Joe Ortiz

Just another friendly reminder to get off #Discord and use #IRC, #XMPP, or #Matrix instead. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees

There's still plenty of alternatives out there, even #forum platforms are still here.

#messaging #community

Discord lays off 17 percent of employees

In an internal memo, CEO Jason Citron said the company’s cuts were needed to “sharpen our focus and improve the way we work together to bring more agility to our organization.”

The Verge
Jan 11, 2024 at 8:05pmWeb
Show threadNeatNitJan 11, 2024

@joeo10
To that end, we are offering [fired employees]:

- Five months of salary (plus an additional week for every full year at Discord)

- Five months of benefit continuation

- Three months of outplacement services

- Equity vesting of awards scheduled to vest on Feb. 1, 2024

- Continued access to Modern Health through the end of 2024, and more

-----

there are reasons to ditch Discord but this isn't one of them.

Show threadtyilJan 12, 2024
@joeo10 The downside of #Matrix is that its slow as balls and self-hosted instances scale ridiculously poorly. I wouldn't recommend this myself.

I had a non-techie try it out last weekend, and all she had to say about the phone experience with Element was "this app fucking sucks", which seems reasonable if you've ever used it. I guess people can get upset and say "but there's other clients", this could be true, but the flagship client every normie user will try out first is garbage-tier at its peak.
Show threadhaiseJan 12, 2024
@joeo10 I mean element (the main company working on matrix) has letgo/fired alot of their staff more then 17% this past year so its just really bad management from my understanding
Show threadJoe OrtizJan 12, 2024

@haise The good news is that the Matrix protocol is open source and anyone can fork it. I don't use Element/Riot at all.

Big difference is that Discord is centralized and will shut down at some point, taking all of their archives along with it.