4 ms·

Off the top of my head I cannot recall any big features added to discord over the last few years. I'd like to know what those 4x more employees were working on.

• skrebbel 3y ago
  Maybe not engineers? Discord quickly morphed from a place where gamers yell at each other into a place where lots of communities and movements exist. Maybe that skyrocketed the need for moderation, lawsuits of people demanding that their former block party co-organizer gets un-admin'ed, abuse reports, etc?
• ketzo 3y ago
  They have been trying a lot of different routes for monetization, and over a pretty short time period. Adding lots of little things to Nitro, more community server monetization features; at one point, Discord was even trying to sell games a la Steam. I'm sure that last one in particular had quite a lot of headcount associated, and it seems obvious that after they totally shuttered the project, they just reallocated the employees to new stuff.
• Xeamek 3y ago
  They changed the icons for mute mic, and mute sound buttons. So that probably took at least a dedicated team and few months of work...
• strbean 3y ago
  Activities and soundboards are the ones that come to mind. Activities are a pretty heavy feature.