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Ask HN: Who uses Discord for work?

5 pointsby alexgaribayover 6 years ago
I've been seeing some open source communities migrate to Discord from Slack. But are there companies that are doing the same migration?

4 comments

LinuxBenderover 6 years ago
Our devs have integrated themselves into Slack&#x27;s API&#x27;s heavily. I don&#x27;t think we could bribe them enough to move away from it.<p>Does Discord have all the same integration API&#x27;s, hooks, etc? Can you set data retention policies per org?
atmosxover 6 years ago
We started using discord about a month ago. It was a blessing. Some engineers work remotely, while others work from HQs. We were using Google Hangouts, but GH lacks the ability to silence the remote user locally. If you silence a user, he must undo the silencing himself, which didn&#x27;t fit well in our use case.<p>Engineers who were not working from HQs could not stand all the crazy sounds that came through office mics, so eventually they&#x27;d had to quit and be accessible only through slack.<p>The fact that discord allows us to press a specific key before talking, is amazing. It solved one of the hardest problems we had.
saudeonover 6 years ago
We have been using Discord at work but not for work. Unfortunately it is the only thing they haven&#x27;t blocked other than HipChat and we all know HipChat ain&#x27;t the greatest.
marketgodover 6 years ago
I use Discord to post plans for my service. Everyone complains it doesn&#x27;t send enough notifications. This is what I really like about slack. You never miss a mobile push notification, with Discord, sometimes you get a notifications, others you don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s hit or miss.