Not sure how to unpay wall this if someone knows please inform.

The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions

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How can we make our product worse? The latest pop-ups aren’t annoying users enough. We really need to kick things into high gear if we want to lose users.

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hahahaha, come to steam voice chat. it kinda sucks. but at least it’s not discord

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To be honest I actually like the steam text messages. I often lfg using steam discussion boards etc and then you just message in steam as well. Actually convenient.

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The article states that it is opt-out and that there would be a toggleable setting to turn it off, but if they are going this way it does not bode well.

For anyone like me looking for an application with the same aesthetic feel and general functionality as discord (if Matrix chat does not suit you), then take a look at revolt chat https://github.com/revoltchat.

It’s basically an open source discord clone that looks almost identical, but lacks some of the more advanced features of discord in its current state.

Furthermore if you have a discord community and are worried about the future like myself, note that you can get discord/revolt bots which will clone content from your discord into your revolt. If you are worried about discords future, it may be wise to implement this now as an alternative backup.

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Wouldn’t nextdns help block these kinda ads?

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