[Choco31415]

It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms.

Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does.

[niutech]

No, Discord/Slack is a mess. Interesting topics got buried in an IRC-style chat. Threaded BBS are much better for organizing communities, like Discourse. And it is open source, so no vendor lock-in with stupid age verification.

[BobaFloutist]

How many of them let me turn up/down or mute individual participants in a group voice call?

[swiftcoder]

> nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does

Apart from the open voice channels, what Discord features is Slack actually lacking? (and huddles can sub-in for voice channels much of the time)

[karaziox]

This doesn't feel like a real question... Slack free tier is basically crappy Discord, limited message history, no voice channels, huddles are also behind the paying tiers. It is basically worse on all aspects unless you start paying

[thinkling]

Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use.

[chocolatkey]

A nonprofit I help out just moved from Slack to Discord for a very simple reason: Slack pricing was too expensive, and as the amount of people increased, the price continues to climb. Discord is free

[tempestn]

The biggest one for me is that Discord will keep all history for free servers, whereas Slack only gives you access to 3 months iirc (and as of a year or two ago, has started permanently deleting older content).

[jdranczewski]

For large communities, the very granular role-based permission system of Discord can be put to some good use, I don't think Slack has a trivially equivalent feature.

[pxx]

reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.

[moffkalast]

Dude, Slack deletes everything almost immediately unless you have a paid version which isn't cheap.

[ekianjo]

"easier" - what really matters is end user freedom, the rest is just decoration

[direwolf20]

Wrong. What really matters is delivering dopamine reward signals in the user's brain. Everything else is just a mechanism.

[Forgeties79]

Apparently not because they have 200mill users.

I also value end user freedom, but I also accept reality. And I guarantee you you have compromised on your freedom/anonymity for convenience online. We all have. And ultimately discord is so turnkey that most people just don’t care