Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down
Submitted 5 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/654594/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam-sakhnini
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
doorknob88@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m a lazy dev and want to get ahead of this, where should I post my updates?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Back in ye olden days you’d have your own website, a blog, or maybe a forum. It was indexable on Google and anyone could see and interact with your updates. If not for that there’s always steam.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Github (and alternatives), Fediverse, Reddit, Matrix
merde@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
rss?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
…bluesky?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
RSS
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Lol “once Duscord enshittifies”. Bro… It happened years ago.
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It was never good from the start, as a voice chat program, it’s miles behind ts3 and mumble, never liked discord, isn’t that what gamer pedo’'s use to get in contact with younger kids anyway?
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
lol what, Discord enshittified years ago.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hopefully they move to element
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s hard to leave because it’s easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.
Soggy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t want more apps, I want to return to
monkeearly 2000s web forums.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yea I saw the writing on the wall years ago. Why do I want a fucking client to talk to mass people. That is a shit format for more than like 6 people in a room.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
It’s basically an old school chat room at that point.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Mutual hostage taking, you can’t leave because everyone is there, and they can’t leave because you’re there.
Only collective action can be organized to break this social trap. The easiest way is to require the garden’s walls pulled down.
But I’d be fine putting down the executive
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Where the fuck are we gonna go?
riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I dunno. There’s probably a discord group that discussed it but you are not in it so I guess you won’t ever know.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it’s actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
You could go to matrix
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Forums. Lemmy. Group Chats.
What does discord do that these dont bar create a barrier for use?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
IRC is basically all the chat portions of discord.
stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
“this hill was so easy to walk down, why is it so hard to walk up it?”
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Fuck IPO imminent
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it’s not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.
I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.
Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That’s all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The names escaping me but there’s a site you can use that turns your discord into a publicly accessible website / archive.
Check out mautrix-discord too if you’re a server admin, you can puppet everything there and switch seamlessly.
malloc@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Mora@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Humam - like human, but not really.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Rob Zombie: More Humam than hu-man! He left Activisiioooonnnn!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Kind of like how Marcus Persson was almost a person?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
they’re gonna make it a million times worse putting the activision blizzard guy in charge.
andxz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Please tell me you’re joking. I was just beginning to like some of the discord communities I’ve joined over the years.
Fuck that guy, seriously. Activision already ruined WoW, which I sincerely liked a lot for a very long time.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
sadly no it was mentioned in here: theverge.com/…/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam…
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
fyi discord had been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hey bruh u wanna buy nitro bruh. It’s the new shit bruh
Psythik@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
What the fuck does Nitro even do, other than give you some useless emoji?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
its gonna enshittify
Dumhuvud@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Let’s be real, the enshitification started quite some time ago. Though I do expect it to get much worse.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wait, there’s actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
“working” lol. He’s the founder and CEO, he collects most of the money.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
A bitter end for this lemon.
malloc@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.
Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Maybe he was out of juice
midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 5 weeks ago
Uh oh.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Big uh oh. We had a good run though
Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I get ads in my discord now. Revolt, Matrix, thats your queue.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Cue, unless you want them to get in line to do the same thing.
scala@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Are those any good or better than guilded?
truxnell@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Where am I moving my friends group? Revolt is nice but not quite ready for primetime / getting a rewrite, and I’ve always been iffy about matrix. Is a signal group chat literally where we’re heading to!?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Why iffy about matrix? You could always use mumble or teamspeak still
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
While matrix/element is still very much in development, it is improving constantly. A year ago i sometimes had issues with desynced encryption keys and now that never happens anymore. There is now a modern group call and screensharing system and the new ElementX mobile app which is much faster than the old app. Now there is also OIDC and in a few weeks QR code login will be released, so no more manually entering login and encryption key verification stuff.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What’s wrong with matrix/element? We started running our own server for our household group chats and it has been solid.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There guess the chat app.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Uh oh.
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 weeks ago
LLMs are about to get a whole lot more edgelord.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Does revolt have screen share with audio? What about noise filter?
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
What a lemon!!!
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it’s gonna get real shitty, real fast.
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
lennee@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
teamspeak are also stepping up their game ive heard
vinyl@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Matrix is still pretty jank
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!
… For the pilot.
Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!
SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I feel like it’s been shitty for a decade… personal view though, clearly people like it
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.
drspod@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It’s the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
From a functional perspective it’s fantastic but it doesn’t make up for the incessant ads (even if you pay) and the lack of any privacy whatsoever.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It isn’t even a decade old… anyway, it got market share for a reason. It was immediately a big step up from other free offerings in ease of use, UI, and eventually in features too.
mlg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Revolt?
firebyte@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
revolt.chat
It’s open source too.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh wow, it can get shittier?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Welcome to Discord, brought to you by Jake Paul’s PRIME!
drink verification can to log in
Psythik@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don’t understand the problem why people dont use it
boonhet@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
I already left, enjoy it for me.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Mumble?