In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app. 

Discord didn’t initially share a release date, or even how they’re going to implement ads into Discord’s overall design, other than mentioning that the sponsored quests would “tastefully” be integrated. 

A report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Discord’s sponsored quests will be landing on the platform this week, and will be displayed at the bottom left of the app.

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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.

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  • [+] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

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

    I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad's off in settings.

    They are optional. For now.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Haha April fools, right? Right??

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will "show up tastefully in Discord".

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  • [+] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Time to fire up the vent server

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Please drink a verification can to continue.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Switch to Revolt? Anyone got alternatives?

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

    The nice thing about federation is we no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.

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

    Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor

    Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.

    It's easy for people to deal with BS when they're thinking it's the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that...

    Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    RIP Discord

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    U BLOCK ORIGIN ACTIVATED

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature

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