ReFriender Discontinued

[Pixela]

You don't take investor money unless you aren't making enough money to do what you want to do.

Investors don't invest unless there is some plan to make 10 times more later, either selling the company or going public later.

Discord does not make enough money from optional nitro, there are bigger monetization plans ahead.

These are corporations and they want to be billionaires, they aren't running discord cause they like you.

Regardless, forums > discord for what forums do.

[Alhanelem]

You don't take investor money unless you aren't making enough money to do what you want to do.

Investors don't invest unless there is some plan to make 10 times more later, either selling the company or going public later.

Discord does not make enough money from optional nitro, there are bigger monetization plans ahead.

These are corporations and they want to be billionaires, they aren't running discord cause they like you.

Regardless, forums > discord for what forums do.

Discord isn't powered by investors. It's powered by the users as well as partnerships with other companies and such.

Money made is money made, it doesn't matter how they get it. Discord isn't being run by a megacorporation, it's a privatelly held company that is focused on one thing, its product.

People are absolutely subbing to nitro, and they keep adding new features to it to make it more enticing (like the recent super reactions, which i see people using all the time and since you have to have nitro to even follow with the same reaction, it shows that they're collecting quite a lot from it).

You're free to not like discord but you don't have to come up with bullpoop reasons for it. You keep acting like you have an MBA or something but the actual level of knowledge you're displaying definitely does not match up with that.

[Pixela]

I like Discord for the things I use it for, I just prefer forums for discussions.

We will see how Discord evolves over the coming years.

[BobbinT]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/c...ng-2021-09-16/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-d...-idUSKBN2BE320

both links already 2 years old, alot of things changes since then. Maybe giving a much more recent news to substantially backs up ur claims?

[Pixela]

Reddit is going public this year to make a ton of money for the owners, which is encouraging them to take actions to increase revenue, which is annoying the content creators that make the site profitable in the first place. As such they are all shutting off their subs, so nobody can access them.

Which is a prime example why you should not put all your eggs in one basket.

Who knows where reddit will go in the future now they are going public and want people to buy into their company, and reddit is responsible for replacing so many forums.

[BobbinT]

FF14 reddit already boycotting it by setting the channel private in which there would be no new user for time being & being directed to join their discord instead. Perhaps mimicking what Elon did with twitter which prompts how Refriender services got to end in 1st place.

Perhaps the feature should quickly adapt to a more popular social media channel instead. Even SE had made their own discord groups as well. Maybe they should try adapting similar feature with discord as well, seeing as even Sony themselves already in the way to integrate discord for their consoles as well.

From what I see, back when Refriender launched, already had doubts this would work since it only accept US region in 1st place, with twitter integration already posed their own problems, one of them being requires to register more personal info like mobile phones as main authentication. Can't really confirm if this happens on others, but at least it became requirement on my region due to government regulations. Personally even had to go to my own provider customer service due to my mobile won't get accepted as valid authentication, thankfully they managed to get the authentication works in the end albeit having in need to make new free emails just to make it working. All these only for enabling me to access SE customer service on twitter as well as joining their promo tweets.

[Alhanelem]

Reddit is going public this year to make a ton of money for the owners, which is encouraging them to take actions to increase revenue, which is annoying the content creators that make the site profitable in the first place. As such they are all shutting off their subs, so nobody can access them.

Which is a prime example why you should not put all your eggs in one basket.

Who knows where reddit will go in the future now they are going public and want people to buy into their company, and reddit is responsible for replacing so many forums.

Going public doesn't HAVE to mean screwing over your users. Discord has been doing it right. Not perfectly, mind you, as there were some rather ill concieved ventures like having a game store (why when virtually every Discord user has Steam?), but they aren't simply giving their userbase the finger for no good reason.

[Pixela]

The problem people have is positivity bias, they always think this new / other company is different. Omg reddit isn't like Twitter, and reddit isn't like Discord.

They are all the same, they endgoal is to be a billionaire by the time they are 50. They don't care about us, they don't care about the platform they will just to be billionaires.

Spez is really no different than Elon, and Elon is no different than whoever runs Discord. They all have the same endgame goals, to be a billionaire. They tell you the sweet little lies, they pander to your ideology to pretend they are one of you, they give you nice gifts to build trust and destroy competition.

The goal is money, going public is about money and people only want to invest if there is a good path to making far more money long term.

So yes going public does mean screwing over users, it's just how long till you get screwed. Name one company that went public that didn't goto crap in the following years, you can't cause the balance of power immediately moves form the users to the share holders lol

Consolidating communication around 2 for profit corporations with aspirations of being billionaires (just as happened with twitter btw, Jack is a billioanaire now and doesn't give a fk about twitter) is not a good idea. Cause you don't know where the company will be in 5 years.

The reason the blackout will do nothing is because a) there is really no alternatives now and b) muh 48 hours.

[Pixela]

Here is what the reddit blackout will usher in:

Spez will stop users being allowed to private any sub or delete it, he will also crack down on the power admins currently have.

This will happen slowly but it will happen, and the reason it will happen is because this time it's about money.

[Sp1cyryan]

Here is what the reddit blackout will usher in:

Spez will stop users being allowed to private any sub or delete it, he will also crack down on the power admins currently have.

This will happen slowly but it will happen, and the reason it will happen is because this time it's about money.

If only we had a Rooks-like figure here to scold you and your need to go off topic and wildly speculate in every thread.