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

  •  Gork   ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) English
    37•6 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   ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English
    22•6 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.

  •  golden_zealot   ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English
    18•6 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.

    •  Queue   ( @queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
      21•6 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.

    •  Blxter   ( @Blxter@lemmy.zip ) OPEnglish
      10•6 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.

      •  Die4Ever   ( @Die4Ever@programming.dev ) English
        4•6 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

      •  sodalite   ( @sodalite@slrpnk.net ) English
        2•6 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.