We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it's gonna get real shitty, real fast.
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
Sorry, what is a IPO ?
Initial Public Offering.
Its where a company offers stock for public sale, and gets listed on the stock market.
Generally this corresponds with a company pushing hard to maximize profits over other metrics like user growth.
I feel like it's been shitty for a decade.. personal view though, clearly people like it
Edit: well, for almost 10 years, maybe 9.
The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.
Yess, thank you. Ugly, slow, frustrating. And pay to make it bearable...
Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.
You can wait right?
Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won't be able to say "follow our Discord for updates!" anymore.
I’m a lazy dev and want to get ahead of this, where should I post my updates?
Back in ye olden days you’d have your own website, a blog, or maybe a forum. It was indexable on Google and anyone could see and interact with your updates. If not for that there’s always steam.
On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.
Or just have an open forum/place where you don't need an account to get into some walled off bullshit.
Github (and alternatives), Fediverse, Reddit, Matrix
Maybe a blog like homepage powered by Cloudflare or Github
lol what, Discord enshittified years ago.
Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?
It's hard to leave because it's easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.
Fuck IPO imminent
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Wait, there's actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
Hey bruh u wanna buy nitro bruh. It's the new shit bruh
What the fuck does Nitro even do, other than give you some useless emoji?
Increased file attachment sizes (10->50->100MB depending on tier, I think).
Cross post emojis from any server you are on.
Cross post stickers from any server you are on.
Higher maximum server count.
One free server boost.
Probably a couple more vanity shit. Yep, entirely laughable business model.
I like it, it’s just extra stuff and nothing essential.
It’d suck a lot more if they gated necessary features behind a paywall
fyi discord has already been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
they're gonna make it a million times worse putting the activision blizzard guy in charge.
A bitter end for this lemon.
Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.
Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.
Where am I moving my friends group? Revolt is nice but not quite ready for primetime / getting a rewrite, and I've always been iffy about matrix. Is a signal group chat literally where we're heading to!?
Why iffy about matrix? You could always use mumble or teamspeak still
As someone who runs a Mumble server (and has for over a decade) – it's really not a replacement for the user experience that is Discord.
People want a unified UI, the ability to create communities with some amount of customization, embedded/live content, plus voice and video so they can chill and play games together. Mumble is just voice, and while it's a very good implementation of that, it's not even in the same user space as Discord.
Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it's not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.
I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.
Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That's all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)
There guess the chat app.
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
Slack but for video games
Lol when introducing new employees to Slack who haven't used it before I always say "It's Discord, but for work" haha
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