44ff-b2cd-06eb2c38203a

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You think Discord is bad and enshittified now? Just fucking wait.
People need to get on Matrix or XMPP like fucking yesterday.
- Matrix does not work as well as Discord does when it comes to base functions. I wanted to switch to it but I found that it wasn’t as intuitive as Discord was
  
  Discord intuitivel? It’s got the worst ui I’ve ever seen. Maybe I’m just old.
  
  Yeah, tried Matrix a few time and it is honestly just unusable, even for myself, never mind convincing other people to join it.
  
  it wasn’t as intuitive as Discord was
  How is discord more intuitive? You don't even get a list of servers in the app
I'd like to extend a huge "thank you" to everyone who decided to form communities, especially around software projects, on this deliberately closed platform. Hope you enjoy getting milked dry.
- Let me be the first to send a "thank you" in return to the people who always advocate for Matrix and similar open source alternatives on here without acknowledging that performance, UI and on-boarding with those are just absolutely awful compared to Discord, and that is not because performance and UI on Discord are great.
God a takeover from Microsoft. Talk about a way for it to become immediately uncool. This fun thing just immediately needing a live account and Xbox shit all over it.
That being said I'm still leaving, but think of how accelerated it's endshittification would have been
- Watch as Microsoft shoves copilot into the thing
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Thoughts on Revolt?
- Seems pretty good, just waiting on the communities im in to leave discord.
  
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
  .....
  Also Person "why is nobody moving?".
  
  Yeah... Unfortunately it will be another instance of nobody leaving because Discord is where all the people are.
- They seem to be showing an Absolute refusal to implement video chat / screen sharing. Until then it's a non starter for a lot of groups.
  https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/discussions/196
  
  Bummer.
I'm here once again to remind everybody that IRC is still here and still the best.
- Thanks, now how do I start? I know nothing about IRC. What is a FOSS client I can use? What are the limitations?
Matrix with cinny works well for me. If you're turned off by element try cinny.
- Then the owners can cash out

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