In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

    • @fluckx
      21•8 months ago

      I just installed it after I ran into it on some other Lemmy comment. I was hoping to replace discord with it.

      • clicking on a voice room doesn’t actual join it. You still need to dial in
      • I can’t see who is currently in/using the voice room.
      • doesnt seem to remember me granting mic access
      • doesn’t seem to support screen sharing

      It just feels like it isn’t “there” just yet? Unless I’m missing something?

      If I showed it to friends of mine today and they had my experience I’m sure they’d go back to discord.

      Not hating on the devs though. The product itself seems to be coming along nicely.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•8 months ago

        If it helps, I’m pretty sure the devs are in the process of rewriting the UI on a private repo. Idk if there’s any eta or progress chart

        • @[email protected]
          1•8 months ago

          Writing code in private and then throwing it over the wall to the public is usually a pretty huge red flag with projects that are already public.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      It is just as centralized and has a tendency to ban people for poor reasons