And their lack of scalable monetization leads me worried about its longterm success as a platform - they are adding more cost-intensive features and continuing to try to support it with what is essentially a $5 monthly donation model.
Complaints aside, I love the service. Echoing what avree said, long term monetization worries me. I would like to see discord survive, but its story looks similar to Trello right now in terms of monetization.
FWIW, it generally works pretty well, and overall, Discord is a fantastic product that I'm happy to be using.
This probably involves not being Electron (from my own adventures in the area), so I don't hold out much hope, but it keeps Discord from replacing Extremely Expensive And Bad solutions like SkypeTX for me.
I'm trying to figure out what the actual context in question is, particularly in terms of technical connectivity. Is this being used for remote DJing? Or conferencing? Or an audio recording situation?
If you're prepared to throw money at the situation, it's possible this may be fixable with a simple bespoke solution. I say "possible" because, unfortunately, I just did some digging and found https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=453876:
> Unfortunately we don't support multi-channel > 2 nor multiple devices at the moment.
> ...
> Are there any future plans to support these two features? Is this a w3c issue or a Chrome issue?
> ...
> I am quite skeptical about this; I was told this requires a huge change in our WebRTC-side infrastructure, but I am not sure what the current status is.
> The spec indicates getUserMedia can be configured with 'channel count', so I assume this is Chrome issue.
That immediately nukes WebRTC :(
Could make for a fun project. I'm very fascinated with audio handling myself and this sounds interesting, but I'm unsure I'd personally have the skills (or mental stamina/attention span :< ) to be sure I could follow through. I'm also only on a Linux box, which brings up the platform-native problem.
It's also annoying having to adjust each users volume slider individually, I wish Discord would just do that automatically and normalize the levels of everybody.
