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- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- discordapp
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.
Revenue is not the same as income. Maintaining cross-platform apps and hosting nearly a decade of messages and media attachments is gonna eat into that. Also, Discord is in fact a private company.
Correct. I did not locate a source for their expenses or profit margin. If someone can provide, I would be happy to update.
Google says storage is cheap. This is solely for profit.
That’s not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord’s scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages