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Unpopular opinion: Discord is far better than Slack for software-related chat: Syntax highlighting: 👎 Slack (snippet workaround) ✅ Discord Indentation in bulleted lists: ❌ Slack ✅ Discord Leaves raw text input verbatim: ❌ Slack - no, loses your formatting ✅ Discord

Benjie

@benjie.dev

Live markup preview: ❌ Slack ✅ Discord Messages retained forever, even on free plan: ❌ Slack ✅ Discord Fun: ❌ Slack ✅ Discord Both have VoIP, screen sharing, threads, channels, permissions, statuses, notifications, reactions, etc. I do like Slack's canvas though; I use it quite heavily.

12/2/25, 5:10 pm0 reposts1 like

Benjie

@benjie.dev

12 Feb 2025

This rant inspired by Slack dropping the (significant) indentation from the bullets in a message, and not showing what I entered when I go to edit the message. Had to go back through and figure out the indent level for each bullet, and put it into code blocks 🙄