In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app.

Discord didn’t initially share a release date, or even how they’re going to implement ads into Discord’s overall design, other than mentioning that the sponsored quests would “tastefully” be integrated.

A report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Discord’s sponsored quests will be landing on the platform this week, and will be displayed at the bottom left of the app.

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    1 year ago

    Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.

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      1 year ago

      God what is it with every social media app sucking hot fucking garbage despite being the most popular way to access it?. Especially if the app was bearable and progressively got worse.

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    1 year ago

    I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad’s off in settings.

    They are optional. For now.

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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will “show up tastefully in Discord”.

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    1 year ago

    Time to enter the Matrix haha… just maybe not that Matrix server… a different Matrix server.

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    1 year ago

    I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.

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        1 year ago

        The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.

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          1 year ago

          Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.

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            1 year ago

            frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor

            Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.

            It’s easy for people to deal with BS when they’re thinking it’s the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that…

            Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao

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      1 year ago

      There’s no good discord alternatives with all the features unfortunately. It’s a wait and see type of thing.

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          1 year ago

          Is that worse than discord? Genuine question, I’m too old for roblox so I have no clue…

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            1 year ago

            Hmm. They’re the same? None is better. Better use something else like Revolt or Matrix. Though Revolt is more like Discord whereas Matrix lacks features.

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    1 year ago

    If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature

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      1 year ago

      They definitely just wrote that to make it go down easier. They aren’t running ads for games out of the goodness of their hearts