wildginger

Why would anyone give a shit what tories value or dont value? They dont trade in facts.

are you saying every communist state that has fallen, has fallen to fascism?

Seems like

Its not going to effect the causal, non paying active users for sure.

But thats because they arent the paying customers. A lot of people who paid did so for the purpose of upgrading their personal servers, which pretty often included the file storage.

Im not in a ton of servers, but the ones who were community hubs are already discussing leaving discord over this, because the file convenience was the big draw of paying for discord. No idea where they want to move to, but they arent happy about sitting still.

Discord is a free chat app that offered a paid service of file storage. Because they arent actually trying to be a chat app.

They are trying to be a community hub. A hub that offers the bare minimum for a community for free, with paid upgrades to community care, communication, interaction, and convenience.

Which included file storage. Which is why so many people chose them for their community hub.

Do you think your company could get away with offering a paid service that included file hosting, and then suddenly announcing that the file hosting was now only temporary?

Or would you expect your customers to abandon you over any claims of "just find an alternative"?

E: to clarify, by "your company" I mean where you work. Im not assuming youre at a position of ownership

They literally were selling that. That was the thing they flaunted as a big reason to pay up, was the permanence of the file storage.

If they werent aware of that, or its effect on their sales, I would be genuinely shocked. That would be like mcdonalds being surprised people wanted fries with their combo meal.

...... But it is, and they offer for people to pay them in order to function as such.

"Kroger shouldnt sell groceries. 🤷‍♀️ Grow your own celery, if you intended to eat it and not sell it you shouldnt have bought it from a store to begin with."

If their plan was to intentionally make unsustainable investments and then gut features later on, they should be shuttered now before they waste any more users time and money

Did anything about my comment imply I thought this change was illegal? This has nothing to do with their rights

The issue at hand is taking away a feature your users have come to expect from your product after youve secured a level of dependance by outcompeting the competition

They wouldnt have been as popular if they had been temporary from the beginning.

Shoulda woulda coulda, this is now a thing their community has come to expect and rely on their platform being capable of. And the change of such will break a number of channels.