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Discussion on: Slack or Discord?

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Joachim Zeelmaekers

Slack all the way, only using Discord for calls if needed. Slack also thinks about the needs of users. You can nog guest invite someone from 1 Slack workspace into a channel from another workspace. This is useful for short projects or to invite other developers without paying for the extra user costs.

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Ivan Jeremic

You can invite anyone for free on Discord for me this are not valid points.

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Joachim Zeelmaekers

True that! That’s why elaborated on Mathew’s comment.
In most cases Discord should be enough, but the Slack has integrations to show the build statuses of the pipelines from the current applications. Our monitoring tools are all linked to Slack so that we can immediately start investigating the issue, before the customer sends a complaint. Those features are worth the money when you are running a business and developing a brand. For small companies Discord might be a better choice in terms of costs.

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Mathew Chan

To be fair, Discord is completely free and paid plans have fixed pricing regardless of team size.

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Joachim Zeelmaekers

Yeah that’s true and in most cases Discord should be enough, but the Slack has integrations to show the build statuses of the pipelines from the current applications. Our monitoring tools are all linked to Slack so that we can immediately start investigating the issue, before the customer sends a complaint. Those features are worth the money when you are running a business and developing a brand. For small companies Discord might be a better choice in terms of costs.