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Thinking back on it all, we witnessed a decades-long trajectory of functionality previously found in multiple apps being concentrated into one app. This is interpreted as โ€œprogressโ€, which is certainly convenient for the company able to bring everyone under one umbrella.

The UNIX philosophy involves lots of small tools that do their jobs well. I often wonder if what it will take is simply saying, "no," and going back to those separate apps that give us so much more control, even if it's more inconvenient.

I just miss IRC, okay?


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Some decisions Discord has done is why I personally am not convinced to buy Discord Nitro, even though they are trying so hard to push it in your face, by implementing new features blocked behind by a paywall. It starts to slowly feel like Nitro users have become a noticeably higher priority over the majority of the userbase, and it's starting to feel like they've been becoming more desperate for profit.

There's a few other things I'd also point out that bug me about Discord:

  • they're often trying too hard to fit within the average younger audience, trying too hard to sound funny, often ending up just being annoying to read or listen to
  • them sometimes turning flawed features in an inside joke, which is often insulting towards the people who use them. Light mode used to be a good example - if it's bad and its contrast hurts people's eyes, I don't know... how about you fucking fix it instead of spitting people in their faces?
  • that one attempt last year, when they tried to sneak in crypto support. Remember how hard that backfired?
  • their app has gotten noticeably worse in terms of performance. The PC version works fine for the most part, but the mobile port is so laggy sometimes, and when I open it on my phone, it's literally unuseable for the first 30 seconds upon launch
  • cutting back on features from Nitro Classic (which has been turned into Nitro Basic), and while it's a little bit cheaper, it doesn't have nearly as much features, and people who have been using Classic beforehand, can still auto-renew it for as long as they don't cancel the subscription. This is not just scummy towards newer members, but also feels like a double standard to me
  • also can we talk about how overpriced Nitro is? For real, I can buy a regular Netflix subscription for less money, and Nitro only has some minor aesthetic perks and other random features.
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