They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

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    8 months ago

    Remember the emails from 2015? The plan was to have a platform, that just works. No bullshit, no issues, just functional features.

    Even when Nitro was originally added, it was 5 bucks to optional support, if you’d like to help the company. Now the same sub is 10 a month, and half of the client is unusable without it.

    Not to mention all the paid account banners and borders they’re selling for an egregious amount of money

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      8 months ago

      Genuine question, but what’s unusable without Nitro? I don’t use Discord very often, and the only thing that I’ve seen Nitro pushed for is reactions from other communities, and that’s pointless anyway.

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        8 months ago

        video calls and screensharing is very, very rough (locked to 480/low frame rates) without nitro, for one. the file sharing limits are also extremely restrictive.

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          Fair enough. I tried video calling with it at the beginning of the first lockdown, and it was fine for what I needed, but most of the video calling programs were a bit rubbish then.

          I very rarely share files with people outside of an already set up organisation, so I haven’t had a reason to try their file sharing.

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      8 months ago

      Vencord is pretty decent as an alternative to nitro if you haven’t heard of it. It pretty much is a modded client that unlocks most of the nitro locked features

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        8 months ago

        I use Vesktop for other mods. Not touching the paywalled stuff because I don’t want to put my account at risk more, than I need to