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I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?

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[–] Jgmeadows@mstdn.ca 5 points 1 year ago

@VoidCrow Everywhere you look you see overpaid executives and CEO’s who think they are actually brilliant enough to deserve their astronomical wages/compensation, and thus think they can do no wrong. Their ideas are always brilliant, and when the shit hits the fan, they blame their staff for a bad implementation and fire them first.

[–] vacuumflower@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

One thing is chain reaction, another is that these media mostly came to existence in the same period of time. So they were aging synchronously.

This was predictable and predicted many times. Just like a building constructed with violations is not going to collapse immediately after it's finished, these things were not going to break (in various ways) immediately after being launched.

They are breaking now. Oopsie.

I hope XMPP makes a triumphant comeback. It's not dead yet.

[–] gorkx@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh somethings going on with discord? i know it's alls abouts dat ai. but other then that? oh well I did need to update my userhandle the other day. but then it was a while since I logged in.

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was the userhandle thing. they got rid of the numbers from names, now all usernames have to be unique. for people who had 3, 4, and 5 letter usernames, it has become the discord version of highlander, with people harassing, threatening, and bribing other people over usernames they all used to share

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh is that all? I thought it was some kind of actually bad decision that'd ruin the platform from what was said up top!

[–] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

people heavily affected by it probably wouldn't agree with you, but yeah, for longer usernames it didn't really do anything.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I had a 3 letter pronounceable username. Unsurprisingly it was gone so I added a couple of dots. I might have preferred not to have but I'd rather than than a random string of numbers I can't remember and didn't choose!

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[–] aeternum@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the dumb updates discord is doing? I haven't noticed anything different, except for the username change that doesn't have a gamertag anymore.

[–] VoidCrow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is also that weird hidden alternate layout that is an ungodly eyesore (I think it can be accessed either in the settings or if you double click the sparkle emoji for some reason?) Admittedly I'm not as familiar with Discord's issues, mainly heard others talking about it

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[–] smoke_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Higher interest rates means they have more pressure to start being profitable is my guess.

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