https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17954088
For those interested in open source/decentralized alternatives to Slack/Discord/etc, I've had a pretty great experience with both the voice and video integrated into Riot.im[0] (uses Matrix protocol[1] for chat, and Jitsi[2] for voice/video).
I've said before that I can't really justify nonfree software for something as simple as text chat.
That said, rooms with very large numbers of people trying to communicate with voice/video is one use case where maybe it makes more sense for a commercial product to solve it.
[0] http://riot.im/
[1] https://matrix.org/blog/home/
Discord key statistics
- Discord generated $130 million revenue in 2020, an 188% increase year-on-year
- Almost all of Discord’s revenue comes from its Nitro, its premium enhancement bundle
- Discord has over 140 million active monthly users and 300 million registered accounts
- In 2021, it was valued at $15 billion, doubling its value in under a year
Discord overview
| Launch date | 13 May 2015 |
| HQ | San Francisco, California |
| People | Jason Citron (co-founder, CEO), Stanislav Vishnevskiy (CTO) |
| Business type | Private |
| Industry | Communication |