Summary
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The main discord platform, says it is preparing for ipo worth $ 15 billion.
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Potential IPO received negative feedback from the game community and feared changes in monetization.
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Users express concerns about the future of the discord and propose to avoid centralization communities on one platform.
ContentionGlobally popular chat and community platform can be on the verge of launching the initial public offer (IPO). Compatible with mobile, PC and even gaming devices, Discord is the main channel for countless communities, especially when playing.
Since its launch in 2015, Discord has become preparation in the field of game culture and community. League of Legends. Discord has grown rapidly among communities focused on the game and moved a classic text chat solution, such as IRC, gaining popularity between twitch streamers and Reddit communities looking for places for their users to meet and interact online. Today there is a bare game or a specialized scene that is somehow not coordinated through a discord.
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Discord leadership seems to have taken it as a sign to enlarge if the New York Times message is accurate. According to the report, Discord leaders have met with investment bankers on Wall Street and beyond it when the company is preparing to release IPO. Since 2021, private investors have rewarded the estimated discord value to almost $ 15 billion USD USD, when Microsoft was reportedly in interviews to obtain discord.
Discord ipo rumors draw a negative reaction from game communities
Unfortunately, for Discord, the response to rumors was largely negative, with the loudest criticism came from games focused on games. At Reddit, commentators, they criticized Discord, called their management “sales” and expressed concern that IPO would mean the end of adding new free features to the discord. They theory that IPO triggers and the subsequent focus on “endless growth” could cause the free function to be “overpay” at the Nitro Discord subscription or some other form of “toxic” monetization.
Other commentators urged peace and said that their own sources of the story warned that conversations were only “reconnaissance”. They also stated that such a change should not surprise, given that the conversation about IPO disagrees with the fact that it is concerned about the potential acquisition of Microsoft. Nevertheless, others have said that recent rumors emphasize the need for game and other communities so that they should not centralize on one platform. They lamented when the communities moved from publicly accessible Internet forums and to the discussion exclusively, making it difficult to switch from the platform when something unpopular has happened.
The latest lecture on the potential IPO discord underlines the volatile relationship that the company has with its growing base users. Just as Discord has changed how user names worked on great anger and dismay, the company can have its job cut out if it hopes to convince its users that IPO (if true) will be good things for all participating.
