Re:Show HN: Cordless, a Discord terminal client written in Go
by dmix on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:10PM
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I’m not even talking about 3rd party clients becoming the main clients. As I said that would be a sign of a much bigger problem than just reduced ability of monetization.
The reasons why they default to lock in are obvious, what I’m saying is that it ultimately benefits their business or has a neutral effect as the type of users to use a 3rd party client isn’t and is probably still using multiple clients (mobile/desktop) and still buys the subscription services.
Discord will always make the most popular client. It’s just how this stuff works. Just like Twitter 95%+ of people go to discord to download the clients. It’s the niche ones on the side that end up getting banned.
It’s not like the advanced features of a freemium model couldn’t be replicated in the client or in Twitters case they can still send ads in the API stream. If the client doesn’t show the ads + is very popular (a key part of the equation) then you can cut them off.
The reasons why they default to lock in are obvious, what I’m saying is that it ultimately benefits their business or has a neutral effect as the type of users to use a 3rd party client isn’t and is probably still using multiple clients (mobile/desktop) and still buys the subscription services.
Discord will always make the most popular client. It’s just how this stuff works. Just like Twitter 95%+ of people go to discord to download the clients. It’s the niche ones on the side that end up getting banned.
It’s not like the advanced features of a freemium model couldn’t be replicated in the client or in Twitters case they can still send ads in the API stream. If the client doesn’t show the ads + is very popular (a key part of the equation) then you can cut them off.