Forget Slack. Discord is the best messaging app I’ve ever used.
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13 min readMay 12, 2019
With Slack’s IPO being all the buzz, I’ve got to say…their numbers have been disappointing. No I get it they have some of the best UX, for sure. Teams, Chime, Hipchat, Skype, are all…well, “have room for improvement,” compared to Slack. Glad we’re on the same page. Discord has been around for three years as a voice communications and messaging service, and their product is constantly improving and adding in new features. If you haven’t heard of them, it’s because you’re probably not aware of the video game community. And if you’re not aware of the video game community, you’re pretty behind in the interwebz.
No but actually you should read up on how big the eSports scene is.
Before we get into how good Discord’s design and UI is, let’s first compare some numbers.
- Slack reported having 10M+ daily active users (DAU), Discord has 20M+.
- Slack’s collective weekly usage exceeds 1 billion messages, whereas Discord averages 315M messages daily, equivalent to 2.2 billion messages weekly.
- Slack has 88,000 paying customers, 575 of which pay more than $100,000 annually. Discord’s service is free.
- Only with the paid plan does Slack allow you to have messages that…
