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in reply to @nicky's post:

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)

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

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.)

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.