[devwastaken]

You're talking to an empty room. Startups operate by pushing money at features that are inherently unsustainable, so that they look like they're "better" than the competition. Now that discord is highly valued and looking for buyers there's no stress to ensure those features continue, or to in any way seriously improve the product. Standard push-pull economics.

[edgyquant]

I don't think discord is looking for buyers though. If they were they would have sold to Microsoft.

[mkr-hn]

Microsoft offered $12 billion. They set the floor, and now Discord is trying to raise it. Nothing about this makes sense, unless Discord plans to offer premium bots they control or something along those lines.

A real-world example I base this on: Twitter started squeezing developers after the IPO in ways that only make sense for a company that wants to control the experience for monetization purposes. They were desperate to justify their stock to investors. Discord might be on the same track.

[beebeepka]

I was about to say Microsoft already bought Discord last year??? but apparently it never materialised.