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I hate ads, I hope they will limit them to a small amount for free users, but remember the issue Discord has been able to solve: we don’t have to waste hours anymore managing Teamspeak servers. Also it’s much more than a voice-only communication channel, it’s becoming a community, some sort of Facebook group with steroids!

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> we don’t have to waste hours anymore managing Teamspeak servers.

I'm on old fogey who still hosts a teamspeak server and I have to say, teamspeak is one of the simplest and easiest things I've ever hosted. In the 6 or so years I've been running it on my VPS I can count on one hand the amount of times I've had to do anything with it, and all of those were simply required updates.

It's seriously rock solid software, never once let me down.

I've been a discord user since the very beginning - I joined in July 2015. In almost 10 years of using discord, I've never had to do anything, even a required updated. I've paid for Nitro on and off over that time, and am currently paying $3/mo. I think less than a take away coffee per month for a decade of hassle free chat is worth it, and it's less than running even the cheapest of cheap VPS's

It becoming a Facebook group on steroids is my biggest issue with Discord. So much knowledge, information and documentation is lost in an unindexed proprietary black hole. It‘s a chat that people started to abuse for all kinds of things just because it can be done. Often time normal forums would be more beneficial for everyone involved.

Also I host my own TS server since 2019 and never had to deal with any real problems.

If any discord employee sees this, here’s an idea: 10$/month subscription to run a LLM on the chat history daily, grouping and indexing all information, structuring it in articles, etc…

Killer feature, that’d solve a lot of issues with the current experience.

Next one: teach someone born before 1999 how to deactivate channel notifications.

You can backup servers and chats if you care to. Supposedly it can be a ban worthy offense and they recommend using a second account but I’ve done a few and the second account is still fine.

Normal forums have a lot of spam and moderation issues.

> I hate ads, I hope they will limit them to a small amount for free users

Do you hate them enough to pay to not have them?

If you do, then that marks you as having cash to throw around, making you a more valuable ad target. So the advertisers raise their bid. It's part of the great cycle of digital content channels.

Rather than just dunking on the conversation, what's your suggestion for how discord should monetize?

Charge enough to cover their costs as is standard outside of the VC bubble?

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