[Jnr]

It doesn't really matter if they check it or not, I had Nitro for a year during pandemic because I thought I could stream in higher quality. In reality the quality was just as bad, and sometimes video looked very pixelated.

I have gigabit connection at home and a good GPU that does the encoding but I guess Discord doesn't have any servers near me (~1900km to Rotterdam) and it might be prioritizing low latency. The experience was terrible so I cancelled the subscription. All the other paid features seemed useless to me.

[ThatPlayer]

I believe Discord's streaming limits itself based on the connection to your viewers as well as their decoding capabilites, because Discord itself doesn't do any transcoding.

For example with AV1, if someone joins without an AV1 decoder, it fallbacks to h264: https://twitter.com/gerdelgado/status/1618285964308402180

[Thaxll]

Funny enough, Discord uses i3d which is a Rotterdam based compagny, I'm pretty sure they have servers close to you.

[Jnr]

That is the issue, I know that servers in EU are in Rotterdam, that is why I mentioned it, but it is far away.