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 ser

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.