[jchw]

You can pay for Discord. Admittedly, I do. It's not that Discord is perfect, I have a lot of personal gripes with it. But it's still significantly better than where I came from (Skype) and I use it a lot so it seems fair enough. Discord Nitro also thankfully pivoted from being a games service and the features it does provide are nice to have. (Larger file uploads, better stream quality, cross-server emoji.)

[time0ut]

The pricing for this seems totally crazy to me. If I recall correctly, maxing out a server is like $160 a month, right?

[chucky]

Compared to Slack, which sells you basically the same thing but with a "business" tag for $8 per person and month it doesn't seem like that much.

On the other hand Slack's pricing is pretty crazy.

[stu2b50]

Is it? $15-30/head sounds like a lot, but these are employees you're paying 30k+ to in salary alone, if the addition of slack makes them 1% more efficient per month, that blows past the $15/head. Forget the tech companies with employees that easily crest 200-300k in costs after insurance and other benefits.

There's a lot of audits and regulation, in addition to tighter security, that Slack needs to prove to its enterprise customers that they can trust their employees blasting confidential information on it every day of every year.

[SergeAx]

You are comparing efficiency like in "with Slack" and "without Slack", but in fact it is a "with Slack" vs "with another messenger". On a previous job we used Telegram for work communication. It has bots and stuff, and it's blazing fast. And it's free.

[hinkley]

From what I understand they've picked a technology stack that is extremely well adapted to the problem set they have chosen.

The impedance mismatch brings a lot of the cost to software, in many different forms.

[masklinn]

This and that are different things though.

Nitro is for individual accounts and provides features for you as a user, boost is for the server and provides features for every user of the server.

Maxing out a server takes 30 boosts but the level 3 perks seem pretty… thin on the ground:

- +100 emoji (from 150 to 200)

- 384Kbps audio (from 256)

- 100MB uploads (from 50)

- custom URLs

Only the third one is somewhat useful, but 15 boosts for that doesn't really seems worth it.

As to price, a boost is $5 so a level 3 server is indeed $150 (level 2 is half), however Nitro ($10) provides 2 boosts and 30% off all boost purchases, meaning you can max out a server for $108, or 55.5 for a level 2. Nitro classic is only $5 and also provides 30% off of boosts, but doesn't include the free boosts, so it comes out at $110 to get a level 3 server on your own.

[reificator]

#4 is huge, especially if you're running the Discord to promote something else like a Twitch channel or a game.

Is it worth the cost? Probably not. But I'd put it above larger uploads in terms of importance, and my discords hit the upload limit pretty often.

[scrollaway]

All replies here are missing that multiple users can stack their boosts, so no single individual needs to be paying 100 bucks a month.

[reificator]

I'm not missing that, what implies that I am?

[scrollaway]

You're not; your reply is.