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Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by wink »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #57
wink wrote: post #47

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> Simply having an account there normalizes It's long been normalized, Discord has already won. I'm not saying that it's great, but for certain communities you don't have a choice, besides not participating. It's actually even worse than back then, when it was "everyone has WhatsApp" because you could easily contact the people otherwise, you already had their number. But imho personal conversations are not the draw f…

Everyone having WhatsApp turned out to not be so bad. It has end-to-end encryption just like signal. Proven in courts.

I still know a ton of people who would've completely sworn off Facebook and Instagram, and only stayed because of WhatsApp.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by itomato »

userbinator wrote: post #7

Currently, Discord doesn’t appear to validate on their servers whether the stream being transmitted truly adheres to the criteria of a non-subscribed user I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake.

The use of Discord itself could be argued as “a very novice mistake.”

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by toastal »

hinata08 wrote: post #55
pndy wrote: post #25

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From my experiences discord servers tends to draw people who are least interested in talking about the project and more about casual talk and sharing memes. Most of the time these places feels like an equivalent of shoutbox feature on old forums. Still, I received more support via discord than forums which on the other hand seems to be mostly full of people who vent their complexes and issues on users and lock discus…

Matrix isn't better than Discord on that aspect. There are the anime communities already, so it's not just about projects. Also, on Discord, you can have pretty serious discussions and organise your projects. But it's never done in #general : you need to create specific rooms where users focus. The shoutout function is at the heart of the group on Discord. But Discord won users in the first place by allowing them to…

And Matrix is currently too heavy to self-host which means relying on Matrix.org (who also controls the spec).

My vote would be an XMPP MUC that’s bridged to IRC. This keeps it lightweight & decentralized. Both of these options could be ran with hundreds or thousands of users on a potato compared to Matrix.

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by toastal »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #57
wink wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Simply having an account there normalizes It's long been normalized, Discord has already won. I'm not saying that it's great, but for certain communities you don't have a choice, besides not participating. It's actually even worse than back then, when it was "everyone has WhatsApp" because you could easily contact the people otherwise, you already had their number. But imho personal conversations are not the draw f…

Everyone having WhatsApp turned out to not be so bad. It has end-to-end encryption just like signal. Proven in courts.

There’s issue with metadata & the requirement of sharing one’s address book to use WhatsApp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it too like Signal required users have a Android/iOS primary device & a phone number or you can’t use the service which has privacy implications but also feeds the mobile OS duopoly as you can’t choose another OS (or to just not have a phone).

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by xethos »

MRtecno98 wrote: post #80
nextlevelwizard wrote: post #24

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You either didn't read what I wrote or misunderstood. My point was exactly: how many people want to go through all of this AND would instead pay IF this route wasn't available? a 12 year old without money won't pay for your service no matter what you do, so does it matter if you let them "hack it" for free?

Yes because you spend more money providing him with a better service(e.g. 60fps streaming which is noticeably more expensive to run)

What happens if they turn 25 and have grown to expect the nice features? They have more money, less time, and can be a beacon for their peers of "James used to get it for free, now even he pays"

I'd consider it similar to Adobe's old model (easy to crack, but converts to paying customers in a few years)

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by lelanthran »

stavros wrote: post #71
chefandy wrote: post #28

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> I wonder who thought that would be a good implementation. Client-side validation seems like a very novice mistake. As someone who only sends up PRs containing complete features in their final state implemented exactly as I hoped, I have no idea. Unrelated aside: just started my fifth new job this month. I never seem to jibe with project managers.

Five jobs in a month? At least you interview great!

Meh. I had 5 jobs last month alone.

Of course, I am a contractor...

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by WhrRTheBaboons »

rvnx wrote: post #59
SSLy wrote: post #53

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There are even people like me, who have Nitro and still use modded client for different reasons.

Being able to delete your previous messages in bulk is a very good reason for example, it's borderline (or completely ?) illegal to threaten users to ban them if they choose to use their right to mass-delete their previous messages.

illegal in EU (unless they provide some other option to comply with GDPR)

Re: Unlocking Discord Nitro features for free

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Post by WhrRTheBaboons »

mdwalters wrote: post #17
viraptor wrote: post #3

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Discord is happy to ban people for anything. They even stop people for using alternative clients. If you care about your account, do not mess with discord.

I used gtkcord4, and I didn't get banned. I used Vencord, didn't get banned either. Of course, I wouldn't reccommend using any of these for the saftey of your account, as I was dumb back then and never learned about the risks. --- Also, one Discord alternative I would reccommend is Revolt[1]. Great community, and was famous for being featured in a No Text To Speech video (and my friend's server had a brief cameo too!…

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