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A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by hmokiguess »

Ekaros wrote: post #24
hmokiguess wrote: post #11

Please please please someone take over discord and their use base. Their nitro and ads is the most toxic nonsense stuff I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I am in a niche market with both new gen workers and customers and discord is a really important medium to engage and connect with them. My soul dies every time I am there dealing with all sorts of psychological traps and baits to more spending coupled w…

I have never seen true need to get Nitro. Missing on some things but if someone wants to pay for it let them. Big question is how else would they make money? Monetise hosting "servers" directly? Would they have even gotten community if they did that?

Do you have or use Discord for work? E.g. streaming, many calls, etc. Only nitro lets you do those.

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by hmokiguess »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #23
hmokiguess wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly it. A lot of users are likely emotionally attached and trapped to their Nitro garbage and feel like they "invested" far into the cult by now. Giving them a way out is important if you want to acquire that market.

Man, the Nitro stuff is garbage, but it's bizarre that you're equating the ENTIRE UI to that. It's really not that obtrusive. I don't like it either but it's like 0.5% of the UI

Fair point, opinions are not truth. That said there are lots of mods out there for it with substantial (many millions) of users where their entire reason for existing is taking control of the UI.

What happens to building protocols? I am totally against being a slave to PaaS.

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by hresvelgr »

adzm wrote: post #19
hmokiguess wrote: post #11

Please please please someone take over discord and their use base. Their nitro and ads is the most toxic nonsense stuff I have ever had the displeasure to work with. I am in a niche market with both new gen workers and customers and discord is a really important medium to engage and connect with them. My soul dies every time I am there dealing with all sorts of psychological traps and baits to more spending coupled w…

There is so little advertising on discord that I find it hilarious you are so upset about a few notifications here and there about nitro and other aesthetic perks which are basically entirely optional

There are 3rd party ads in Discord now, and they are probably going to expand as an ad platform. I think this is what the parent comment was upset about.

edit: grammar

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by Ekaros »

hmokiguess wrote: post #31
Ekaros wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never seen true need to get Nitro. Missing on some things but if someone wants to pay for it let them. Big question is how else would they make money? Monetise hosting "servers" directly? Would they have even gotten community if they did that?

Do you have or use Discord for work? E.g. streaming, many calls, etc. Only nitro lets you do those.

Thankfully my company uses Teams. So I don't need Discord for that. As non-nitro uses it works fine for text chat.

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

#39

Post by axus »

theturtletalks wrote: post #14
LorenDB wrote: post #4

Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI.

Have you tried Chatto[0]? Seems to be an open-source Slack and Discord alternative with a nice UI. 0. https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto

The screenshot looks identical to Discord?

Re: A Discord Alternative – Echoed

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Post by jimmygrapes »

Yeah ok.

2025 to 2026 full of slop signals, LLC reg number from April 2026 to the same address in multiple reports as ultra scammy:

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/30-n-gould-st-sheridan-wy-scam...

https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/local/another-scam-rec...

https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/scammers-use-reg...

Lot of other red flags for me but those are even more vibe-based than everything about this.

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