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Discord will possibly record video and voice calls, channels, and screen shares

by nhchris on 3/8/23, 10:14 PM with 7 comments

• by naikrovek on 3/9/23, 1:24 AM

  awful quiet in here...

  if Microsoft wound up buying Discord and this change happened, there would be three pages of negative comments by now.

  hold everyone to the same standard, or don't claim that you have standards at all.

• by dwrodri on 3/9/23, 12:11 AM

  In my opinion, Discord has done a good job of withstanding the typical enshittification[1] of their platform. I've been using Discord for 7 years now, and while I have my complaints (poor archival functionality, video streaming can be hard to troubleshoot), it's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting to build a friendly online community.

  I am deeply worried about their future because their path to profitability has always been a bit of question mark. As of this point in time, I pay for nitro namely for the higher video streaming bandwidth, and to hopefully vote with my wallet so that the platform doesn't try to squeeze more revenue out of its users in ungracious ways.

  Discord's Partner program[3] seems like a good first step to assuage my concerns , but at the end of the day it puts them more closely in competition with Twitch and YouTube, since all of these platforms are basically competing for broadcast time from a small handful of entertainers with huge amounts of loyal followers willing to subject themselves to ads.

  1: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys 2: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/13/20864278/discord-nitro-ga... 3: https://discord.com/partners