🆚 Discord vs. Slack
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Discord is much more popular than Slack.
- 🌎 Discord is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 Slack is more popular in Greenland and the Dominican Republic.
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About
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform that allows users to communicate via text chat, voice, and video.
It organizes users into persistent communities called servers containing categorized text and voice channels, supports role-based permissions for access control, includes bots through a public API, allows direct and group messaging, and offers features such as threads and screen sharing.
Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform for businesses, currently owned by Salesforce.
It provides real-time messaging with organized channels, searchable history, file sharing, workflow automation, and integrations with over 2,600 third-party apps.
It also includes informal live conversations called huddles, which start as audio chats within channels or direct messages and can include video and screen sharing.
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- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Ireland in the Online Collaboration category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Online Collaboration category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Online Collaboration category.
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