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Discord vs Webex: What are the differences?
Introduction
Discord and Webex are both popular communication platforms used for team collaboration and online meetings. While they serve similar purposes, there are important differences that set them apart from each other.
Platform Focus: Discord is primarily aimed at the gaming community, providing features such as voice chat, messaging, and screen sharing specifically tailored for gamers. On the other hand, Webex is a more general-purpose platform, offering a wide range of communication and collaboration features suitable for businesses and organizations.
Meeting Capacity: Discord allows for larger group sizes in voice chats, supporting up to 250 participants in a single channel. In contrast, Webex has a higher meeting capacity, enabling up to 1000 participants in a meeting, making it a preferred choice for larger organizations or events.
Video Conferencing Features: While both platforms offer video conferencing capabilities, Webex offers more advanced features such as live closed captioning, real-time translations, and integrated meeting recording. These features can enhance accessibility and collaboration during video conferences, providing a more inclusive and seamless experience.
File Sharing and Collaboration: Discord primarily focuses on real-time communication and collaboration, with limited file sharing capabilities. Webex, however, provides comprehensive file sharing and collaboration tools, allowing users to upload, share, and co-edit documents within the platform, making it more suitable for teams that heavily rely on document collaboration.
Integration and Compatibility: Webex offers extensive integration options with various business applications and tools, including calendars, project management software, and customer relationship management systems. Discord, while it does provide some integrations, is not as robust in terms of compatibility and integration options, making it a better fit for personal or specific gaming use cases.
Mobile Experience: Both Discord and Webex offer mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. However, Discord's mobile app is optimized for gaming and social interactions, providing a more gamified and intuitive experience for mobile users. Webex's mobile app, on the other hand, emphasizes professional features such as screen sharing, file sharing, and virtual background support, catering to business and remote work requirements.
In summary, Discord focuses on gaming-oriented communication with larger voice chat capacities, while Webex is a general-purpose platform with advanced video conferencing features, comprehensive collaboration tools, and extensive integration options for businesses.
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
I consider Skype dead. Even Microsoft strongly neglected it. Webex is more corporate-oriented. So for your use case, I recommend Zoom. It is easy to set up, and the quality is very good. Zoom became such a household name that the average person heard about it. Moreover, any person probably has friends who may have used it. So it will be easier for people to get some community help.
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.
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.
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 Users65
- Unlimited Channels59
- Easy to use55
- Voice Chat51
- Fast and easy set-ups and connections49
- Clean UI46
- Mobile Friendly43
- Free43
- Android App33
- Mention system29
- Customizable notifications on per channel basis27
- Customizable ranks/permissions26
- IOS app22
- Good code embedding21
- Vast Webhook Support19
- Dark mode16
- Easy context switching between work and home14
- Roles14
- Great Communities13
- Very Resource Friendly12
- Robust12
- Easy to develop for12
- Great Customer Support12
- Bot control12
- Video Call Conference11
- Video call meeting11
- Able to hold 99 people in one call10
- Sharing screen layer10
- Great browser experience9
- Shares screen with other member9
- Easy Server Setup and joining system9
- Easy8
- Lower bandwidth requirements than competitors7
- Easy to code bots for7
- Noice6
- Easily set up custom emoji3
Pros of Webex
- Secure5
- Good branding - Cisco3
- High Quality3
- Easy to Use3
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Cons of Discord
- For gamers9
- Not as many integrations as Slack9
- Limited file size4
- For everyone4
- Sends data to US Gov3
- Unsupportive Support1
- Suspected Pedophiles in few servers1
- Undescriptive in global ban reasons1
Cons of Webex
- Horrible voice quality, voice gaps, drops1
