Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Why did everyone decide to abandon Discord with its full-featured UX for Telegram which, besides being Putin’s personal surveillance network or whatever, is just a serious PITA to use? Cramped, under-organized, fish-market vibes. Complete with general stinkiness. Worse, newer apps seem to emulate it as though it’s some sort of aspirational gold standard rather than an avoidable shit standard. Not sure why, but despite their own problems, slack and discord feel like being in a spacious building while telegram feels like being in a black hole/boiler room. The move is like how we all gave up on TV and started consuming video on phones. I think it’s because the “organization” abstraction is missing. The “community” type group with groups within just feels even more cramped. Like a new fishmonger squeezing in among existing ones.And the channel abstraction is crap. Discord’s only real drawback is the huge VC funding overhang which will undoubtedly drive them to dumbass revenue moves soon.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. It's subpar on mobile where most consumers spend free time 2. Once you join too many groups, nearly impossible to manage the flow of information
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
ive been trying to get off telegram for six months now just terrible to use
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Simon de la Rouviere
@simondlr
Great descriptions. Telegram has always been awful for me. Insane it's still so popular for group chats.
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downshift
@downshift.eth
telegram clearly worse monetizing shitty animated emojis (that no one wants) is…the best you’ve got? really? we need startups that start with a revenue strategy.
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wave
@lk
I still like discord more Plus I am a bit of a sucker for the avatar decorations not going to lie
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MetaEnd.degen🎩🚨
@metaend.eth
Discord is funded by China though I moved to Simplex
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marv 🛸
@marvp
Community management on discord never ceases to amaze me. I almost wonder why crypto is so taken with Telegram since there's clearly a better option in Discord
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