What do you want to know about Discord?

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Discord has quickly become one of the most discussed tools in the last year in regards to community building — but I constantly hear of how much people hesitate when it comes to actually using it and adopting it.

I'm curious to know — what do you want to know more about Discord? What do you hate about it?  What do you love about it?

Erin Mikail Staples · Accepted Answer

@maxwellcdavis agree with you on the perception and the dark interface!

And the notifications I find mixed on so many servers — I left so many servers because of this! (but lol I also left slack channels because of people abusing the "everyone" tag`

Workflows — what would you want to see out of this.

Maxwell Davis · Answer

Discord problems:

- Workflows
 - Lack of useful Notifications (too much or too little noise)
 - Lack of integration (especially no-code tools)

Also in general it has a perception of being something that's used for gamers.

PS I use it loads!

Erin Mikail Staples · Answer

@dawidzamkowski I'm curious how you think Discord threads and Slack threads are different and how you have found it helps you build community?

And woah — slack and discord? I haven't seen a community that uses both yet!  How does the conversations differ?

Erin Mikail Staples · Answer

@aali_mehra Oh no! I'm unfortunately not affiliated with Discord — I'd contact their help and support on this.

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@erinmikail Well Discord doesn't really integrate with other tools well - so it's difficult to incorporate it with you standard tools.

Aashray Singhal · Answer

The User-Interface of Slack is much responsive and flexible
However, when it comes to discord, it isn't much flexible. Though we get a lot of features on Discord too at a cheap price .
Discord isn't a go-to option for community building.
I have been operating in many communities, and I feel Slack has an uperhand.

Jonathan Massabni · Answer

Interesting thread!
Love the discussions and interactions between community members.
Hate how complex the interface looks.
Would want to know why do they call their discussions "Servers" ?!

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@erinmikail Thanks, that will be highly appreciated.

Dawid Zamkowski · Answer

@erinmikail threads let me run community in more organised way.

For example, one of Orbit's competitors uses both - Discord and Slack.

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Discord is not opening on my windows 10 PC. What should I do?

Dawid Zamkowski · Answer

Hey Erin.
I'm happy that Discord added threads feature - I just prefer the ones on Slack...
It just helps with building communities.

There are always advantages and disadvantages. I think that the community should be on a few platforms - Discord for a more organized way of building relationships and Slack for mostly "daily" chatting.

What do you want to know about Discord?

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