I'm so mad that I didn't get this idea first ffs why

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>>57381358

>>57381358
It was the memes and emojis.

it wasnt the idea that got them popular
it was billions of dollars worth of chinese backing

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>>57381358
are you sure you're posting the right pic there anon? it's just copying features of other chat clients and popular due to shilling, lots of shilling. not even close to an original idea or concept that wasnt done before

Memes aside they had a good strategy to get large userbase fast and once you get a huge chunk of userbase for these things more people will use it as "its what everyone is using"


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>>57382030
Good Advertisement is the only thing that's actually true here

boo hoo discord sucks because muh gaymen and i do't have any friends to talk too

>>57381358
Its not about the app, its about the smart marketing.

>>57382044
it sucks because i cant host a local channel
youre cucked into using their servers

>>57381358
But why not IRC?

>>57382038

I only use it because of the memey comments when you start the app..

>>57381494
Maybe the most accurate Jobs quote I've ever seen.

>>57382078
Grandpa, IRC doesn't save your conversation after you quit.

>>57382871
>its in the cloud :^)
you can save it locally

>>57381358
What is it?

>>57382871

Yeah, it does.

I have shit tons of IRC logs, man.

There's even plugins that'll upload it to cloud storage services, though you could also just put your log folder in dropbox.

>>57381494
if he is so smart then why is he dead

>>57381358
Discord makes literally no money. They'd be losing actually.

>>57382038
Ok lets not be disingenuous, its actually a solid piece of software with good features.

>>57383296
t. guy who doesn't know how a startup like this works

>>57381358
Just make something good then put the "GAMING" label on it and people will eat it up.

>>57383740
how do they make money

>>57384186
when they sell the company to Amazon or Google

>>57383243

He thought he was some sort of ascended being who did not have to shower if he ate vegan food and had no use for modern medicine until he was desperate and it was way too late.

Tremendous success probably didn't help his god complex.

I use the browser version. Pretty comfy desu, doesn't have all the bugs the client version has.

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>>57384646
What bugs?

>>57381358
Wasn't curse before this again? But discord just stole the marked or something... ?

>>57382871

is there a way to save discord logs locally?

>>57384654
>start to load up league of manchildren match
>chat audio shits itself for 4-5 seconds
>issue doesn't happen in browser version

is there any way to view Discord user avatars in browsers or somehow save the images/avatars? I despise that shit so much that you can't even right click avatar images to reverse image search them

>>57382058
Seriously, the amount of data they sell on you is pretty ridiculous. Frustrating because they initially claimed e2e & local hosting, then people actually read the privacy policy.

>>57384678
create a bot and scrape from the channel.

>>57382871
what is quassel

>>57383243
because you can't outsmart death basement dweller

>>57384681
Hardware acceleration

>>57384681
The so called "desktop app" is chrome rendering the website. You can literally click CTRL+SHIFT+I and get the same element inspector.

Indeed, it's truly a simple concept to provide a functional cross-platform web client, yet no one fucking does it.

someone should write a decentralized irc clone
you could hash + store the clientlist for a given channel name in a dht network + store backlogs locally in a decentralized fashion so if there is at least 1 guy still on the channel you can get the history back
you could ban people by subscribing to certain clients' public keys and filtering people they filter

>>57381358
How are they monetizing it? The client is free and has no ads and marketshare alone brings no revenue.

>>57384566
Why would Amazon or Google buy them if they make no money? I mean it makes sense when the company is of the scale of Whatsapp, but this is used by neckbeards and some light normies only.

>>57385299
they sell user data and chatlogs to """them"""

>>57382910
a proprietary, "free" chat app for gaymers

>>57385299
They plan paid plans.

>>57385340
>It's got account linking features with Twitch and Youtube Gaming.
>Many popular Twitch channels have their own Discord channel just for their subscribers.
>It's slowly replacing Skype and Teamspeak.
>Has potential to be a dedicated native platform for either mentionned services, both respectively owned by Amazon and Google.

Gee, I wonder.

>>57381494
Who is he to talk about modern science, muh cancer