They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    154·
    7 months ago

    I assume that’s sarcasm, but no, they almost certainly aren’t anywhere near probably from nitro subscriptions. I don’t know how many employees they have, but they surely have a lot of developers working on all their features. And that cloud server time isn’t cheap either, especially when you’re handling video.

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        271·
        7 months ago

        There’s some weird corporate obsession with always constantly “innovating” and “improving”. Adding complexity for the sake of complexity. Completely blind and oblivious to the fact that most consumers actually want something consistent that just does what they ask it to without much fuss, not just additional complexity.

        Discord has added probably a hundred features since I started using it- ultimately, the only things I ever touch in the app are the same set of 5 that existed back in 2015 when I switched. Text, voice, basic file and image sharing, group servers, and (after they added it) video+screen sharing. Literally everything else is total fluff.

        • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          7 months ago

          Yup, it’s sometimes called box-checking. “Look boss, I did a thing.”

          Often a thing nobody wanted or asked for.