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Theyve already solved the engineering part with Microsoft Teams. Even the UX is similar. If they wanted to make a discord alternative, they'd just repaint MS Teams to have a more gamer-like UI.

These 10 billion are for the userbase alone.

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Are you talking about their backend tech specifically? Because the MS Teams frontend is lacking far behind Discord in terms of polish. It has 5% of the features and already performs like a bloated mess. It's hard to tell how robust their backend tech is but given that opening new voice channels takes 5-10 seconds, or that they had to update the client to have more inaccurate online statuses to fix backend performance issues does not give me much confidence either.

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