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It should go without saying but, CANCEL YOUR NITRO SUBSCRIPTION NOW IF YOU'RE PAYING FOR ONE (for whatever reason) This was just announced today and a flood

It should go without saying but, *CANCEL YOUR NITRO SUBSCRIPTION NOW IF YOU'RE PAYING FOR ONE* (for whatever reason) This was just announced today and a flood of canceled payments within the next 24 hours are the easiest way to send a message. And also tell people on the servers you're on to do the same. It's not like they give you anything of real value for that money.

pipo234 8mo ago
Not a subscriber, but I understand your call for retribution. I suppose the silver lining is that they are putting the responsibility for age verification adults. Which imo is better than requiring everyone; kids get a free pass to the kids stuff...
- hahn-kev 8mo ago
  Yeah I agree. I actually see most of the stuff in the teens mode as a feature
  - anon_cow1111 8mo ago
    I'll reply for both you and GPP, I don't know if this will personally affect any servers I use since they're not obviously adult, but I assume the slope will be slippery and if they're doing a faceID system now it will only get worse. Article says "analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device" ...are they really going to implement a facial recognition algo in the browser, or is this a "download our app or fuck off" situation? I'm guessing the latter.
    - johnnyanmac 8mo ago
      I pay for nitro as of now (not for much longer). If absolutely nothing else, I'm not going to give them monthly payments (which generally required a CC. Aka "I'm an adult") and still not be trusted to be an adult. And that's the thing, these policies are always loose and will be abused. - M rated game? Okay, it's adult only now. Sure. - Emulators? Well they can play adult stuff. Now they just happen to add friction on something that is convenient for billionaire studios. - LGBT content? Well you're talking about sexuality. Of course you need to be an adult. Here let's take face scans and totally not be a sitting duck for any malicious parties looking to identify traditionally disenfranchised people The escalation is fairly obvious at this point. We've seen it happen in real time.
  - nicce 8mo ago
    They should disable ads and algorithms from social media by default and give those only for verified adults!
- Brybry 8mo ago
  Unless they're changing things with some sort of automated classification, then it's users who designate which servers and channels have adult content. In my experience, you run the risk of getting your server shut down in small servers if someone reports it. Or risk losing your community server status in larger public servers until you come back into compliance. Also in my experience what teenagers are going to do when they hit an age gate is use a fake picture/video. Sometimes they'll get banned for that and then they'll make a new account and do it again.
WhyNotHugo 8mo ago
Discord has been immensely hostile to the public in general since forever, and people love to flock to it and throw money at the company behind it. I don't expect the masses to change their incomprehensible habits just because of this.
- Choco31415 8mo ago
  It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms. Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does.
  - swiftcoder 8mo ago
    > nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does Apart from the open voice channels, what Discord features is Slack actually lacking? (and huddles can sub-in for voice channels much of the time)
    - moffkalast 8mo ago
      Dude, Slack deletes everything almost immediately unless you have a paid version which isn't cheap.
    - thinkling 8mo ago
      Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use.
    - karaziox 8mo ago
      This doesn't feel like a real question... Slack free tier is basically crappy Discord, limited message history, no voice channels, huddles are also behind the paying tiers. It is basically worse on all aspects unless you start paying
    - chocolatkey 8mo ago
bilekas 8mo ago
Thank you for reminding me, I've been meaning to cancel for months but it's only 2.50EUR and having to sign into my apple account was such an effort I never got around to it.
mkaic 8mo ago
Just cancelled mine after reading this comment, I only really cared about the bigger file uploads and the HD screen-sharing anyways and I can live without those. Now that I think of it, I bet I could host a decent instance of some open-source alternative in a public cloud for around the same cost as what I paid for Nitro ($100 a year)...
- nubinetwork 8mo ago
  WebRTC is ridiculously easy.
- aaarrm 8mo ago
  I think there are actually discord client mods which let you stream in high quality anyway.
- RulerOf 8mo ago
  >I only really cared about ... the HD screen-sharing I bought and canceled nitro in a single day because it's a bad product. They promise HD screen-sharing, but it's only for _my_ screen. When I hopped into a call, the other user's screen share is illegible. Higher quality is still locked behind a "Buy Nitro" message. If I'm paying for an improved experience, I should be able to get it.
mdavidn 8mo ago
It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old.
- doctorpangloss 8mo ago
  Yeah because they don’t haha. It boggles the mind because the headline is clickbait.
  - moffkalast 8mo ago
    Youtube routinely asks for ID on accounts that are already of drinking age, they dgaf they want document scans they can use for profiling and to likely sell to 3rd parties.
    - Permit 8mo ago
      > and to likely sell to 3rd parties. Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case?
      - DaSHacka 8mo ago
        Give it a couple years for the inevitable data breach to leak all the details
      - ted_bunny 8mo ago
        This sort of thing is common enough that simply establishing means, motive and opportunity are convincing to me. If not yet then soon. You can't hope for a smoking gun every time.
      - randunel 8mo ago
        Since selling PII is a common practice in the US industry, I believe the onus is reversed, they need to prove that they delete/keep-private.
airstrike 8mo ago
Cancelled
html5cat 8mo ago
cancelled. thanks for suggesting
dyauspitr 8mo ago
Why should we send a message?
safety1st 8mo ago
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I read the announcement and other than the risk of a slippery slope into more invasive ID demands, I'm not sure I have a huge problem with it. The default experience will be the "teen" experience - they list what that entails - stuff that's flagged as adult/NSFW/etc. is blurred out until your age is verified, which for most(?) people will require ID or face scan. DMs/friend requests from people you don't know take some extra clicks to view. Fine. It depends on how broad the definition of adult content ends up being I guess, but I'm simply not convinced that requiring ID to view "adult" content is the end of the world. If that means porn, I'm 100% OK with it, put porn behind gates. It has become far too easy to access. It's 2026 and we now have a generation of gooning addicts out there who never have actual sex and it's basically a guarantee that they won't find partners or start families any time soon, exacerbating an already problematic decline in the birth rate. This is not a version of society or anyone's "rights" that I care to defend. You want to goon, show ID. That's how it was before the Internet anyway. On the other hand if it means any speech that the platform deems to be "controversial" will be blurred out then my response will not be to submit ID, I'll simply limit how I use the platform. Anonymous speech continues to matter and needs protection. But Discord was never the entity that was going to provide that protection. I mean Discord is a gaming chat room. Expectations should be set by that fact. I don't need a gaming chat room to be NSFW, or even host i.e. political speech really. I get that people have used it for more than gaming, but it was always pretty clear what it was. If people don't like that this gaming chat room no longer supports other uses, they should switch to an alternative.
- heavyset_go 8mo ago
  We're all going to have to scan our faces and upload our IDs just to use the internet because of your weird obsession with birth rates? Wonderful.
  - throwaway290 8mo ago
    > we're all Speak for yourself, I didn't touch discord for 3 years.
    - 8mo ago
xyst 8mo ago
I canceled that shit years ago.
intellix 8mo ago
Cancelled. Was a right job trying to get in as it just refreshed everytime I tried on mobile. When I went to the site separately after clicking subscribe it magically let me in. The cancel login flow didn't inform me that it found my login suspicious but the subscribe one did
erfgh 8mo ago
I bet they expect the canceled payments. Management will push through.
nekusar 8mo ago
Just did. And the community im interacting with is looking into self-hosted options.
NamlchakKhandro 8mo ago
why in gods name would you ever pay for discord.
- tdy_err 8mo ago
  Bragging to software developers about freeloading their software?
  - niutech 8mo ago
    Freeloading? Bad word. There are plenty of free/open source alternatives like Discourse, Zulip, Matrix, so why would anybody pay for something which should be free to use and respect user privacy?

It should go without saying but, *CANCEL YOUR NITRO SUBSCRIPTION NOW IF YOU'RE PAYING FOR ONE* (for whatever reason) This was just announced today and a flood

pipo234 8mo ago

Not a subscriber, but I understand your call for retribution. I suppose the silver lining is that they are putting the responsibility for age verification adults. Which imo is better than requiring everyone; kids get a free pass to the kids stuff...

hahn-kev 8mo ago
Yeah I agree. I actually see most of the stuff in the teens mode as a feature
- anon_cow1111 8mo ago
  I'll reply for both you and GPP, I don't know if this will personally affect any servers I use since they're not obviously adult, but I assume the slope will be slippery and if they're doing a faceID system now it will only get worse. Article says "analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device" ...are they really going to implement a facial recognition algo in the browser, or is this a "download our app or fuck off" situation? I'm guessing the latter.
  - johnnyanmac 8mo ago
    I pay for nitro as of now (not for much longer). If absolutely nothing else, I'm not going to give them monthly payments (which generally required a CC. Aka "I'm an adult") and still not be trusted to be an adult. And that's the thing, these policies are always loose and will be abused. - M rated game? Okay, it's adult only now. Sure. - Emulators? Well they can play adult stuff. Now they just happen to add friction on something that is convenient for billionaire studios. - LGBT content? Well you're talking about sexuality. Of course you need to be an adult. Here let's take face scans and totally not be a sitting duck for any malicious parties looking to identify traditionally disenfranchised people The escalation is fairly obvious at this point. We've seen it happen in real time.
- nicce 8mo ago
  They should disable ads and algorithms from social media by default and give those only for verified adults!
Brybry 8mo ago
Unless they're changing things with some sort of automated classification, then it's users who designate which servers and channels have adult content. In my experience, you run the risk of getting your server shut down in small servers if someone reports it. Or risk losing your community server status in larger public servers until you come back into compliance. Also in my experience what teenagers are going to do when they hit an age gate is use a fake picture/video. Sometimes they'll get banned for that and then they'll make a new account and do it again.

WhyNotHugo 8mo ago

Discord has been immensely hostile to the public in general since forever, and people love to flock to it and throw money at the company behind it. I don't expect the masses to change their incomprehensible habits just because of this.

Choco31415 8mo ago
It's not incomprehensible. Discord makes it so much easier to organize communities than most other platforms. Telegram, Slack, Facebook, Team Speak, Reddit, GroupMe, nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does.
- swiftcoder 8mo ago
  > nothing really offers the same feature set and ease of setup that Discord does Apart from the open voice channels, what Discord features is Slack actually lacking? (and huddles can sub-in for voice channels much of the time)
  - moffkalast 8mo ago
    Dude, Slack deletes everything almost immediately unless you have a paid version which isn't cheap.
  - thinkling 8mo ago
    Most importantly, Slack limits the amount of message history you get to keep if you’re not paying. And the payment plans are per-user fees which quickly becomes non-viable for non-commercial use.
  - karaziox 8mo ago
    This doesn't feel like a real question... Slack free tier is basically crappy Discord, limited message history, no voice channels, huddles are also behind the paying tiers. It is basically worse on all aspects unless you start paying
  - chocolatkey 8mo ago

bilekas 8mo ago

Thank you for reminding me, I've been meaning to cancel for months but it's only 2.50EUR and having to sign into my apple account was such an effort I never got around to it.

mkaic 8mo ago

Just cancelled mine after reading this comment, I only really cared about the bigger file uploads and the HD screen-sharing anyways and I can live without those. Now that I think of it, I bet I could host a decent instance of some open-source alternative in a public cloud for around the same cost as what I paid for Nitro ($100 a year)...

nubinetwork 8mo ago
WebRTC is ridiculously easy.
aaarrm 8mo ago
I think there are actually discord client mods which let you stream in high quality anyway.
RulerOf 8mo ago
>I only really cared about ... the HD screen-sharing I bought and canceled nitro in a single day because it's a bad product. They promise HD screen-sharing, but it's only for _my_ screen. When I hopped into a call, the other user's screen share is illegible. Higher quality is still locked behind a "Buy Nitro" message. If I'm paying for an improved experience, I should be able to get it.

mdavidn 8mo ago

It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old.

doctorpangloss 8mo ago
Yeah because they don’t haha. It boggles the mind because the headline is clickbait.
- moffkalast 8mo ago
  Youtube routinely asks for ID on accounts that are already of drinking age, they dgaf they want document scans they can use for profiling and to likely sell to 3rd parties.
  - Permit 8mo ago
    > and to likely sell to 3rd parties. Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case?
    - DaSHacka 8mo ago
      Give it a couple years for the inevitable data breach to leak all the details
    - ted_bunny 8mo ago
      This sort of thing is common enough that simply establishing means, motive and opportunity are convincing to me. If not yet then soon. You can't hope for a smoking gun every time.
    - randunel 8mo ago
      Since selling PII is a common practice in the US industry, I believe the onus is reversed, they need to prove that they delete/keep-private.

airstrike 8mo ago

Cancelled

html5cat 8mo ago

cancelled. thanks for suggesting

dyauspitr 8mo ago

Why should we send a message?

safety1st 8mo ago

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but I read the announcement and other than the risk of a slippery slope into more invasive ID demands, I'm not sure I have a huge problem with it. The default experience will be the "teen" experience - they list what that entails - stuff that's flagged as adult/NSFW/etc. is blurred out until your age is verified, which for most(?) people will require ID or face scan. DMs/friend requests from people you don't know take some extra clicks to view. Fine. It depends on how broad the definition of adult content ends up being I guess, but I'm simply not convinced that requiring ID to view "adult" content is the end of the world. If that means porn, I'm 100% OK with it, put porn behind gates. It has become far too easy to access. It's 2026 and we now have a generation of gooning addicts out there who never have actual sex and it's basically a guarantee that they won't find partners or start families any time soon, exacerbating an already problematic decline in the birth rate. This is not a version of society or anyone's "rights" that I care to defend. You want to goon, show ID. That's how it was before the Internet anyway. On the other hand if it means any speech that the platform deems to be "controversial" will be blurred out then my response will not be to submit ID, I'll simply limit how I use the platform. Anonymous speech continues to matter and needs protection. But Discord was never the entity that was going to provide that protection. I mean Discord is a gaming chat room. Expectations should be set by that fact. I don't need a gaming chat room to be NSFW, or even host i.e. political speech really. I get that people have used it for more than gaming, but it was always pretty clear what it was. If people don't like that this gaming chat room no longer supports other uses, they should switch to an alternative.

heavyset_go 8mo ago
We're all going to have to scan our faces and upload our IDs just to use the internet because of your weird obsession with birth rates? Wonderful.
- throwaway290 8mo ago
  > we're all Speak for yourself, I didn't touch discord for 3 years.
  - 8mo ago

xyst 8mo ago

I canceled that shit years ago.

intellix 8mo ago

Cancelled. Was a right job trying to get in as it just refreshed everytime I tried on mobile. When I went to the site separately after clicking subscribe it magically let me in. The cancel login flow didn't inform me that it found my login suspicious but the subscribe one did

erfgh 8mo ago

I bet they expect the canceled payments. Management will push through.

nekusar 8mo ago

Just did. And the community im interacting with is looking into self-hosted options.

NamlchakKhandro 8mo ago

why in gods name would you ever pay for discord.

tdy_err 8mo ago
Bragging to software developers about freeloading their software?
- niutech 8mo ago
  Freeloading? Bad word. There are plenty of free/open source alternatives like Discourse, Zulip, Matrix, so why would anybody pay for something which should be free to use and respect user privacy?