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Such a nice idea paired with a descriptive and non-click-baity title.

> that allow people to find those similar to them, you are taking away their ability to do so

This is what I want. That people find their SO on a natural and unexpected way and not by sticking to their roots and setting the right filter in their dating app. Do you think Americans would be Americans today if hundreds years ago all the immigrants stayed with their groups? And again I use religion and ethnicity here equally since most of these platform do this implicitely too.

A society can only evolve and develop in a healthy way if groups mix. There are already so many barriers which hinder us to interact with others. Just say no to rules from the last century.

I always got the best side project ideas when I was working on some other random side project.

Once you start to work on an even mediocre side project, just wait and after few days you get so many new ideas coming out of the mediocre project.

So, the message is, just start working on any idea.

As I wrote: It strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes which don't make life easier for the target demo.

There was a time when people used more and more websites because they were fed up with desktop apps. Hopefully we see the same soon again.

But this is not a problem of Discord but of all group chats. The initial discussion point was that Discord might be insecure because of young hackers building the product.

I made the opposite experiece and just made a test with some medium and similar sized chat servers with many users amd history (bitcoin related chat servers) on Slack and Discord in Chrome which should represent their native Electron apps:

Data from Chrome Inspector's network tab:

          Slack Discord
  Req.       93     103
  Transf.22.4MB   5.2MB
  Finish 39.19s   6.48s
  DomCL.  6.53s   4.01s
  Load   21.70s   4.16s

Maybe some more of us could do some tests as well. Anyways, I really can't believe that Discord is sluggish. Slack definitely is. First I thought it is so slow because they load all the chat history but they don't.

What?

This is where they started and you can also use the product for everything else than gaming.

And if you mean the dark theme you can change this to a bright innocent I-am-serious-engineer Slack theme.

> My CI has plugins, and do those have integrations for Discord too?

Yes and if not there is a Slack-compatible API, check Discord's API doc.

Just try Discord, takes one minute and will know yourself if you like it. It's not a behemoth like Slack.

> Discord's development team has a lot of very young people (no proof, but I'd swear some of them are 13-16 years old)

Someone spreading FUD?

Everything with Discord feels like a super mature well develoved product.