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What is appear.in? Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login — no installs. Create a video room. Share the link. Appear together. Built with WebRTC & AngularJS.

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.

appear.in can be classified as a tool in the "Screen Sharing" category, while Discord is grouped under "Web and Video Conferencing".

"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider appear.in over the competitors, whereas "Fast and easy set-ups and connections" was stated as the key factor in picking Discord.

According to the StackShare community, Discord has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to appear.in, which is listed in 31 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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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!

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RuralAnemone
Head Devoloper/coder at Super Smash Eternal · | 2 upvotes · 180.8K views

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

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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.

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Pros of appear.in
Pros of Discord
  • 12
    Easy setup
  • 11
    Free
  • 8
    Quick and painless for non techies
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    Near Real-Time
  • 1
    No plugin necessary
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    Screen sharing
  • 65
    Unlimited Users
  • 59
    Unlimited Channels
  • 55
    Easy to use
  • 51
    Voice Chat
  • 49
    Fast and easy set-ups and connections
  • 46
    Clean UI
  • 43
    Mobile Friendly
  • 43
    Free
  • 33
    Android App
  • 29
    Mention system
  • 27
    Customizable notifications on per channel basis
  • 26
    Customizable ranks/permissions
  • 22
    IOS app
  • 21
    Good code embedding
  • 19
    Vast Webhook Support
  • 16
    Dark mode
  • 14
    Easy context switching between work and home
  • 14
    Roles
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    Great Communities
  • 12
    Very Resource Friendly
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    Robust
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    Easy to develop for
  • 12
    Great Customer Support
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    Bot control
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    Video Call Conference
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    Video call meeting
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    Able to hold 99 people in one call
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    Sharing screen layer
  • 9
    Great browser experience
  • 9
    Shares screen with other member
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    Easy Server Setup and joining system
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    Easy
  • 7
    Lower bandwidth requirements than competitors
  • 7
    Easy to code bots for
  • 6
    Noice
  • 3
    Easily set up custom emoji

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Cons of appear.in
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      For gamers
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      Not as many integrations as Slack
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      Limited file size
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      For everyone
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      Sends data to US Gov
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      Unsupportive Support
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      Suspected Pedophiles in few servers
    • 1
      Undescriptive in global ban reasons

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    What is appear.in?

    Create a video room. Share the link. Appear together. Built with WebRTC & AngularJS.

    What is Discord?

    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.

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    Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
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