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The genie is out of the bottle and discord is unfortunately here to stay for the foreseeable future. What we need are good reliable tools to export all this data to an external service / knowledge base. At least that way they could be picked up by web search and be accessible without a discord account one day down the line when discord goes to shit.
i'm surprised discord has managed to last this long without turning to shit.
seriously, it's 2023 and the service is still free without ads. their entire revenue stream is built on people subscribing to nitro.
i hope it stays like this but enshittification feels inevitable these days.
only if you have a very strict definition of Ad
i’ve never seen ads in discord. they have no advertising program.
no i don’t count those blurbs in the settings menu telling you about features that come with nitro. discord doesn’t get paid for those.
"promotions" telling me to play a certain game on stream in discord (and get some cosmetic item for it) are ads for that game. I don't have a screenshot of it on hand, unfortunately.
I've never seen that before, but I have discord rich presence turned off.
https://www.pcgamer.com/discord-is-doing-reverse-twitch-drops/
They've also done it with Halo and Fortnite that I've seen.
I get ads for nitro since I've moved off of it. It will pop up to try to get me to go back at a cheaper rate and I've had a few times where it was free to start again. Now they've rolled out a server store we'll see more ads.
I became a Nitro subscriber pretty early specifically because I hope it helps them not enshittify their product… :(