Do you think building a community on Discord or Slack performs better?
Dilan Aydın
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I need to hear about your experiences :)
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Rosie Sherry@rosiesherry
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It depends on your audience and when you ask this question you'll always get lovers and haters of each platform.
It's also worth bearing in mind that the chat app is only a small part of what community building is. People burn out and get overwhelmed pretty quickly from too many conversations.
I wrote a thing on what a 'community tool' is: https://rosie.land/posts/what-is...
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@rosiesherry thanks a lot!
Only used Slack and it's worked out very well. But I will take a look at discord.
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We've started our Discord a couple months before development started last year in August. We're now 20,000 users strong.
It's helped us tremendously, and a great way to connect with your audience in real-time. It's also been a great help for our launch today too! check it out producthunt.com/posts/trade-hub-the-social-trading-app
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@bartoszkboniecki Yes. In the very beginning we used some controversial methods to promote our server, that still a lot of big communities use today- joining similar servers and sending DM's to users. Not my favorite, but very effective. server listing sites like top.gg and disboard.org work great too, but I've found a lot of spammers use disboard to find new targets. We built a Discord bot that is fully functional with our web app, which is now in over 1,700 servers so people using it in those servers will find a way to ours.
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I'd prefer discord over slack because of its smooth experience
Love the discussion on community building, and I find that it always goes back to who is the demographic that you're trying to reach? where do they typically hang out at? I find that discord may have more technical members or burgeoning tech communities talking about crypto etc. - but slack has better exclusivity ( both have plenty integrations). But accessibility is definitely a factor in choosing here.
I prefer slack but only through familiarity and knowing the communities I engage with are already there
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we have decided to go with discord as well. But i guess it depends on the kind of community you want to build. Discords bots is what i find most annoying.
@nikolas_dimitroulakis exactly! I guess tech companies prefer discord mostly.
Castofly
Event (offline or online) are essential, otherwise it's not that interesting to follow these communities, especially professional / product.
Plus, providing an open chat helps keep the most active people by allowing them talk on the open forum format.
Discord is better for younger audience or people with good mics, Slack is for professionals audience imo
Oppflow
I think Discord is better for building a community since it has a room for better human interaction when it is compared to Slack.
@hilal_aydin you are right! Discord features can fit perfectly with the community.
Oppflow
I haven't build a community yet but based on my participant experiences, I'd say Slack :)
@janset_angi according to my experiences, the sector of communities is also important for platforms. I mean that to build an NFT community, Discord would be better. 🤔
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@dilan_aydin good point :)
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I actually wrote an article comparing 14 different community platforms. I never reviewed Discord, although I might add it in future.
I found Slack's pricing structure to be a cause for friction though as you have to pay per member, which seems like a headache and hard to budget for.
Also, personally I find Slack a distraction from work, with constant notifications, and people expecting immediate responses. So to add my community onto the platform makes me feel like I'll get zero work done...ever!
@martine_hammar thanks! I want to read your article btw. Could you give me the link or something? We will build a community soon. Your article can guide us. 🙏🏻
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@dilan_aydin Sure I'd love to share and discuss with you. Take a look here - https://www.storyprompt.com/blog...
Discord performs better.
Slack has a time-consuming sign-up process for newbies, and demotivates probable joiners at times.
The chat experience for both Slack and Discord is great. The hardest thing about either platforms is this: chat is only one part of community. There are also activities, rewards, incentives to engages. In that aspect, I feel like both are lacking.
However, from my experience:
- Slack for work.
- Discord for smaller friends groups.
- Facebook (maybe) for larger friend groups or associations.
- No great solution yet for large business / fan / user groups (beyond basic chat)
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Like eveyone else says, depends on the audience. I've tried on both previously, and then ended up going with a Facebook Group instead.
I think Discord bot is better for building a community.....
Discord is ideal for online communities, while Slack is better for businesses. It's just what they're built for.