Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B

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I'd like to shill on Matrix, (https://matrix.org) which is essentially a federated and open source Discord like app.

Also, kind of modern IRC.

• discord-api-docs

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  Official Discord API Documentation

  

While I'm sure this is just their way of validating their current market value after their last cash raise. Assuming its real this might actually be a good thing, at least on the technical front. For all the talent at Discord and their impressive efforts as far as core product... their basically non-existent privacy between users is a disturbing joke, and while I want to be polite, i'm just going to quote myself from a comment on the github issue here. https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/1393

> I’ll be brutally honest, I am quite disappointed to discover that a service so popular that goes out of its encourage developers to integrate, embed, and build on top of their api, lacks any machine readable API specification for developers. Really, really disappointed

> Edit: This shouldn't be funny. How is the discord public api developers lack of respect for the developers who use their api funny? Standards based api specifications makes it easier for everyone to work with their API. Their API documentation isn’t translated, they have no machine readable API specification to make up for the lack of translated documentation for people who speak languages other than English.

> I am disappointed because this is at odds with their professed goals of being for everyone. Apparently they are only for everyone if you’re a user/customer. Developers better read English and have enough spare time to implement their api from scratch... And before someone mentions their community libraries, I’d argue that being required to use those to get anything practical done, because the official API isn’t specified well enough to just use directly with standard tools, is just a further disappointment.

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• Mumble

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• The Lounge

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FWIW you can give your IRC users an experience closer to Slack with TheLounge [1] or Convos [2].

[1] - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge

[2] - https://github.com/convos-chat/convos

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