Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
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Revolt is also a great open source alternative that I tried and would recommend
I just installed it after I ran into it on some other Lemmy comment. I was hoping to replace discord with it.
- clicking on a voice room doesn't actual join it. You still need to dial in
- I can't see who is currently in/using the voice room.
- doesnt seem to remember me granting mic access
- doesn't seem to support screen sharing
It just feels like it isn't "there" just yet? Unless I'm missing something?
If I showed it to friends of mine today and they had my experience I'm sure they'd go back to discord.
Not hating on the devs though. The product itself seems to be coming along nicely.
Yes, it definitely has missing features in comparison to Discord but I think it has potential. It may be useful to submit requests on Github.
If it helps, I'm pretty sure the devs are in the process of rewriting the UI on a private repo. Idk if there's any eta or progress chart
Writing code in private and then throwing it over the wall to the public is usually a pretty huge red flag with projects that are already public.
It is just as centralized and has a tendency to ban people for poor reasons
It's way better than Matrix
No E2EE for DMs, groups, or notes.
That's going to be the deal breaker for most.
Matrix is far too slow for what it's intended to be. I'd certainly like to see E2EE come to Revolt.
I don't think it's good as Matrix in terms of privacy and security but I think it's better as an alternative to Discord