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Discord isn't on your side. They're an unprofitable (so far) VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client. They're clearly trying to build a platform for PR- and ad-friendly discourse. Nobody should be surprised when weirdos get the ban.

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They made $120 million in revenue last year from selling Nitro custom user ids, emoji packs, etc.

100 million MAUs can't be cheap to maintain. You're probably getting downvoted because revenue != profit.

They have expenses, but they also have a rapidly growing (YoY) revenue source. I didn't think I'd need to point out all the pieces of the puzzle.

I'm tired of getting downvoted with every post I make. I can understand when I defend freedom of speech or attack Apple or Google or China that I offend people, but it's happening all the time on totally benign posts.

It's making me cynical about the community. HN is great for information discovery and diversity of experience, but it feels like people are becoming increasingly vicious.

Revenue != profits

> ad-friendly discourse

Discord has zero ads, FYI.

They still want to keep their reputation good (in the eyes of potential advertisers) if/when they want to add it in the future.

They show (or showed) continuous ads for Krisp.

Showing the trademark of a technology they are using in the product, for the purposes of identification of said technology does not count as advertising. According to your reasoning, they would have to say "we use some other company's noise reduction". And no, the chat view (or the voice chat view) does not show the Krisp logo continuously.

They showed the trademark very prominently and that must be because they had a deal. We give you noise reduction, you give us visibility. That is an advertising contract.

This doesn't follow, Mumble (open source voip) do exactly the same thing with the Speax codec in their settings

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