It works nice and is free, but for how long?
How long can they keep paying for that bandwidth and message data storage while keeping the thing essentially free?
How long can they keep paying for that bandwidth and message data storage while keeping the thing essentially free?
I wonder about this a lot. I wonder if they have some big 'whales' that help sustain their business OR they're just selling all of our data (is that enough to make money at discords scale??).
> was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations. According to a news report "OpenFeint's business plan included accessing and disclosing personal information without authorization to mobile-device application developers, advertising networks and web-analytic vendors that market mobile applications" [1]
Of course that doesn't mean anything about the current model of Discord, but good to be aware of.
0: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028038352-S...
Think: every content-creator or streamer.
But also: regular corporations that provide platform services that people build their own stuff on top of, such that people want to talk to each-other about the service rather than just talking to the corporation about the service. (The sort of thing you used to stand up a hosted forum for.)
Unsure what their billing looks like, but it works pretty well for them apparently.
Discord declined to share how many Nitro subscribers it has, but the Wall Street Journal reported that Discord generated $130 million in revenue last year, up from $45 million in 2019. In the same time period, its monthly user base doubled.
0: https://qz.com/2034087/chat-app-discord-is-shedding-its-game....
It's a bit of an odd model for paying for businesses, but works well in the gaming world where multiple people can essentially help pay for a server (if you want the extra toys)