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in reply to @nicky's post:
it was good for a long time but the enshittification set in a few years back
Eh, I would call this stage feature creep, not enshittification
The core functionality (text and voice chat) still works as well as when it launched/has even improved in some senses (for some use cases, the thread and "forum" functionalities are genuinely useful)
They're "returning to a focus on gamers" after abandoning it for a few years there, presumably because they have worse taste and will tolerate this.
my theory is that like every other company, their investors want growth even after the massive market saturation they gained from the early pandemic, so after abandoning to gamers to expand their audience, they only had one demographic left to capture: gamers who all went to Guilded instead for those two years
And yet Roblox requiring Roblox accounts for Guilded now is doing that work for them already loll
lmao the FAQ
Q. i don't use roblox at all what is going on. can i just use the chat please
A. We see you and hear you. Also no, and fuck you
I don't know why I'm focused on this when there's so much bad about it, but I can't get over "two months". They won't even let you keep the jpeg
this is what made me post it hoenstly. the absolutle gall to treat this as a cool gift lmao
I guess we're in the "desperately try to monetize" stage of the cycle. I wonder what the next big chat app will be. (Given the current federal funds rate I do actually wonder if we'll see this cycle continue though.)
as much as all of this kills me i think ill take it if it stops there from just being actual banner ads like skype ended up having
For me that isn't as annoying as a Nitro ad being the first thing I see after booting up my computer.
discord is sticking around not because its a good chat app but because it's easier to run than phpbb was. people want community hubs and discord built a platform for them. but like we all agree this is a poor substitute for real forums, right? where can I send my disposable income to have someone write better forum software and user guides??
i think the big issue is people don't like forums anymore. chat apps are faster and have more immediate rewards (answers, reactions, etc) so the costs (loss of information, too many channels, hard to lurk, etc) are ignored or not noticed.
All information going through Discord sucks, actually. It's fucking impossible.
Oh I agree, lmao, I fucking hate discord and slack and all these chat apps.
At least slack is somewhat searchable and, ideally, someone else's problem if it fails to fill it's role.
The problem is when it becomes a replacement for a KB....
As, apparently, the one guy who thought Skype was fine, man this sucks
Cuz they were good but then they got too big for their britches and Descent Of Entropy hit them.
I am ready to change to pretty much any Privacy and/or FOSS alternative if anyone I know ever wants to as well. I got 'em all, mostly unused.