Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

by CharlesW • 2 years ago

36 15 2 years ago

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jboogie77• 2 years ago

I hope the end is nigh for discord. Really is one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever used

artninja19882• 2 years ago

What's a better alternative? I'd need something with voice/ video chats and servers

blah-yeah• 2 years ago

IRC

...oh... voice/video?

...not IRC

longitudinal93• 2 years ago

Matrix will do all that

gentleman11• 2 years ago

Bonus points if it’s encrypted enough to not have to worry about being snooped, open source, and/or easy to use

anonym29• 2 years ago

rocket chat, mirotalk

opan• 2 years ago

IRC + Mumble remain king, but you could also try XMPP or Matrix.

gnabgib• 2 years ago

Discussion yesterday: [0] (47 points, 55 comments)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891263

01HNNWZ0MV43FF• 2 years ago

That reminds me, I was gonna add my girlfriend to my Matrix server.

lazypenguin• 2 years ago

Today in discord I got an ad for loot boxes. Every time I hovered over the ad blocking the bottom right of my screen it crashed. Everytine I played a YouTube video in the client it crashed. Every time I watched some screen share it crashed. Every time I shared screens it crashed. Discord has been mostly very nice for me but it’s a weird coincidence that when ads appeared the client became immediately less stable for me.

add-sub-mul-div• 2 years ago

It was an April Fools thing. Still annoying, but temporary.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]