Discord Starts Testing YouTube Integration

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Discord is starting to test YouTube integration, just weeks after Google-owned YouTube forced two popular Discord music bots offline. YouTube integration has started appearing in a small number of Discord servers today as part of what appears to be a new test of a collaboration between Discord and YouTube. The feature is called Watch Together, and as the name implies, it allows Discord members to watch YouTube videos together. A test of a similar Discord feature started 10 months ago before disappearing and resurfacing as Watch Together today, and we understand the company has re-prioritized this particular feature due to the recent music bot shutdowns.

Watch Together is very similar to the experience of someone broadcasting their screen in Discord, and the button to launch it even appears alongside the video and screen sharing options. It's designed specifically with YouTube in mind, allowing Discord server members to create a playlist of YouTube videos by searching or pasting in YouTube links. You can even toggle a remote button that lets other Discord server members share the ability to control playback. While it's not identical to the popular Rythm and Groovy Discord music bots, you can use Watch Together to listen to music through YouTube in Discord. You may end up hearing or seeing ads, though. Discord warns, when you first use the Watch Together feature, that "you may see ads during YouTube videos." [...] If you're interested in testing the feature, it's currently live in Discord's Game Labs server.

This is why AC posting is stupid

[drinkypoo]

Any dildo can get a throwaway account and make a slashdot account, so there's no chilling effect on speech to eliminating AC posting.

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[drinkypoo]

Then what's the point of eliminating AC posting?

To reduce trolling and spam, of course. Because when Slashdot has eliminated AC posting in the past, it has successfully reduced both, because trolls are creatures of opportunity.

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[BAReFO0t]

I'm sorry, but let me destroy that real quick:

There's a script out there that automatically creates a Slashdot account for you. Use it in a loop to create accounts in bulk.
Since Slashdot doesn't change anymore, it should still work.

Nowadays, it should be easy to add those accounts to your password storage. Since that's just a SQLite storage. Easily accessible in a shell script.

It's a joke anyway, given that ALL moderation is done anonymously! And abused as much.
About 95% of the comments I see moderated "tro

Discord is objectively bad

[drinkypoo]

The client is about ten times heavier than it needs to be, not that they even need a client since it's all actually a web interface behind the scenes, and the whole system makes it very difficult to peruse historical data... If you choose to use Discord for your project communications you're choosing obfuscation, waste, and confusion.

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[snowshovelboy]

What should we use instead, IRC?

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[BAReFO0t]

Yes?
IRC supports everything Discord does.
You only need a client that isn't stuck in the early 90s.

It even supports ... *gasp* ... federation!

Removing which is the real reason Discord isn't just a normal IRC client.
And why WhatsApp isn't just a normal XMMP client too.

It's lock-in. The daughter of monopolism. And, to me, a crime.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Haven't kept up with IRC, but it supports screen sharing and voice chat? What about meme images?

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[derpagus]

you can already post a youtube link and have a chatroom on sqwok.im...

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[BAReFO0t]

If only there was a Discord API. That could user arbitrary frontends. Web, app, whatever . . .

And if that API was some kind of Relay system, that lets you Chat throughout the entire Internet . . .

What a world that would be!

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[BAReFO0t]

Leave to where exactly?

INB4 DiscordOS

[BAReFO0t]

And DiscordPhone, DiscordCar, DiscordFoods, DiscordCoin, DiscordSpace and DiscordDildo

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