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RE: A Plea to All Discord Server Admins and Managers, Also Steem-related Discord Server Admins
Queue how difficult it is to find integrations. And all the different channels. Yes, Slack is expensive but it totally works for us and the plug’n play is pretty awesome.
It’s two different approaches: Discord was designed for gaming channels. And they’re awesome at that. Now they’re expanding.
Slack was designed to take people out of email, and initially targeted at the web dev crowd. We grew with Slack and Slack grew with the demands, and complaints, of pro audience.
Different needs, different core audiences in the first few years for both companies leads to different DNA.
With Discord we need to hack our way in to making it happen. Zapier is not good a solution for clients, if we need a zap we develop it ourselves.
Yup and I appreciate Slack, but for a chat app (even when you factor in integrations), it's way too expensive for most startups :)
Mostly because of the stacked cost with all other 3rd party apps also used. It all adds up quickly. Google, Pivotal, Slack, CI, Github, Docker, AWS, and probably another 3-5. Oh yeah, Typekit and Invision too. Even for only 22 that’s a crap load of money every month.
Even more since we are not first world rates, although among the most expensive ones locally selling to USA, EU and also Hong Kong. It allows us to become CTOs, as angel investor, for the local startups we support. They can’t afford Slack, but there’s awesome other deals to be gotten via F6S and we have a collab with AWS for the usual $1k credits.
Our CFO loves to bring up Slack every so often, but we usually counter him by saying that he doesn’t need to get a new laptop every 18 months like all devs do. That balances the Slack expense out. :D