Gamers don’t even seem to be the main issue… they mostly use it as a voice-chat app to replace Teamspeak/Ventrilo and will happily move to something else if Discord ever decides to try and monetize their service (hopefully by then Mumble will work well in the browser).
The bigger problem are people like the Rust community that do all their development communication though Discord and will be totally vendor locked in the future.
They have more than 600 staff and just got another half billion USD in VC funding. I highly doubt that they actually make a profit right now, but there are no good public figures on that.
Gamers don’t have it in them to care about the nuance of privacy, or their future well being. Just look at them, the console gamers buy into a dystopian walled garden, and PC gamers aren’t too far behind, dealing with Microsoft’s control subverting spyware of an operating system. I don’t see this group making smart moves for themselves.
IMO gamers are like this because, throughout the years, they have been slowly desensitized through more and more agressive practices: starting with “please don’t redistribute” and ending with literal rootkits
Someone tell this to gamers.
Gamers don’t even seem to be the main issue… they mostly use it as a voice-chat app to replace Teamspeak/Ventrilo and will happily move to something else if Discord ever decides to try and monetize their service (hopefully by then Mumble will work well in the browser).
The bigger problem are people like the Rust community that do all their development communication though Discord and will be totally vendor locked in the future.
What. Discord is monetized.
Lol, not even close. They are still burning through investor funds AFAIK.
They were making $130 million two years ago. They’re gonna do anything beyond just add on to their current system.
What are their expenses?
They have more than 600 staff and just got another half billion USD in VC funding. I highly doubt that they actually make a profit right now, but there are no good public figures on that.
servers and programmers. neither are free.
I’m about to generalize…
Gamers don’t have it in them to care about the nuance of privacy, or their future well being. Just look at them, the console gamers buy into a dystopian walled garden, and PC gamers aren’t too far behind, dealing with Microsoft’s control subverting spyware of an operating system. I don’t see this group making smart moves for themselves.
#notallgamers don’t @ me.
IMO gamers are like this because, throughout the years, they have been slowly desensitized through more and more agressive practices: starting with “please don’t redistribute” and ending with literal rootkits