It's difficult to believe Discord's intent is to make the client great when the recent updates have been to shove Best Buy ads into it. Even to the point of surfacing ads as notifications! In fairness, I'm jaded since I lost my account due to a sudden ultimatum to share my phone number -- extortion for my PII. So it is impossible for me to believe Discord operates in good faith.

In fairness these are probably distinct teams at discord. A team of engineers focused on performance probably _genuinely_ cares about that.

But there’s other teams and forces at play as well. So I agree with your overall sentiment but the SDEs who worked on this are perhaps not the ones shovelling adware into our faces.

This is a fair point, but it's basically being proud of making the monstrous privacy-destroying ad machine go 10% faster. With how they pressure people to doxx themselves to them (phone number verification) or be completely locked out of their accounts, there is enough predatory tactics in that company that no one should feel proud of working there.

Yeah look Discord is more than one person. A lot of us really care about making the most performant client and that's why we did this.

I don't work at Discord, but I know of very few companies that don't have "malicious" tactics in one sense or another. Ultimately they are trying to improve their own bottom line and that _rarely_ aligns with what's best for people.

Go to hell. Nobody likes bitchy customers or giving them service.

You're saying this to a random person who doesn't like the software you use. How absolutely puerile. Please either grow up or stop commenting.

Thanks, but I already left hell (Discord) for heaven (open, self-hostable platforms).

yeah and its a great place to work and they really care about the users and they are really good people.

people like you are the worst its one thing to open your mouth and try to get some klout for working at a place, that's pathetic enough, its another thing to try and dump kool aid down people's throats. pathetic.

Please drop a stripped .pdb right next to the binary or at least make it downloadable :)!