Or maybe if has something to do with the limited availability of VC money. If you can’t find people to throw free money at your company, you need to figure out a way to actually make it profitable. You know, like a normal business…
After 15 rounds and 995.4 M$, maybe it’s about time.
It’s not like the management has let people, who still work there, add or fix anything. It’s been nothing but Nitro promos, and animated profiles. Huge shame that people got laid off like this
Discord went the way of Skype, it’s just a bloated fustercluck now. I don’t use it often, just once a month or so to keep up with a group of old friends, and every time I fire it up it has a new update bringing features I don’t give a rats ass about.
To be clear, I’m not defeneding this pratice but explaining it. This cycle is how large businesses operate to foster growth over time.
Lay off people to tell stock holders they are becoming more efficient.
wait
Hiring spree, announce new features, new directions, hype hype hype
wait
Lay offs! Trimming overhead! Streamlining! Much efficency! Good business!
wait
Hyyyyyyype! Discord announces a plan to replace iMessage, Email and the entire concept of texting! Triples their staff! Such hype!
Rinse, repeat
It’s horrific for the employees and a scathing indictment as capitalism as a whole. But, this is how large businesses work, not nessecarily a massive corporate slip up.
Well, looks like I’ll be limiting my use of Discord from now on. I’ve no interest in supporting tech companies that will reduce headcount over admitting fault.
As someone who works in tech, it doesn’t surprise me. I had a lot of friends get poached 2 years ago with salary increases that shocked me during this blitz on hiring. What surprises me is timing. Some companies recognized the over optimistic forecasting earlier and realized to let folks off a year ago. Some folks are just now getting laid off. I’m. Not sure what led some companies to drag it out vs drop the hammer earlier. Did some see the writing on the wall and choose to cut earlier? Did other folks really try to keep employees hoping things would turn around?
While not as bad as last year, there are lots of layoffs across tech again. Google and Amazon have already had multiple rounds in the last two months, alongside a handful of companies that aren’t particularly well-run, like Unity, Duolingo, and now Discord.
My stress levels skyrocket whenever I’m using Discord. The quality of the voice is nice but having to constantly reconfigure the settings to make it work fine and the unintuitive UI stresses me out.
I have basically disabled all input settings in the app and configure the input before it reaches Discord for consistency. Still it sometimes messes up things amazingly.
Yeah I use the Steelseries sonar stuff because that makes it so that inputs never change. When my headset turns off it redirects the output to my speakers and when I turn the headset back on, it goes back to it. Virtual audio devices are very nice in general lol.
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But no execs, I assume.
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Shill element and we wouldn’t need to be in this situation people 😮💨
“sharpen our focus and improve the way we work together to bring more agility to our organization.”
Ahh yes, watching co-workers get laid off does wonders for improving the way you work together with the people still there.
Trauma bonding exercise!
Right? Sharpening focus and working together have zero to do with how many people you employ.
This was about profits. It’s always about profits.
Or maybe if has something to do with the limited availability of VC money. If you can’t find people to throw free money at your company, you need to figure out a way to actually make it profitable. You know, like a normal business…
After 15 rounds and 995.4 M$, maybe it’s about time.
“The beatings will continue until morale improves!”
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It’s not like the management has let people, who still work there, add or fix anything. It’s been nothing but Nitro promos, and animated profiles. Huge shame that people got laid off like this
Discord went the way of Skype, it’s just a bloated fustercluck now. I don’t use it often, just once a month or so to keep up with a group of old friends, and every time I fire it up it has a new update bringing features I don’t give a rats ass about.
That will cause some discord
Right after they ruined the app’s UI?
To be clear, I’m not defeneding this pratice but explaining it. This cycle is how large businesses operate to foster growth over time.
Rinse, repeat
It’s horrific for the employees and a scathing indictment as capitalism as a whole. But, this is how large businesses work, not nessecarily a massive corporate slip up.
Here is a lawyer explaining the “dance steps” that the game industries is doing as of late.
Damn, this was very insightful. Thx for sharing!!! 😁
That may have been true during the lavish times of ZIRP, but I wouldn’t expect to see this dance any longer, at least until money is cheap/free again.
UNIONIZE
Tech CEOs: we need better numbers. Fire a bunch of people! Ahh there we go. Now we’re flush with cash. Well, my work here is done.
And gut the r&d budget. That’s future CEO’s problem.
Now where’s my golden parachute?
The Jack Welsh way…
That guy is literally, not figuratively, responsible for most of the shitty things that companies do now.
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Well, looks like I’ll be limiting my use of Discord from now on. I’ve no interest in supporting tech companies that will reduce headcount over admitting fault.
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As someone who works in tech, it doesn’t surprise me. I had a lot of friends get poached 2 years ago with salary increases that shocked me during this blitz on hiring. What surprises me is timing. Some companies recognized the over optimistic forecasting earlier and realized to let folks off a year ago. Some folks are just now getting laid off. I’m. Not sure what led some companies to drag it out vs drop the hammer earlier. Did some see the writing on the wall and choose to cut earlier? Did other folks really try to keep employees hoping things would turn around?
While not as bad as last year, there are lots of layoffs across tech again. Google and Amazon have already had multiple rounds in the last two months, alongside a handful of companies that aren’t particularly well-run, like Unity, Duolingo, and now Discord.
A wave of enshittification has struck Discord
Sorry to say it, but it has always sucked.
Nah. What sucked was having to type in IP addresses just to talk on voice.
My stress levels skyrocket whenever I’m using Discord. The quality of the voice is nice but having to constantly reconfigure the settings to make it work fine and the unintuitive UI stresses me out.
I have basically disabled all input settings in the app and configure the input before it reaches Discord for consistency. Still it sometimes messes up things amazingly.
Yeah I use the Steelseries sonar stuff because that makes it so that inputs never change. When my headset turns off it redirects the output to my speakers and when I turn the headset back on, it goes back to it. Virtual audio devices are very nice in general lol.
Capitalism!
It fucking sucks!
So the nitro subscription is gonna up to increase profits?
They’re going to dedicate their entire next year’s budget to introduce a new kind of emoji, though.
Gotta have all the new DLC/cosmetic stuff.
🫄