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Discord vs Skype: What are the differences?
What is Discord? All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
What is Skype? Voice calls, instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
Discord and Skype belong to "Web and Video Conferencing" category of the tech stack.
"Fast and easy set-ups and connections" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Discord, while over 248 developers mention "Free, widespread" as the leading cause for choosing Skype.
Starbucks, PedidosYa, and Coderus are some of the popular companies that use Skype, whereas Discord is used by Bitupper, Kistriver, and SuperBuddy. Skype has a broader approval, being mentioned in 736 company stacks & 733 developers stacks; compared to Discord, which is listed in 45 company stacks and 38 developer stacks.
I want to host an online Jeopardy game with less than 30 participants. During each round of the game, I'll stream some videos. The point is to gather friends together to play the Jeopardy game and watch random stuff. Please let me know if there's a more suitable platform other than Discord and Zoom. Thanks, everyone!
Personally, I think that Discord works much better than anything else, even if you don't have Nitro (which is what they call their premium plan). You could seriously do this Jeopardy thing with just Discord (and maybe a bot to make it easier)
Zoom would only let you have a crappy meeting that hackers could easily join. Discord actually has DDoS protection, Zoom just has things that can easily be bypassed.
And if you do want Nitro, it's only $9/mo or $99/yr
Hi, I am helping teachers in my kid's schools to set up distance learning and wanted to see what is better between Webex, Zoom, and Skype (although only putting this one in as most parents probably have it). The children are 8-9, so they won't be using it on their own and the parents have no experience using Webex or Zoom.
The main use will be for the teacher to explain what they will be covering in the week and enable some social interaction between the kids.
I need to be easy to use for about 20-25 people.
Thanks for your advice, Lisa

Hi, Lisa,
I haven't used Skype in a long time. I have I lot of experience with Zoom and Webex. Both for me are very good tools, especially if you have money to pay for (to unlock more features, like more people in a video conference - Zoom).
Nowadays, I've used more Webex with my undergraduate students, I'm using the free account. Cloud recording is a features very useful, especially while using the free account (thanks Cisco!). Webex has control features very useful (e.g., mute, raise hand etc).
Kind regards,

From my experiences I feel like Zoom is a pretty intuitive program to teach kids, however Skype might be more common amongst them already.
I am a big fan of Microsoft Teams.
They all do the same pretty much but Teams I find the bells and whistles are easier to find, like custom backgrounds... creating groups for topic discussions that remain there until you want to change/edit or delete. Easy to share files.

We've been using Zoom for about a half a year and it's stability is unbeatable. We have all-hands on Fridays with 100+ participants. The free tier can easily handle the requirements, the only limitation is that max meeting length is 40 minutes. After that you can immediately restart the meeting, but the pro option is also very affordable. It also features screen sharing and whiteboard sharing out of the box. I also appreciate that it's not mandatory to register an account to attend a meeting.
as many people say that you can only hold 30 to 10 people in one discord call if you were to make a server and add a chat or a VC you can hold up to 99 which is more than zoom and you can also use the text chat, general chat or anything else that you add and the best part you can hold pretty much infinite people I have personally seen servers with up to 100k people in it. One of the better parts is that you don't necessarily have to download it you can search it up on google and make an account it's as easy as that. Another thing is due to the original purpose of the website/app is that it's very customizable meaning that your students can customize heir profile pictures and names, but not to worry in a discord server you can have it where only you can change their nicknames so let's say things get too confusing or you want to be able to see who they really are you can just change it to their name. One last thing I will say is that you can have customizable ranks and so on so if you desire to split people into teams you can do so and with that, you can customize what they can do like give people ranks or de-rank them. Like I mentioned earlier about VC's you can also screen share and do videos so you can see their screen or their face.
Pros of Discord
- Unlimited Users58
- Unlimited Channels55
- Easy to use51
- Voice Chat47
- Fast and easy set-ups and connections47
- Clean UI43
- Mobile Friendly41
- Free39
- Android App31
- Mention system26
- Customizable notifications on per channel basis26
- Customizable ranks/permissions25
- Good code embedding21
- IOS app21
- Vast Webhook Support19
- Dark mode16
- Easy context switching between work and home14
- Roles14
- Great Communities12
- Great Customer Support12
- Bot control12
- Very Resource Friendly12
- Easy to develop for12
- Video call meeting11
- Video Call Conference11
- Robust11
- Sharing screen layer10
- Able to hold 99 people in one call10
- Shares screen with other member9
- Easy Server Setup and joining system9
- Cool9
- Great browser experience9
- Easy8
- Easy to code bots for7
- Better than Zoom7
- Lower bandwidth requirements than competitors7
- Noice5
- Not got wierd emojis like everything made by google5
- Everyone look at my con (it's a pro disguised as a con)4
- Easily set up custom emoji3
Pros of Skype
- Free, widespread258
- Desktop and mobile apps147
- Because i have to :(110
- Low cost international calling57
- Good for international calls56
- Best call quality anywhere, generally10
- Beautiful emojis5
- Chat bots4
- Translator2
- User1
- Skype for business integration with Outlook1
- Not the Best, but get the job done1
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Cons of Discord
- Not as many integrations as Slack9
- For gamers9
- Limited file size4
- Discord is great, what are you talking about?4
- For everyone4
- Sends data to US Gov3
- Are u mad u ever heard of DMs???2
- Unsupportive Support1
- Undescriptive in global ban reasons1
- What i mean by this is someone said u cant chat lol1
- Suspected Pedophiles in few servers1
- Zoom is WAY better bc you can't even chat on Discord0
Cons of Skype
- Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare5
- Not always reliable3
- Outdated UI3
- Birthday notifications are annoying3
- The worst indicator noises of any app ever3
- Finding/adding people isn't easy2