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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by teirce on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:36PM (#19494123)
Discord already has a subscription model (nitro).

They tried to pivot themselves into a game store, but that appears to not have gone particularly well.

Not too sure on the privacy front. I don't believe they sell any user data, yet.

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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by LinuxBender on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @03:36PM (#19495291)
Hopefully they won't provide chat data or metrics to others. If Discord were acquired or partnered with anyone shady, they are certainly in a position to Big-Data-AI (and other bs bing words) everyone. They brag about storing all messages. [1]

[1] - https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m...

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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by gsich on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @05:17PM (#19496108)
Getting acquired is their business model.
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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by lolikoisuru on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:53AM (#19498444)
>Not too sure on the privacy front. I don't believe they sell any user data, yet.

Oh please. The CEO's last company got sued for that and this time he made sure to make it obvious in the ToS.

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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by redskull on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:14AM (#19501645)
How do you think they provide a FREE service...in there TOS it says they mine all data you put on discord and essentially resell it...It's been shitcords way since Day 1....If you don't see that IDK what to tell you cause people just don't HAND out free services unless they are getting something in return
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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by greymeister on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:42PM (#19495833)
Good point, I remember the game storefront being announced but had not heard about their subscriptions.

I still wouldn't recommend using it for anything because of the potential gold mine they have with the user data. I can imagine Tencent or someone similar coming in for the data alone.

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Re:Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice cha... by orliesaurus on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @06:00PM (#19496417)
> but that appears to not have gone particularly well. source? numbers? leaks?
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