• Pixel@beehaw.org
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    honestly as long as the stuff that discord is monetizing stays additive instead of changing services we already use to be paid-for, I really don’t mind if discord gives creators (and, by way of that, themselves) ways to generate revenue. Discord, even as a completely free service, is really far ahead of other similar platforms and offerings. I don’t expect them to be 100% consumer-first at the expense of generating profits (as much as i wish it were feasible for them to be), but the ways in which they’ve done that so far have been surprisingly unobtrusive.

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      Back in the day Discord’s advantage was that it provided a way for people to set up a voice communication server with push-to-talk without any technical knowledge and for free. I don’t know how they’re ahead of competition now… I don’t know what their killer features are.

      I use it occasionally but there are a few problems that always drive me away . 1) I have muted all the servers but I still get occasional sound notifications and just cannot find any source for them, might be a bug 2) there is no global notification history. To me that seems like a must-have feature and I don’t know how people stand to use discord without it 3) ui feels very clunky. To me it seems like I spend way too much time navigating through the ui and searching for things. For example, scrolling through the servers and trying to remember which icon was which. Anyway, I would be interested in hearing why people do use it besides everybody being there.

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        1 is definitely a bug, I’m in like 50 servers and I don’t have that happen like ever. 3 I can’t dispute, but I think that’s largely because they’ve increased their feature set for different kinds of users faster than their UI team has been able to accommodate for them. Better sorting for servers would be amazing

        2, there definitely is. On mobile it’s the bell icon at the bottom when you pull out the sidebar, on desktop it’s the icon that looks like a desk tray at the top right, they let you see notifications either from the active server or globally, so idk what you mean.

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      I was boosting my server so everyone could use animated emojis. Thing is, people now have to be Nitro subscriber to use them. There has been no warning. I really don’t like those manners of making things that once were “free” premium features.

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        animated emojis were never under server boosting as far as I know? I can’t think of a feature that Discord has made paid that was once free outside of trial periods… ever (with the possible exception of gamewisp emojis which I believe we should discount)

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      undefined> honestly as long as the stuff that discord is monetizing stays additive instead of changing services we already use to be paid-for,

      Narrator: “The microtransactions did not, in fact, remain only additive.”

      It never does. Greed always wins. And we will once again be left hopping ship to another platform.

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        Sure, and when that day comes I’m there to criticize discord for it. But, given they need to make money (they have to, they don’t have the option to just operate at a loss for the rest of time), it’s worth acknowledging their attempts to make money without infringing on the service the users actually signed up for.