I’ve been using Discord almost since launch, and in that time, not a single feature did I find as an important addition to the program. It is now much more bloated with unnecessary stuff, stuff for which they paid those talented devs you mention.
I would have been perfectly content with a one-time payment to use it and it would have worked perfectly well for them with that model if they didn’t get greedy and want to stuff it with random junk to justify a subscription.
I don’t mind paying as long as it’s not a subscription scam for no reason at all.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the Discord Nitro subscription has been around for a long while. From what I’ve seen using the platform it seems relatively popular. I’d guess adding ads to the free tier is as much about enticing people onto the subscription (which presumably won’t have ads).
tlf@feddit.de 2 months ago
Ubtil they go to the Netflix model where users can experience both a subscription and ads at the same time.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I doubt it. Video ads are worth a lot more. Unless they ad them to live streams Twitch style.
tlf@feddit.de 2 months ago
That would be absolutely terrible
Diotima@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
And Nitro isn’t exactly inexpensive either, or wasn’t last time I used Discord.