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		mciancia on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) Well, slack is extremely expensive IMO, so I'm not surprised

TillE on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

Yeah I always thought Slack is explicitly intended for Real Work and not much else (pay per user!), so it's pretty natural that Discord took over.

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