They could’ve just made it donations, or made less of the features require premium.
Stoat and Matrix do fine with that model
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 11 hours ago
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 hours 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 2 hours ago
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 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 5 hours ago
y’know, yeah, I’ve been convinced by ye and others, fluxer also feels like it’s not a complete chambles too
fishos@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Well lots of ways but immediately adding a paid subscription should be a HUGE RED FLAG. Donations, one time payments, etc are fine. Paywalling features from the get go is bullshit tho. And the fact that discord got away with turning normal features into paid ones for years is insulting and laughable. Using custom emojis being locked behind nitro when fucking MSN messenger has that is a sad example of how far we’ve fallen.
Any replacement candidate that’s just “discord from a few versions ago” can go fuck itself. Discord was a.blightnupon the Internet and it’s downfall should be celebrated, not “hey anyone have a clone of this piece of shit? I want something still shitty, just not this shitty”.