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Discord

An integrated platform for text and voice communications. Offers tailored channels for different topics, customizable moderation tools, low latency for fluency, and managed user roles for optimal community facilitation.

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Comment summary: Discord is praised for its ease of use, modern UI, and functionality for both gamers and non-gamers. Users appreciate features like cross-platform availability, server customization, and integrations. However, there are significant privacy concerns, with allegations of data mining and lack of end-to-end encryption. Discord's handling of user data and monetization strategies, including paywalls, also face criticism. Several users remain wary due to these privacy issues, while others continue to prefer it over alternatives for its robust community features.
Top Positive Comment
Ceremonious Intelligence
3

Discord is a great place to make communities and grow communication with others around them, but there comes a time when a company needs to listen & get their act together in hand when things get serious. It's been one heck of 2020-2021 (in a bad way). Even though I rate this 4 stars for having everything original, I am still disappointed in their lack of support to help get a ban reissued due to a self-promotion bot "Server Scam". It was a HUGE fatal & accidental click that turned to the worst back in May. Idk why this is a thing, but something needs to get done with these advertising bots that randomly appear in my dm's and provide no information on what servers thereon. It sucks and it stinks. All of this leading to getting my phone number whitelisted & gmail whitelisted too. I still TO THIS DAY disagree with the whole blocking phone number thing, I can get from the email system, but the phone number has nothing to do with anything. This limits me from having to join specific servers that have a system level to an extreme point ((meaning to verify and phone number in order to get in)) In my opinion, it's stupid and pathetic to have a server do that. I rate the app a 4 star, but their support is a middle of 2 & 3 or just flat out 0 the way how they handle accounts. ONE screw up, and you're done for. I recommend to everyone that is just starting to use Discord to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL & AWARE of what is going on. But I'll give it this, their newest feature release regards of the Banner Profile & Stickers is extremely well done and would love to see more features adding to their $9.99 Subscription on Discord Nitro. They're even adding an Integration Feature where you can identify yourself as someone completely different on this specific server which I really love that type of concept & to see happen. I'll give it that extra star because of their newest features that there revealing out to the public and making the application extremely fast and quick, with no lag and glitch.

Top Negative Comment
shiki
37

Discord reserves itself the right to sell all your data, including everything you say, share or upload, to third parties. Read the terms of service before you use it!

Dylan Hunt
0
CEO, CTO at https://imperium42.com

The Skype Slayer. They're essentially a free Slack - imo, even more powerful. Even their APIs and libs are incredible.

CIMPEAN ALEXANDRU
0
FOUNDER at BRAHMABIT SRL

Discord is a powerful all-in-one communication platform that combines text, voice, and video in a highly organized way through servers and channels. It’s especially strong for communities and teams thanks to its flexible role system and advanced moderation tools.

Voice quality is excellent with low latency, making it ideal for real-time conversations, gaming, or collaboration. The interface is intuitive once you get used to the server structure.

Cons: Can feel overwhelming at first, and resource usage can be high on desktop.

Verdict: One of the best platforms for structured communication and community building, with great performance and flexibility.

coffee415
1

I can't like Discord anymore due to how far gone the company has become by treating their users as the product instead of the customer. I was an open beta tester of Discord, Jun 2015 account and it was promising.

Discord peaked around 2017-2018 and it took a while for TeamSpeak/Mumble/Ventrilo groups to move over. Unfortunately, it is no longer the same.

  • Discord orbs is the equivalent to in-app ads collecting your data
  • Profile themes are abundant over stability and bug fixes
  • Controversial, biased moderating decisions
  • Mandating user ID collection in the UK and associated commonwealth countries
  • Mandating user ID collection to verify an adult account

I wish it didn't end this way, but ever since Discord split the Nitro subscription to Basic and Nitro, it all went downhill from there.

cum
0
cum at cum

i'm just gonna paste what i've put last time on my website :

"Hmm... Oh... That's a rough one... keep reading notes Really tough one...

Basically, proprietary dogshit. Ads, paywalls, microtransactions, creepy history, pedos, doxxing, money laundering... Their community is as stupid as the community behind this PTSD they gave me.

"Yeaaah but it was better before" - Discord wasn't better before and beyond all it's years of existancial crisis it has been dogshit in the whole goal of becoming a multi-milionar compnay, be sold to someone and then run off with the money. They're still going as of today and I'm really shocked by how much people are trusting these dumbasses.

Remember OpenFeint? This thing was here right before Discord and made by our "beloved" Citron. It was a rushed thing that took all your personal infos and was made to be sold out to another company. And it worked, flawlessly. People got trolled. And everyone on Discord doesn't know they are getting trolled right now, which is problematic. Sure they changed CEO, but that's still terrible.

Aswell, Discord collects your data without hunger, and send them up to the big big boy Tencent, so Bing Chilling might know that you're simping over that E-girl chick right there. Unfortunately he won't tell you, he's cheeky.

Mobile app, clunky, full of ads, eats even more RAM than Chromium our friend and takes even more cache than storage you have on your phone. Desktop app? Same thing, can't run on a low-end PC smoothly, like at all. Their code is even more unoptimized than my brain... Yeah and it's gonna get worse overtime.

Discord also breached multiple times the GDPR in a row! Perfect example. Yeah Discord does not gives a shit, especially about you. Imagine owning the best server of Discord ever, having alot of friends then getting banned all because you said "how about i kill you smh". You lost everything you done. Beautiful. Fantastic. Ladies and gentlemans, this is Discord."

some cute links aswell : https://blog.eeveehug.tk/blog/for-my-fellow-discord-users https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord https://stallman.org/discord.html https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord https://artemis.sh/2022/01/30/discord-holds-the-keys-to-your-heart.html https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=M5X6iLHzqAI

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ok I would agree but your name is cum like what the fuck that's some discord user type shit

Aviatrix
1

Discord has recently added AI scraper bots to several servers I own, without my consent or knowledge. This is a blatant violation of privacy. I am jumping ship as soon as physically possible.

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  • winget install -e --id Discord.Discord
  • brew install --cask discord
  • flatpak install flathub com.discordapp.Discord

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What is Discord?

Discord is a communication platform used by various communities. It provides a space for regular interaction and allows private discussions. Discord servers are organized into topic-focused channels for easy collaboration and conversation. It offers voice channels for effortless communication and uses low latency voice and video technology.

Discord supports text, voice, and video communication. Users can video greet, live-stream games, host group screen shares, and create custom emojis from images. Users can share a range of content and pin preferred items for easy access.

Discord suits small groups and large fandoms. It offers customizable moderation tools and permission levels for user-specific group organization. Users can assign moderator roles, grant special members access to private channels, and manage their community effectively.

It has webhooks which enable data transfer from other applications to discord

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    US flagDiscord Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $3 and $17 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.9 (89 ratings)
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