In 2022, Discord had a revenue of $445 million. Maybe if they were a private company that would be enough.
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how do you get more money out of a product once you reach a point where anyone who will ever use it is already using it?
less money out, more money in, which is to say you make it shittier and more expensive. Remember, you're only as good as your most recent revenue change.
on its* free platform
Quests will show up tastefully in Discord where you can opt-in to stream your game to friends and win rewards for playing.
Every day, we inch closer to “drink a verification can” reality.
I've been keeping an eye on Matrix if discord keeps getting worse. It is awful trying to look up guides or important info in discord's format.
There's also Element which feels a lot like discord. The problem though isn't moving to a new platform, it's convincing the masses to do the same.
Just today I learned about Cinny which would make so much more sense to use for people who need the discord/slack experience but want to use matrix
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Matrix messaging is great but voice is still quite janky.
Haven't tried calling using Matrix.
Did you mean Revolt Chat?
Okay, I was expecting something a lot worse than what the article describes. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but at least these ads seem somewhat topical and also give tangible rewards for doing something that you might do already anyway (stream a game to a couple of friends in a private Discord server). Maybe I'm misinterpreting the change, but this doesn't seem that bad?
I'm not sure what everyone's hangup is about Discord. My group that I play video games with swapped over to Discord from Skype years ago and it's still a good experience. You want to hear about enshittification? Just look at what they did to Skype over the years. That platform is completely unusable now.
I doubt Discord will remain totally useable forever, but at least there are budding alternatives out there that might be able to carry the torch if Discord can't continue it's freemium service. One that I've tried in the past is Guilded and they are sort of like a Discord clone if you really want the same general user experience - pseudoforum live chat with VOIP lobbies, streaming capabilities, etc. I tried it out and it was fine but not worth swapping everyone on our Discord server to the new one since it wasn't substantially different or better in any way.
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