Also, in general, I think it’s good to support companies whose (otherwise free) software I use. Maybe if I give them money it will make them less likely to seek “alternative” revenue streams. $8 a month ($3 for Basic) is a fairly affordable way to support a service that I use daily. E.g. I also pay for Strava Premium, Lichess, Godbolt, etc despite almost never actually using their paid features (or they have no paid features).
Disclaimer: I do work for Discord right now (summer intern), but I had been paying for Nitro for ~two years before I joined.
So the messaging was "pay by that time or lose ID"? That sounds like an...
This made it easier to send your id to friends, not having to remember the 4 random numbers but didn't provide any value otherwise.
>The marque feature either "50MB uploads" (Nitro Basic) or "500MB uploads" (Nitro). Is this per file, per day, per month?
Per-file upload limit, it used to be 8 MiB until april which made it worth paying nitro for some.
It's one thing when they raise donations, and they leave you a custom window to put your price. But when you say "these features will cost 10 bucks for you" then it's not about whether you have the money or not, but whether the exchange of goods holds an equal worth for both parties.
And also, in the bizarre world where Discord monthly was 5 bucks but people wanted to pay 10 because it's that good (value is subjective, I get it), and they really want to show their admiration then nothing stops them from paying for 2+ accounts!
I've seen a similar argument for a game that came out that had no battle pass. "Oh I would love to have battle pass in the game, the company deserves the money for the good product", well buy 2+ copies and gift them to your friends or family then. No reason to burden the average player with added micro-transactions on a fully priced product to express gratitude.
Nitro+ used to be worth it for the unique numbers after your username as a mild flex, but once they changed that I canceled my sub.
the "nitro+" is actually regular nitro
It's per-file.
> I only share the occasional screenshot or small file, so uploads have never been an issue.
When I was running a 1440p monitor, screenshots usually ran into the upload file size limit. I would have to manually resize them. This was a hassle, so I started paying for Discord Nitro. I'm fine with it, I certainly get value from Discord.
But the default 8 MB wasn't enough. 2560x1440 is 11 MB uncompressed. I run a 4K monitor now, and a 3840x2160 screenshot is nearly 25 MB.
dunno whats going on there but an iphone photo with 12MP (3024x4032) is clocking in at 2-3MB.
iirc windows started compressing screenshots by default with 98SE
I have Nitro (the $10 one), I use Discord a lot, I love custom emojis, badge doesn't matter to me, boosting doesn't matter to me, I like the themes, I like having longer character limits, I like having double server capacity (200, instead of 100)