In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

  • Kroxx@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    They already can support them:

    Discord generated $445 million revenue in 2022, an 42% increase year-on-year

    They are getting greedy it has nothing to do with server cost

      • Kroxx@lemm.ee
        0·
        9 months ago

        Tried to find net, didn’t find a lot of info on it but I also didn’t try very hard. If anyone finds I’m very curious what it is.