Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees - eviltoast
  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The market decides. And the market seems to have decided that their goods and services are not worth exchanging for money.

    • vynlwombat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Discord is one of the few companies that don’t shove 3rd party ads down your throat. But they do advertise the hell out of nitro. And yeah, I don’t find nitro interesting enough to pay that much.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        I used to occasionally pay for nitro due to the same reasons and the decent privacy policy–until they changed it early last year (or was it '22?) There I did a 180 and am anti-Discord now.

    • stom@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I pay for it.

      The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.

      I don’t expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.