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Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 127 points 2 years ago (11 children)

It's not like the management has let people, who still work there, add or fix anything. It's been nothing but Nitro promos, and animated profiles. Huge shame that people got laid off like this

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    "Heres your hourly reminder to rent worthless garbage we want you to pay monthy for, per server"

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  • [+] -22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    God forbid they offer goods and services in exchange for money

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The market decides. And the market seems to have decided that their goods and services are not worth exchanging for money.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Discord is one of the few companies that don't shove 3rd party ads down your throat. But they do advertise the hell out of nitro. And yeah, I don't find nitro interesting enough to pay that much.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I pay for it.

    The cost is worth the extra quality when working with others over screenshare etc. The community management features are useful. A large portion of my workflow is aided by discord and GitHub, both of whi h I pay for premium features.

    I don't expect them to provide these services for free considering the huge boost they give to productivity. Expecting them to be free is naive.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    I would if their features worked consistently for me. If I'm paying a monthly subscription, the app better not have major bugs in the key features I use. With my hardware configuration, screensharing is a blurry stuttery mess, their mobile app is a complete shitshow that can't even layout elements correctly or display the correct channel without having to restart the app every few seconds.

    It doesn't help that their support seems to be ignoring reports of these issues from people.

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