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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 ( @henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English40•6 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 ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) English37•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…
- Igloojoe ( @Igloojoe@lemm.ee ) English4•6 months ago
That just sounds like april fools BS.
- MrMukagee ( @MrMukagee@lemmynsfw.com ) English4•6 months ago
Isn’t this micro transactions but with more steps
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English22•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.
- wahming ( @wahming@monyet.cc ) English7•6 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?
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English2•6 months ago
Revolt chat.
- wahming ( @wahming@monyet.cc ) English2•6 months ago
Interesting, that looks like it might actually be a viable alternative! Wish I had known about it a month ago.
- golden_zealot ( @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) English18•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.
- IninewCrow ( @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ) English17•6 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 ( @queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English21•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.
- CMDR_Horn ( @CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml ) English16•6 months ago
hahahaha, come to steam voice chat. it kinda sucks. but at least it’s not discord
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.
- sodalite ( @sodalite@slrpnk.net ) English13•6 months ago
Really hoping adblockers for discord become a thing
- zeluko ( @zeluko@kbin.social ) 5•6 months ago
discord web is a thing ya know…
And we have webcord which is basically fancy discord web.- Die4Ever ( @Die4Ever@programming.dev ) English4•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 ) English2•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.
- Fubarberry ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) English10•6 months ago
Here’s the archive copy of the page, to bypass the paywall:
- Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 9•6 months ago
Revolt, as a Discord alternative, looks very promising.
- dutchkimble ( @dutchkimble@lemy.lol ) English2•6 months ago
Wouldn’t nextdns help block these kinda ads?