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Discord isn't on your side. They're an unprofitable (so far) VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client. They're clear

Discord isn't on your side. They're an unprofitable (so far) VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client. They're clearly trying to build a platform for PR- and ad-friendly discourse. Nobody should be surprised when weirdos get the ban.

echelon 6y ago
They made $120 million in revenue last year from selling Nitro custom user ids, emoji packs, etc.
- richrichardsson 6y ago
  100 million MAUs can't be cheap to maintain. You're probably getting downvoted because revenue != profit.
  - echelon 6y ago
    They have expenses, but they also have a rapidly growing (YoY) revenue source. I didn't think I'd need to point out all the pieces of the puzzle. I'm tired of getting downvoted with every post I make. I can understand when I defend freedom of speech or attack Apple or Google or China that I offend people, but it's happening all the time on totally benign posts. It's making me cynical about the community. HN is great for information discovery and diversity of experience, but it feels like people are becoming increasingly vicious.
- christophilus 6y ago
  Revenue != profits
anticensor 6y ago
> ad-friendly discourse Discord has zero ads, FYI.
- raziel2p 6y ago
  They still want to keep their reputation good (in the eyes of potential advertisers) if/when they want to add it in the future.
- eznzt 6y ago
  They show (or showed) continuous ads for Krisp.
  - anticensor 6y ago
    Showing the trademark of a technology they are using in the product, for the purposes of identification of said technology does not count as advertising. According to your reasoning, they would have to say "we use some other company's noise reduction". And no, the chat view (or the voice chat view) does not show the Krisp logo continuously.
    - eznzt 6y ago
      They showed the trademark very prominently and that must be because they had a deal. We give you noise reduction, you give us visibility. That is an advertising contract.
      - chownie 6y ago
        This doesn't follow, Mumble (open source voip) do exactly the same thing with the Speax codec in their settings

echelon 6y ago

They made $120 million in revenue last year from selling Nitro custom user ids, emoji packs, etc.

richrichardsson 6y ago
100 million MAUs can't be cheap to maintain. You're probably getting downvoted because revenue != profit.
- echelon 6y ago
  They have expenses, but they also have a rapidly growing (YoY) revenue source. I didn't think I'd need to point out all the pieces of the puzzle. I'm tired of getting downvoted with every post I make. I can understand when I defend freedom of speech or attack Apple or Google or China that I offend people, but it's happening all the time on totally benign posts. It's making me cynical about the community. HN is great for information discovery and diversity of experience, but it feels like people are becoming increasingly vicious.
christophilus 6y ago
Revenue != profits

anticensor 6y ago

> ad-friendly discourse Discord has zero ads, FYI.

raziel2p 6y ago
They still want to keep their reputation good (in the eyes of potential advertisers) if/when they want to add it in the future.
eznzt 6y ago
They show (or showed) continuous ads for Krisp.
- anticensor 6y ago
  Showing the trademark of a technology they are using in the product, for the purposes of identification of said technology does not count as advertising. According to your reasoning, they would have to say "we use some other company's noise reduction". And no, the chat view (or the voice chat view) does not show the Krisp logo continuously.
  - eznzt 6y ago
    They showed the trademark very prominently and that must be because they had a deal. We give you noise reduction, you give us visibility. That is an advertising contract.
    - chownie 6y ago
      This doesn't follow, Mumble (open source voip) do exactly the same thing with the Speax codec in their settings