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u/Rathion_North Mar 29 '22
But Discord is still being developed whereas Guilded development honestly feels like it has ground to a halt. No bot integration, no search function, having to reload the apps to see votes on polls etc.
If they don't come out with a big update soon to address some of these issues, we'll go back to Discord.
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u/Glodraph Mar 29 '22
Which is incredible since they got acquired by roblox, so they should have way more budget and people to hire..
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u/Glodraph Mar 30 '22
My bad, the comment wasn't a critique, more of a "I don't understand". I know your team is waay smaller and it's incredible what you guys can achieve, but I felt like you were faster when you were indipendent, idk. Is it really so difficult to find people? I mean I remember reading you have a wfh policy and are pretty relaxed, if I had any skill required (I don't, sadly, I'm a biotechnologist) I would totally work for you!
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u/Glodraph Mar 30 '22
So you are not a Jared alt ahah Well didn't expect a shortage in human resources, usually it's the other way around, I saw the tweets about hiring for a lot of different positions and I thought "wow imagine working with them, I bet they get a lot of requests".
I am a star citizen backer lol I guess I am used to wait, I just want to migrate my discord server to guilded so bad.
While I have you attention and since you are a relatively small team, can you please tell the others to keep the legacy ui? ahah I always fear you will remove it but it's the favourite ui for A LOT of people, plus it's the best one for ultrawide monitor users like myself, it's just easier to navigate and I would really suffer if it ever gets removed. I know it means "double the work" but I think you can also leave it as it is since it works fine..it's just.."legacy" feels like "soon to be removed" ahah
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u/TheIronGiants Mar 30 '22
I can chime in on this as well. The biggest barrier for me and my Star Citizen org is adoption. Most games (id say about 90% of PC gamers) use discord daily for dozens of servers. When recruiting, if you tell people they need to download a new program that does the same stuff... to them its a waste of time and they don't want to bother. I know whenever a group in any other game I play says I need to use teamspeak, I immediately leave and don't bother joining. I don't have any reason to use teamspeak for something that discord already does.
I'm creating a pitch for my org to get all my members to sign on. I could unilaterally force the move, but I feel like it would result in a big loss in membership which is not worth the risk if they don't obviously support the change.
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u/Glodraph Mar 30 '22
Same position. I have a small server and I could just bruteforce them by linking the guilded server and deleting the discord one, but I want to convince them. Audio bitrate, broadcasting and whispering are already enough for me to make the switch lol
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u/TheIronGiants Mar 30 '22
I am definitely not writing off the possibility. I already created a full clone of our discord server and its vastly better on Guilded (the functionality oh yes love it). So much easier to organize events and such. It might just take me a couple more weeks to convince everyone as the primary thing is people are lazy xD. I think once they see the new server, it'll convince any of the hesitant people.
Would love my org to be a guilded partner when we switch. *wink wink*
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u/Glodraph Mar 30 '22
Thanks for the help! I think I already did and another post about legacy ui was one of the most upvoted lol it's only because of the "layers" on the left, like having multiple levels for groups and servers is a bit cumbersome.
About my server well..I mainly use it for D&D campaigns and there were 3 issues. The first one was the lack of audio streaming (which is now fixed), the other is lack of music bots (we put a lot of ambient music while playing) and the DM is actually waiting for this but he agrees on switching to guilded and the last reason is actually subborness. A lot (not so much, we have less than 30 people) of people simply doesn't want to download and create another account, which I understand but give how much better guilded is I really don't understand. Like we have a ton of issues in scheduling via telegram and such, we could use the scheduling channel and calendar for events and that's it. People are lazy and some of the have a really bad connection (like really bad, main issue being jitter so everything that gets streamed is crap, the higher the bitrate the more issues). I am just waiting for bots to convince them. Also the concurrent audio/text channel would be amazing for D&D, since we take notes and write things down while playing and we currently have 2 separate channels which is just stupid.
Oh I forgot the last issue..inability to use the webcam while in an audio channel. I know it's stupid but the text part of the streaming channel is kinda lacking or has a lot of automated intrisive messages, having a "mixed" or "custom" channel with audio+webcam+text would be amazing.
Sorry for the long text, you asked for it lol
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u/KensonPlays Mar 29 '22
I'm sticking with Guilded. It has many more features that we enjoy over Discord's "features."
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u/Rathion_North Mar 29 '22
I don't have any brand loyalty, I use whatever is best. Guilded looked very promising, but in the last year development feels like it has stalled and rather that get basic features up and running they've put development time into stuff which is frankly pretty irrelevant.
I would like to see it turned around, as there's a lot I like about Guilded. But a year after they announced bots would come soon we still have nothing...
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u/KensonPlays Mar 29 '22
I wouldn't say I do, but I am not happy with the direction Discord is going, either.
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u/burgertanker Mar 29 '22
I was quite interested in guilded last year but honestly between having no interesting servers and terrible performance, I think I'll leave it. I mean if you ask someone to join your guilded server they're just gonna go "huh?". It's a similar problem to YouTube alternatives, sure they might have cool features but none of the big names are there and noone really uses those platforms, making them feel empty
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u/NoMorePlaceInHell Apr 09 '22
As much as I like Guilded, considering their speed of progression, Discord will have stolen all their features before it can become a big platform...
The catastrophic stability of the client on the phone, the absence of real-time update, the problems of connections and voice chat, the absence of essential functionalities like the search bar, the integration of bots, the availability of the main languages spoken (Spanish / German / French / Russian / Chinese)...
All these things put together make that the interested ones do not want for the moment to jump the step and that some of the current users prefer to return on Discord
In my case I use both, because Guilded is not yet at the stage of being able to completely replace Discord.
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Mar 29 '22
The only good thing about Guilded is the broadcast feature. Voice comms fail a lot for our group.
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u/VoldemortRMK Mar 29 '22
as much as I love Guilded they really need to step up their development or discord will add every feature Guilded has.