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Yes, though just nitro basic. Discord doesn't show ads and claims to not sell my data. While I can afford to do so, I'd much rather pay a few bucks a month to keep it that way.

The number of people in this thread aggressively against a free-to-use service having any kind of way to pay employees and server bills makes me fucking depressed, and helps to explain why most free services I enjoy never seem to stay afloat with just an optional payment-based membership thing.

Edit: To people suggesting less corporate-based (whether FOSS or not) alternatives, that's totally cool! Just remember that the people behind these projects need some way to pay the bills the same way the corporate ones do, so I encourage you to contribute to them, whether that's through e.g., code improvements (which doesn't pay bills but is still helpful!) or plain old donations.

I’m not really sure what the point is. I use Discord regularly, but have never seen any ‘must-have’ reason to get Nitro.

I used to be fine with Nitro because I didn't mind supporting a service I liked being free for everybody else. These last few months I have been seeing big red flags of enshittification with the introduction of a layer of cosmetic microtransactions you can only microtransact if you're a Nitro subscriber

It's probably time to start planning my exit, but I haven't dug into the details of what next steps are gonna look like for me.

No, because I hate Discord and only use it because many people refuse to communicate with anything else.

Lmao no

It's a chat room app. So long as I can chat in the rooms, I don't need anything else. All the stickers and doodads they offer with the subscription are completely meaningless to me.

No, I dislike discord and only use it because friends use it. Half the time it seems to switch inputs or beg for subscriptions and I can't even upload a screenshot because "your files are too powerful" lmao.

It's basically Microsoft Teams for gamers. But teams at least allows full file uploads.

Eagerly awaiting a superior platform to take over.

No. Hell no.

I've been using discord since mid 2018, and got Nitro shortly after. Loved longer messages, bigger file uploads, and HD screensharing, especially after Mixer went down (FTL streaming was the only service that let me share my gameplay to friends fast enough for them to react).

That moved to Discord Classic, I kept those things that I use daily, and its worth it to me. It took a lot of convincing to get my friends to migrate from my self hosted Mumble server to Discord for voice chat... Before Steam revamped it's friends interface, there weren't a lot of good options. What were you gonna use, Skype? Teamspeak?! Discord isn't nearly as valuable today, in 2023, but at the time it was worth it. Till it starts to come apart at the seams, not sure why to switch.

Wtf is that?

Nope.

Yes, basic for the emotes.

Some interesting attitudes in this thread towards people who pay from people who don't pay.

I paid for it for a few months. I did it mostly to throw them a few bucks because I have heavily used their video calling for years.

The only feature I found remotely valuable was 1080p streaming. My friends and I often do movie night on Discord, and being able to watch full-res at higher bandwidth was nice. I also used the feature that let's you post longer messages, but I consider that bullshit because that's just an arbitrary restriction they impose on free users to try and drum up cash.

I've since cancelled because I'm unhappy with the features they've been using my money on. I don't care about animated profile gimmicks or crappy video call games. And I don't like the way they shove them in your face when you open the app.

I sometimes gift it to friends I run a discord server with around 150ish people, so discord tends to be a platform I spend a lot of time on. As it stands now, I don't have major qualms with the developers of Discord, so for now, I don't mind spending money on it.

Surprised to see the people here not using Nitro.

I’ve been paying for Nitro for about a year, I use the features frequently. Gif Display Picture, Banner, large upload size (500mb), high quality streaming. I’m pretty much streaming my games to my mates any time on my machine and they do the same, so better quality stream really increases our quality of enjoyment. I boost several friends large servers with the boosts we get. I like my profile to be flashy and care about it, and discord is on 99% of the time while my machine is on, on my second monitor along with YouTube. I use most of the features Nitro advertises, so I don’t mind paying 20m of work a month for it.

I had free Nitro for a few years because I was a partner. Only ever used it for making my username end in #0001. Nothing else it offers is really that useful, imo. Especially for the price.

Dollars are a luxury here so no.

Not anymore

When they took away the ability for custom usernames I canceled. I had a 4 letter for years, and now I can’t anymore.

However I do use it exclusively over matrix

I'm on Matrix because I want to be, I'm on Discord because I have to for certain communities. I'd never pay for Nitro.

Vencord is a thing, so no 🤔

Of course not why would I?

No. Only have it when some free month thing comes my way. I use matrix though too.

No because it's a waste of money like Netflix etc. To be fair I saw recently on discord about new features, like pfp animation and looked great, but way way down it was written that I have to pay extra for it after I get Nitro. I wish I could buy it without Nitro.

I used to years ago, but I haven't recently. I don't hate it, I just decided I didn't wanna pay that much per year anymore - I actually think it's quite nice that Discord still operates off of people paying for non-essential features instead of paywalling actually useful features.

Hell no

Nope. It's a bit kitschy, but it does its job. Nitro though, nah.

I use discord almost daily but don't need any of the nitro stuff so no

I don't see why anyone would

I currently do because it's not much of my current budget. Now that I'm not running any server actively I have considered cancelling. I would reactivate if I need the server boosts though.

It was hard enough getting my mate to use discord, I'm not gonna try to teach him how to use another one.

Nope. Never had it and probably never will.

Usually I bought it when it was buy one get one free ever since they cancelled the $5/month Nitro Classic most people had (and replaced it with that pointless "oh please buy the more expensive nitro!" $3/month Nitro Basic).

This month, I accidentally forgot to cancel my Nitro and canceled it the day I was charged but didn't get my money back and had to keep Nitro for the month. Lesson learned, I likely won't be paying again. Maybe my memory is hazy, but I swore it was supposed to give your money back if you cancel quickly after being charged again.

I use Discord heavily, so I didn't mind paying the $5/month for Nitro Classic back when it was a thing. Discord was quite good at the time and wasn't in the process of enshittification like it is now. I can't wrap my head around paying $10/month for Nitro though.

Matrix sounds great and all and I'd love if the communities and people I know were on it but that just isn't the case, and this isn't a part of my internet usage where I can use FOSS unfortunately.

HELL NO! I use betterdiscord!

Man I wish my friends were still using teamspeak.

discord is just somehow very unfriendly to use for me.

I use discord to do a few text channels and chat with friends. Every nitro popup gets dismissed because I don't know what it is and have no interest in spending time figuring out some new thing I probably don't need.

Didn't even know it cost money.