It would also cost companies a fraction of what Slack costs. And there's a thriving bot community for Discord as well

I worked at a startup where our single biggest cost was the Slack bill. It's crazy to me what companies will go through to "seem professional"

on the free tier discord also has some more useful functionality which, iirc, slack doesn’t have on free tier or has a lot of limits on

- free voice/video channels (persistent meeting rooms)

- put text/voice channels into categories

- RBAC for channel categories, text and voice channels (only engineering role can see engineering stuff)

- mute notifications from specific channels or categories

probably some more but can’t think of them off the top of my head.

straight up, if i were starting something tomorrow, i’d use discord and not slack.

Could be worse. I worked for a company that wouldn't pay for Slack, but mandated we use it.

Incredibly frustrating to search for something, see that people have discussed and answered it before, but not be able to read it.

yeah that's a nightmare! There are slack alternatives that have unlimited messaging history in the free tier!