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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)
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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 122 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bullshit. Its on a quest to monetize the platform, thats all its doing.

If it wanted to be a better communication platform it wouldnt be adding all this pointless superfluous shit that exists only for nickle and diming.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago

Yeah the app is bloated as shit

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And somehow making the UI worse every single update. HOW?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Taking lessons from Valve and steam, I suspect.

I genuinely don't understand how these companies go "Okay, we have a very elegant, simple, sleek, and fast interface here..Heres what we should do, we should completely fuck it up, make it slower, and make it require more resources for absolutely no reason"

[–] lambda@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

Is this an old meme? They revamped their UI and I think it's (Steam) very intuitive now. I do remember when they had like 10 different styles of drop-down box on the desktop app. But, I don't see that now.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's just paycheck justification. "Look we did something, we are useful"

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

As long as they allow for free streaming and file sharing, they will need to monetize. That stuff gets real expensive real fast.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, it is a company that employs people that gives away its product for free. Aside from Nitro, would you like them to monetize your personal info and sell it to 3rd parties?

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think they don't? How can we be sure when their motive is profit?

[–] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

They literally do. Discord is google adservices integrated.