Why add age checks?
I’ve read this from several sources now and not found anywhere that explains why they’re doing this. Are they being threatened with legal action?
tinfoil hat on: discord is a company based in the USA, the USA administration saw those teenagers in Nepal supposedly organise a revolt/revolution over discord, sees the inhabitants of Minneapolis organizing against ICE on Signal, and wants to preemptively know which of their citizens are using discord with which accounts in case any of them start organizing on discord.
They’re a fucking chat app… They can be replaced in like a weekend. What is the gaming community’s fascination with Discord? I’ve used it a little and it felt like MS Teams to me…
I watched discord take over, in my opinion they “won” over other chat apps because they were easier to get started than team speak or mumble, and better than skype. These days they have the network effect working for them. Sure you can easily replace a chat app in a weekend, but convincing everyone who you play games with to install a new chat app is a lot harder.
Team speak and mumble also looked ancient compared to Discord. Also, easy bot support surely didn’t hold it back; though I am not sure to what degree team speak and mumble offer easy integration.
They expect to lose a few users but will work hard to get users back?
No. Once I’m gone, I’m gone. Account deleted. You are not getting me back. Trust broken. Thank your dumbass shareholders for forcing you to do this shit
