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Slack v discord4/30/2023 Basically I would never choose Slack over Discord, because of how crappy they implemented these things. Slack does not handle Markdown well at all, while in Discord it almost always does what you expect, including escaping of special characters and highlighting code blocks properly, which is a must have for programming languages. > For a big organization like a programming language or a company the Slack model is preferable.Īnd yet communities decide otherwise (examples: Pharo community, general progamming community servers and probably many more). Switch a channel in Slack? Merely takes a few seconds :D The comparison Slack vs Discord in terms of performance is like comparing 2 completely different things. We also don't even need to get started on performance. It's actually quite a poor solution and an artificial limitation. While Discord does not have threads, I would not at all call the Slack solution amazing. Wait, are we thinking about the same very limited concept of one additional layer down? It feels like they must have intentionally developed it badly, so that you cannot create a thread to reply to a message that is inside a thread. For a big organization like a programming language or a company the Slack model is preferable. There are probably caveats to these statements, but roughly speaking the default assumption on Slack is you don't belong to any channels in a server but can join what you want or what is configured for you, and on Discord the assumption is that you belong to everything and sometimes a Discord server will configure it so certain things are hidden. * Slack also has a different model for channels on a server. But now I would strongly oppose moving to Discord only because of this issue. It feels like an awfully hard new UI pattern to get used to after so many years of single-threaded conversation on e.g. I remember when Slack added this feature lots of people including me were a bit disdainful. One discussion or one person's question can become a thread and then the channel won't be continuously pinged by the ongoing discussion, plus multiple discussions can happen in tandem. * Slack threads are an amazing feature and frequently used on the Elm slack. When I asked why I found out that Discord's features are most certainly not a superset of Slack's. When I joined the Elm community I thought it was weird they use a Slack for real time discussion and not a Discord.
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