How… Do you think projects get seed money? Like do you think daddy bezo just appears from thin air to grant people endless wealth to work on major projects?
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Why are they already selling a Discord Nitro equivalent for an unfinished Beta???
This feels like a bad sign to me
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
They could’ve just made it donations, or made less of the features require premium.
Stoat and Matrix do fine with that model
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Stoat and Matrix do fine with that model.
Having checked a year ago and checking again now, their UX has barely improved and the GUI is still significantly worse than Discord. They need a monetization strategy and leadership that isn’t a shitshow so that they can make something that people will actually want to use.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
qarbone@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean, there’s literally a job title called “investor”,
Why are we acting like investors are a good thing now? Maybe they don’t want a single revenue source to present undue influence on development. If their revenue is entirely supported by their premium model, if they make a decision bad for the community, money dries up. You think Discord would be doing dumb shit like this, if they weren’t floatinf off investors and whatever Palantir is throwing at them?
Of all the things to complain about, the fact that people can pay to have an animated avatar or screenshare in 4K, a resolution that a super-minority of people even have a monitor that can render, is baffling.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
y’know, yeah, I’ve been convinced by ye and others, fluxer also feels like it’s not a complete chambles too
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Because people don’t like to donate
tb_@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m actually cool with projects being sustainable from the start, rather than hyper scaling off private equity funding before gutting features and selling them back at a later date.
Revolt/Stoat not talking about paid options at all on their main page makes me more suspicious, if anything.