Not sure how to unpay wall this if someone knows please inform.

The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    66·
    9 months ago

    How can we make our product worse? The latest pop-ups aren’t annoying users enough. We really need to kick things into high gear if we want to lose users.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    57·
    9 months ago

    To earn rewards, users must stream themselves, completing an in-game task from the advertiser while at least one friend is watching. Users who watch their friends can then set off on quests of their own.

    Yeah this won’t go well at all…

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    323·
    9 months ago

    Discord in March announced plans to launch the new ads, which it calls Sponsored Quests, and they will become part of the platform beginning in the coming week. The ads will be targeted to users based on their gameplay, age and geographic location data, and they will appear in the bottom left corner of users’ screens, said Peter Sellis, Discord’s senior vice president of product, in an interview.

    To earn rewards, users must stream themselves, completing an in-game task from the advertiser while at least one friend is watching. Users who watch their friends can then set off on quests of their own.

    The only Sponsored Quest I’m interested in is a blowjob by Peter Sellis, lmao. There are myriad alternatives to discord. Their hamfisted attempt is gonna drive away users. Move your office away from San Fran or something if the budget is tight.

    • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      9 months ago

      Move your office away from San Fran or something if the budget is tight.

      Its basically never a tight budget and always the eternal quest for number go up.

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      There are myriad alternatives to discord.

      Honest question, what alternatives are there that have community management tools (ruling out WhatsApp, etc), are non-poweruser friendly, and preferably don’t require self hosting an instance?

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    281·
    9 months ago

    hahahaha, come to steam voice chat. it kinda sucks. but at least it’s not discord

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      To be honest I actually like the steam text messages. I often lfg using steam discussion boards etc and then you just message in steam as well. Actually convenient.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    9 months ago

    I seldom use discord … but every time I do I have to take two minutes to update the damned thing before I can even use it.

    • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33·
      9 months ago

      And yet they refuse to update the infrastructure it uses, it uses such an old version of Electron that things that Google solved years ago are still issues on Discord, especially for Linux users.

      I understand we’re about 4% of the user market, but why do Linux users not get to have audio with screensharing? macOS isn’t gaming focused at all, but has support for it. You have to essentially trick discord to get support for it on Linux.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    262·
    9 months ago

    The article states that it is opt-out and that there would be a toggleable setting to turn it off, but if they are going this way it does not bode well.

    For anyone like me looking for an application with the same aesthetic feel and general functionality as discord (if Matrix chat does not suit you), then take a look at revolt chat https://github.com/revoltchat.

    It’s basically an open source discord clone that looks almost identical, but lacks some of the more advanced features of discord in its current state.

    Furthermore if you have a discord community and are worried about the future like myself, note that you can get discord/revolt bots which will clone content from your discord into your revolt. If you are worried about discords future, it may be wise to implement this now as an alternative backup.

      • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        For sure, in my case it is important to me as I am heavily involved with a lot of small streamer communities, and discord is the all-encompassing product which nearly all streamers use for announcements and updates, community projects, and sharing any non-stream content that is not a video.

        Depending on how this goes with discord, this could be incredibly damaging to so many of these communities and I would really hate to see that.

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      91·
      9 months ago

      If you’re on desktop: BetterDiscord. Supports plugins, and themes (I use an AMOLED theme), which make life so much nicer.

    • zeluko@kbin.social
      91·
      9 months ago

      discord web is a thing ya know…
      And we have webcord which is basically fancy discord web.

      • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        yea I’m not sure what the benefit is for the app compared to the website, I tried both and they seem identical except the app is using an older and less secure version of Chromium and in a separate process so it uses more RAM, and it doesn’t benefit from my browser extensions

        • exocrinous@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          The benefit is that it’s not situated inside your chrome user interface, with the toolbar and the tabs, so there’s more screen real estate. Also most people don’t know how to make desktop/startmenu shortcuts to web addresses.

          • sodalite@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            yup yup, i try to keep a clean, decluttered interface, and having all my browser stuff around the discord stuff is not a clean or enjoyable look. I’ll deal with it if it’s really the only way but I’ll try everything else first.

      • sodalite@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        true, but I don’t wanna have to log in every time I use it (I have my browsers set to clear cookies and history on close). If it’s the only way I’ll take the inconvenience, but trying to keep the startup process smooth if I can.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Discord has been driving me nuts with the constant communications and upselling of their nitro and other lame services. So much so that I am looking at alternatives for my VR theme park discord.

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    Is there a fediverse-like equivalent alternative to Discord?

    Is there a chat app that can be self hosted, but interact with a web of other instances, and has web, mobile, and app interfaces?

    Something with dm, group, voice chat, screen sharing capabilities?

    • Blxter@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      262·
      9 months ago

      I believe it’s called matrix. Only problem is there is no 0 percent chance I’ll convince anyone I play games with to switch off discord unless the ads hurt there frames lol.

      • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        9 months ago

        Thanks!

        I’ve been wanting to move off of discord for a while

        Discords been showing signs of Skype-ification for a while, and the ads seal the deal.

        I imagine the same feeling for a number of others too, I’ll be convincing my friends to switch.

        Fuck ads in my chat.

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        i bet they would move to another proprietary platform instead.

        and then act surprised when the next one enshittifies too. rinse repeat, as is tradition.

        • zeluko@kbin.social
          8·
          9 months ago

          Element because its the most feature complete.
          Element X is in development for mobile, not sure how far they are, but already works.

          • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I appreciate the suggestion. I’ve actually never been a big fan of Discord so finding something that’s a bit different will be nice.

        • Levsgetso@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          The site has all current clients so I’d recommend checking it. As for me, I use Element X. It’s not bad, the only annoying thing is that it’s always asking me to turn on chat backup but when I do it encounters an error. But besides this, it’s alright, it does everything I need it to do.

        • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I use element, I like the interface, and the option to opt into beta features. Though I did use Fractal for quite a while, since it is lighter than electron, and I usually use gnome so it integrates nicely. Though I can also recommend Nehko if you used irc a lot. It was my main irc client back in the day and I loved it, I just kinda fell off when everyone moved to Discord though I might switch back to it from Element at some point after the spec is more stable, Element is still the fastest way to get updates, and is pretty much the best mobile client.

    • RayJW@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      Your best chance at a proper replacement would be Revolt, however it is not in the fediverse sadly but still worth checking out IMHO.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Hey Discord, tell us how you don’t respect your users without actually saying it.