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It's Electron. Which is a headless Chromium that runs as an application; Discord also uses it and it's not a terrible idea, but I bet a lot of money it's just Microsoft playing coy, Discord works on Firefox just fine, even voice and video chat, but I think only Screenshare server is Discord app only.

Proof: https://electronjs.org/apps/sk... https://electronjs.org/apps/di... (screen sharing is app only as it says on the bottom green box but everything else works fine) https://support.discordapp.com...

Discordapp.com, a web-based text and voice chat platform, allows uploading server-specific emojis in Chrome. It used to allow uploading them in Firefox as well until the settings UI redesign in May 2017. Since then, clicking the "Upload Emoji" button has done nothing: no change in the window, no message in the developer console. When this bug was reported on Reddit, on Twitter, and on Discord's feedback forum. The official response out of Discordapp.com's developers for the past 16 months has been that if it works in Chrome, it works. (See this Tweet and this feedback reply.)

Discordapp.com, a web-based text and voice chat platform, allows uploading server-specific emojis in Chrome. It used to allow uploading them in Firefox as well until the settings UI redesign in May 2017. Since then, clicking the "Upload Emoji" button has done nothing: no change in the window, no message in the developer console. When this bug was reported on Reddit, on Twitter, and on Discord's feedback forum. The official response out of Discordapp.com's developers for the past 16 months has been that if it works in Chrome, it works. (See this Tweet and this feedback reply.)

References: Twitter, Twitter, Trello, Reddit, Discord Feedback

How about the lack of a chat system with your Clan

Use Discord? Skype? One of the other free chat services? Unless you're playing on console in which case you knew exactly the environment you were living in already.

or just the general populace ?

Trust me, you don't want that.

Lack of a match-making system, even just a manual one, to create Fireteams for Trial of the Nine, the Leviathan raid or even just Nightfall Strikes. Heck, there's a Exotic weapon quest, that you get at the end of a solo campaign quest, that requires doing Patrols, a solo activity, in a Fireteam. How about a Group Finder tool ?

There are several very useful LFG web sites out there that probably do better than Bungie could have come up with in-game. Seriously, it takes less than a minute to get a group usually. Probably longer on console because the console GUIs are awful for managing contacts.

Discord already exists, and is free. It is a service meant for gamers first and foremost, but I, along with a lot of my colleagues, use it for a lot of non-gaming conversation, with Discord "rooms" for programming, organizing events, etc..

I'll agree that the language could be clearer, but it does show this popup when you try doing this right now. That should be a hint that something bad might happen, I'd say.

WhatsApp pulled that same stunt on older iOS versions just a few days ago. I convince most of my friends to switch to Telegram and Threema.
For business and games we mostly switched to Discord.

https://threema.ch/
https://telegram.org/
https://discordapp.com/ -- replacement for Skype and TeamSpeak

Pissing of their user base ... I really wonder how long companies continue to think they can continue to do that.

Use Discord instead.

Beat me to it. Anybody with $20/month can set up an IRC or XMPP server. There are probably cheaper options out there too, but I like the flexibility of having a Linode. I run inspircd with anope services. Works pretty well and wasn't that much of a bitch to configure. If one wants a more cloudy option, there are services like Discord that a friend's fandom group moved to after Facebook decided that she was pro-rape. My Monster Hunter group also uses Discord, and audio conference works just fine under Linux. Don't have a camera so haven't tried video under Linux.

It would be nice to see XMPP have a resurgence. IRC is great at what it does, but XMPP has multi-user chat that's similar (not as capable, though) as well as offline message storage. I think there was a protocol extension called Jingle iirc that brought video chat to XMPP.

The TwitBook model of doing things is just fundamentally broken. They want one big room that everybody has to be in to communicate. Everything is visible to everybody. Of course that's not going to work. If it were possible for everybody to get along, world peace would have been established centuries ago, and poverty and hunger would be solved problems. It's not that we don't have the tech, but that many people will never just get along. So, they've decided to go down the totalitarian route, which is perfectly within their rights. It's just... who would want to use a service where anything you say or post can get you kicked out for the flimsiest of reasons?

It's been a long time since I was interested in XMPP, mostly because it's just not something anybody uses. One capability that Discord (and TwitBook) has is posting images. Anybody know if there's anything similar for XMPP? I mean, I know you can just fire off a hyperlink, but I'm thinking something that stores the image server-side like Discord and TwitBook. I don't think that'd work well with IRC but XMPP is after all eXtensible and it seems image posting is what people want.

I heard about Slack just today. Installed it on my work Laptop as my customer is using it. I work at his site!

Now on my way home I see a /. article about Slack, oops ... about a competitor, rofl

As we are on it: there is another nice chat/messaging/voice that has great potential, Discord, from http://discordapp.com/

It is aiming at gamers but also at companies.