<story><title>As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amk_</author><text>IMO its origins in the gaming community, and all the moderation features that grew out of it, make Discord a much better fit for open source communities than Slack. For example:&lt;p&gt;- Individuals can block and report other users&lt;p&gt;- There are tiered mod levels&lt;p&gt;- Per-community pseudonyms, but a single account makes it easier to track bad actors&lt;p&gt;Markdown support, including syntax highlighting, is actually better in Discord than Slack already, too.&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;#x27;t checked out an OSS community on Discord yet here are a few:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reactiflux.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reactiflux.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chat.vuejs.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chat.vuejs.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discord.gg&amp;#x2F;reasonml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discord.gg&amp;#x2F;reasonml&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard</title><url>https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/7/16739644/discord-100-million-users-safety</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikkelam</author><text>I my startup company our dev team is pread across paris, copenhagen, dubai and beirut. We with struggled using slack and skype for communication but have recently went for discord, it really boosts the morale and connects the offices in such a cool way. Always being able to talk in a voice channel is just amazing, and everything works incredibly smooth.&lt;p&gt;You can even video chat if you make a group call outside of your channel though&lt;p&gt;Would recommend for other small companies in same boat</text></comment>