In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app.
Discord didn’t initially share a release date, or even how they’re going to implement ads into Discord’s overall design, other than mentioning that the sponsored quests would “tastefully” be integrated.
A report from The Wall Street Journal claims that Discord’s sponsored quests will be landing on the platform this week, and will be displayed at the bottom left of the app.
I read about this, and you will have the ability to turn the ad’s off in settings.
They are optional. For now.
For now!
If it’s to “support game developers”, I’m guessing/hoping that means the ads will only show up in the Activities feature
They definitely just wrote that to make it go down easier. They aren’t running ads for games out of the goodness of their hearts
I deleted my discord account about a year ago due to privacy concerns and I’ve been tempted to make a new one a few times but this definitely won’t push me closer.
U BLOCK ORIGIN ACTIVATED
Haha April fools, right? Right??
Switch to Revolt? Anyone got alternatives?
It’s owned by Roblox.
Is that worse than discord? Genuine question, I’m too old for roblox so I have no clue…
Hmm. They’re the same? None is better. Better use something else like Revolt or Matrix. Though Revolt is more like Discord whereas Matrix lacks features.
The nice thing about federation is we no longer have to put up with anyone’s shit.
The annoying thing about federation is that we have to convince our friends to stop putting up with it. Not an actual argument against. I just wish I could convert everyone I follow over.
Their frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor. Some may never catch on.
frustration will eventually be the largest determining factor
Never underestimate the power of frustration lol, just start subtly dropping hints after they complain about something on their preferred app and someday the straw will break the camels back.
It’s easy for people to deal with BS when they’re thinking it’s the same BS everywhere, but once they know that there is an app that has less or no BS like that…
Or what do I know I never build up the conversation skill tree and high AF lmao
Matrix too.
There’s no good discord alternatives with all the features unfortunately. It’s a wait and see type of thing.
RIP Discord
Please drink a verification can to continue.
Time to enter the Matrix haha… just maybe not that Matrix server… a different Matrix server.
Join different server to well distribute the network and left matrix.org for newcommers.
TL;DR: Currently a menu inside settings that gives you in-game reward redeem codes if you stream the game for a set amount of time. Someday, these will “show up tastefully in Discord”.
Great, the app is already a hot mess. It remind me of the early internet homepages people used to make.
God what is it with every social media app sucking hot fucking garbage despite being the most popular way to access it?. Especially if the app was bearable and progressively got worse.
Capitalism.
If only
If friends decide they will use something else then I can avoid Discord. Till then, guess I’ll start using it on the web for the adblock.
Private dns, adguard , Google it. Might work.
I’m pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.
I guess now they’ll enforce the ban on third party clients
This is correct.
Time to fire up the vent server
I knew what this was going to be before I clicked.
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