To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room's history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.
But the sooner Electron dies the better, there is literally only one Electron based program that works well and that is VS Code, but you've got to blame Microsoft for being so incompetent that they never even set the standard for a desktop UI after years of monopoly that people turned to just mushing Chrome into a box.
I really like Trilium Notes as a Joplin/Obsidian alternative!
I don't know if this really is as harmful an enshiftification as we've come to expect from other projects, it mainly seems to be allowing you to have a "patreon" or "gumroad" type project tied to your actual community. There's an argument that the centralization is harmful in the long run when everything goes belly-up but this move in a vacuum seems like a logical next step for Discord itself
honestly as long as the stuff that discord is monetizing stays additive instead of changing services we already use to be paid-for, I really don't mind if discord gives creators (and, by way of that, themselves) ways to generate revenue. Discord, even as a completely free service, is really far ahead of other similar platforms and offerings. I don't expect them to be 100% consumer-first at the expense of generating profits (as much as i wish it were feasible for them to be), but the ways in which they've done that so far have been surprisingly unobtrusive.
I was boosting my server so everyone could use animated emojis. Thing is, people now have to be Nitro subscriber to use them. There has been no warning. I really don’t like those manners of making things that once were “free” premium features.
animated emojis were never under server boosting as far as I know? I can't think of a feature that Discord has made paid that was once free outside of trial periods... ever (with the possible exception of gamewisp emojis which I believe we should discount)
Back in the day Discord’s advantage was that it provided a way for people to set up a voice communication server with push-to-talk without any technical knowledge and for free. I don’t know how they’re ahead of competition now… I don’t know what their killer features are.
I use it occasionally but there are a few problems that always drive me away . 1) I have muted all the servers but I still get occasional sound notifications and just cannot find any source for them, might be a bug 2) there is no global notification history. To me that seems like a must-have feature and I don’t know how people stand to use discord without it 3) ui feels very clunky. To me it seems like I spend way too much time navigating through the ui and searching for things. For example, scrolling through the servers and trying to remember which icon was which. Anyway, I would be interested in hearing why people do use it besides everybody being there.
1 is definitely a bug, I'm in like 50 servers and I don't have that happen like ever. 3 I can't dispute, but I think that's largely because they've increased their feature set for different kinds of users faster than their UI team has been able to accommodate for them. Better sorting for servers would be amazing
2, there definitely is. On mobile it's the bell icon at the bottom when you pull out the sidebar, on desktop it's the icon that looks like a desk tray at the top right, they let you see notifications either from the active server or globally, so idk what you mean.
Personally, I see Revolt as more likely to win out if/when Discord collapses than Matrix. I've only heard Matrix discussed on platforms within the fediverse, whereas Revolt I've heard some rumblings about by others who haven't touched anything like Mastodon or Lemmy/Kbin in their lives.
Either way, I'd be glad to see more FOSS win out over yet capital controlled social media.
I know Ence is one team in CSGO who’s generating profits. They are a smaller orgs that has in game success.
I think the issue is you have some teams full of venture money that inflates the salaries and makes it super hard for other teams to have in game success while not going broke.
That being said my suggestion for csgo (it’s only scene I follow) would be leagues line in traditional sports. Each team plays a game every week and you have playoffs at the end of the year. Put those league games on your own platform and have people pay a subscription to watch. I would pay up to 100$/year (I’m aware I’m the exception). With this model you might even be able to have a few hubs where games are played at a small venue in front of paying crowd. I could imagine a few hubs where teams would move to to play regularly. Something like: New York, Rio, Malta, Copenhagen, Moscow
I think one of the biggest problem is demographics, the younger generations that’s in eSports is broke. No eSports fan is going to buy a Dodge RAM (using this as an example because traditional sports are littered with pick up ads and the car industry is a huge advertiser because they need to constantly gaslight people into thinking that driving isn’t a chore)
Damn bro I agree with your gaming takes but what’s your problem with cars? They let us go anywhere and they zoom zoom. And they look cool. How is that a chore?
To be fair, he bought the esports team in an attempt to save the league and the sport as a whole. He was well aware that it was on the verge of collapse. It’s a passion project for him, something to spend his streaming money on.
Disguised toast seems like a really good dude tbh, didn’t know about him until he got into esports but he’s really been a breath of fresh air for that scene.
I know Todd is kind of a silly guy and people have mixed opinions on him. But it will be pretty weird to be in a gaming industry without him. Like him or not dude is a legend
He’s 52, if it takes 8 years before ES6 comes out He’ll be 60. If they milk this one as hard as they did Skyrim he’ll be long dead before ES7. Hell, I might be dead before ES7
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