Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
US group has sought to broaden its appeal to a mass audience
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Enshittifcation imminent
Can it be any more enshitified tho?
Oh, it can get a lot worse
Pay $5 to send 50 messages per month. Then an additional $1 for every fifth message.
Discord: Hold my beer
Discord is completely fine. It doesn't break. Practically no bugs. The only annoying thing is that sometimes the shop gets a red badge but that's it
I completely disagree with this and have been for years.
It has often had connectivity issues, big lags, higher latencies and lower bitrates than Mumble or even TeamSpeak.
It's super bloated, they churn out useless "features" so fast that it keeps making it use more resources and makes everything slower.
Until recently, being in voice call with more than 3-4 people made all my 16 cores attempt self destruction.
It is a freemium piece of bloatware.
Disagree, it was fine when all it did was gaming parties but everything else from shitty UX, to rampant bots, to barely working functionalities. It's so bloated it cant keep up. Also it's proprietary, unencrypted and frankly just overall bad piece of software for anything but gaming.
I totally agree, except also for gaming.
Compared to alternatives, there are often lags and complete disruptions, latency is horrible, bitrate is a paid feature, and for large groups of voice channels (like managing a 500 player operation in Eve), features are still lacking.
Also security is a joke. In Mumble, you can manage (certificate based!) permissions on every level imaginable.
They spend their time on making silly themes and Nitro features nobody cares about.
This just hasn't been my experience at all and with respect to bots it sounds like server run issues not a problem with discord itself.
I play daily with friends and I have maybe one disruption per year with voice not working, zero lags, constant 5ms latency, and since 2018 I had completely ZERO bots pm me. Recently someone messaged me out of nowhere about playing Phasmophobia together, with a girly avatar, and I thought it must be some bot, but it turned out to be an actual person 😅
It's interesting for me how different experiences we have
Again, I think for gaming it's a great service. My pain point is that discord grew itself in all directions clearly just for higher valuation.
Also I'm just mad that discord is adopted outside of gaming because it suuuuuucks so bad for those use cases.
It's already pretty shitty to be fair