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Discord to lay off 17% of staff (www.shacknews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

yeah, sure, over expansion. totally has nothing to do with the rapidly decreasing functionality of the app driving people away

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

there is literally nothing they can offer me for me to ever consider giving them money. If anything the amount of trash they are pushing in then locking behind pay walls then shoving stupid popups and crap will drive me away.

I'm sure ventrilo still works fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The reason that I will never buy discord nitro, it's because they aggressively pushed their nitro light on me one time, and I saw that it included an increase to the file size. I foolishly thought, well clearly if they're increasing the file size, then the character limit must also be increased like in regular nitro. Nah, couldn't even include a boost to the character limit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure ventrilo still works fine.

I wonder if Roger Wilco is still around...

EDIT: Turns out it is not, and its properties are most likely currently owned by Electronic Arts, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Whose being driven away?

I can’t convince anyone to drop it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, people seem to love it, to the point where people push it every time a corporate social platform does something sketchy, totally oblivious to how incredibly sketchy Discord, the corporate social platform, is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I feel for the staff but as a service I'd rather see matrix or something else FOSS replace it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Same. Our communications and communities shouldn’t be owned by a company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Be company

Lay off 10-20% of staff

????

Profit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Whats wrong with IRC again?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not a one click solution. Users these days need those one button smartphone apps they can tap and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I use it to communicate with my wife. We tried signal and telegram. But discord works best for us and is reliable but also works on PC and mobile with ease. Qr logins are great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not a capitalist corporation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Same thing that was wrong with Usenet, independent web sites that aren't Facebook, and mailservers that aren't Gmail or Hotmail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There will only be 13 patches per week now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If you just need basic chat, Pidgin (via libpurple) supports Discord.