Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B(blogps.com)
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Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10B
https://blogps.com/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-discord-for-more-than-10-billion/
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Please no. I love discord and after seeing what they did to my boy skype. I can just see all the bans coming in just like tumblr did.
Microsoft to buy a communications platform? I guess today's Microsoft isn't the same one that bought Skype but this comedy video of the "Skype CEO" is terribly relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
It's funny, because as I remember it, locking down multiple-person video chats was about when they started to die. They even briefly touch on that in the video, too.
I remember that they did some other stupid things around the same time, but not what they were.
I remember that they did some other stupid things around the same time, but not what they were.
This was also discussed a day or two ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429
I would unironically love Discord for Business, unless it just becomes a re-skinned MS Teams (re-skinned Skype for Business, which was re-skinned Lync)
I think that isn't entirely correct. MS Teams was built separately from the Lync/Skype for business app AFAIK.
Or like LinkedIn...
Once upon a time... I left IRC, and when doing so I ended up hooking up with some of my friends from IRC on Skype. After much complaining about the poor state of Skype for Linux and Skype on Mobile, I left Skype for Discord somewhere around 2015. Is it time to leave Discord for IRC again? :)
This site doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Is any more legitimate source available to corroborate this rumor?
They've done pretty well with github. Actually I suspect Discord might be intended for integrating with github communities, which sounds like a really nice idea to me to be honest.
Only if they add a jabber or matrix/IRC bridge. Not being able to join the project group chat unless you run closed software from Microsoft sounds awful.
The soon-to-be-banned channels should move to telegram then.
I just think it's amusing that Discord is worth more than all of ZeniMax and its subsidiaries/their collective IP combined.
Time to consider IRC and Jitsi.
They should buy Tradingview too. Top 70 site globally, 30M MAUs