Who says we require it now ;)

Says the founder of Discord :)

You're replying to the CTO and co-founder of Discord.

We only allow iframes for a few sites and this was one of them.

We found the name is not an issue as growth continues at a rapid pace.

We are already multiple times larger than Slack :)

This is how we will make money.

https://blog.discordapp.com/the-discord-store-beta-9a35596fd...

Aside from the money we already make from https://discordapp.com/nitro :)

do you do that much money from nitro? I actually never seen that many adds in discord about nitro and I didn't even knew it exists (i'm using discord for over a year) and I mean we actually migrated from a 10€ teamspeak to discord. while it is unlikely that everybody in my group would buy nitro, I find it amazing that you do not have many adds in your app, not even about your own service. (i mean sometimes there is the update pop up and some messages between the chat messages, but we basically never use that much of the chat anyways...)

FTA:

> This is all in beta, so things may change by the time we’re ready to launch. What you see today will likely not be what you see in the future.

Thanks!

And thank you for helping make Rust awesome.

Is this only in our web client or also in our desktop client?

(CTO of Discord, in case anyone doesn’t realize)

also as a phoenix dev (just released my first big site), you picked the right stack :)

I frequently experience this in the web client. Sometimes we have to switch to Skype because it does a better job of mic activation.

Edit: I've adjusted the thresholds to try and tune it, but it's been very hit or miss.

It definitely drops the last word for the cell phone app. I often talk using the desktop client to someone using the cell phone app, and every last word of a sentence she says seems dropped

Android, iOS? Do they use automatic detection or did they adjust the thresholds.

Finish every sentence by saying “over” ;)

We use the desktop client and our group often has problems with words being dropped not only at the end but also in the middle of someone talking if they're using voice activation. :-/

It's usually specific users whose words get dropped, maybe their activation threshold is just low enough. But still, seems to me like this should not happen, especially in the middle of sentences, since the beginning of the sentence is recorded just fine.

(Windows 10 Pro)

It's the web client. I haven't tested the desktop client.

We started with Elixir, some of our engineers have used Erlang prior though.

The messages struggles have been sadly due to issues with Cassandra and GC pauses caused by bugs within it. We have been trying to work with the Cassandra developers to resolve these.

Voice issues should not be happening. Please contact our support with more information and we will gladly investigate.

Thanks for the response, it's good to know what's causing the problems with messages and that it's being worked on. I'll try to contact support next time I have voice issues with my group.

:) np

We love Cassandra, and hate it at the same time.

Check out this nasty bug we got. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13004

Two things are true about Cassandra:

It is by far the best at doing what it does

It has plenty of room for improvement

You are 100% right that it is the best at what it does.

And thank you again with helping us with that bug :) we really appreciate it.

I'm currently far down the database rabbit-hole and have to ask: What's so great about Cassandra that you can't get with CouchDB or other AP (yeah, I know...) databases?

Solid ingestion story. Very very good write throughout. Linear scaling. Easy expansion / contraction. Complete flexibility in consistency vs availability tradeoff.

And most importantly:

It actually works at scale. Huge scale. Thousand node cluster and hundreds of thousands of instances scales.

Because a good chunk of the active maintainers actually run this shit in prod.

You might want to have a look at ScyllaDB.

We are currently in the process of testing ScyllaDB with double writes for our fixed data clusters. It is very scary to transition to something so new :)

Our message storage clusters have a very large set of data that keeps increasing and using Scylla without incremental repair will suck so we are waiting on that.

What's funny is I got rejected from YC with Guildwork years ago. After flailing around trying to make it work I reflected on why it didn't work, Discord was the result. :)

Ha, interesting. Glad to see you doing so well with Discord, I used to spend a ton of time on the BG forums back in around 2009 or so, and vaguely remember giving some feedback on the very first versions of Guildwork.

Cassandra has a snapshat command that creates a directory by symlinking files that hold data (this is safe cause Cassandra files are immutable). Then you just upload them to your backup storage. This is obviously for recovery scenarios that are catastrophic.

Normally though since the data is replicated on 3 nodes, you can technically loose a node completely and rebuild it from the other nodes.