Dysord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Visnevsky wants you want to know a lot attachWith report of Upcoming IPO And his co-founder, the news of Jason Citron, recently a former activities of Activation Blizard, Hamm Saknini is stepping for the company to lead the company, many discord users are correctly worried that the platform is going to be a stage, well, fuck.
“I understand anxiety and anxiety,” Vishnevskiy recently told Engadget in a call. “I think things that people are afraid separate from any other company separate a great, long -centered company.” According to vishnevskiy, it is a matter of regular discussion in the company, anxiety that discord may fail to correct or lose its way.
“I am definitely the one who is constantly attaching,” he said about the internal meetings of the discord. “This is not a bad thing to create a strong business and mudrakaate a product. It’s how we can reinstate and continue to improve things. But we must be extremely thoughtful about how we do this.”
The way Vishnevsky told it, the discord already had an identity crisis and came out of the moment, which has a strong meaning of its product for people. You may remember that the company summarized a curated game store. Discord launched the Storefront in 2018 to shut down in 2019 after less than a year. Vishnevsky describes that as a period of recurring within the discord.
“We embrace it internally,” he said about the episode. When Visnevsky and Citron started bickering, they imagined a platform, which would not only be to chat with friends, but also a game that would also serve as a game distribution hub. “We spent one year of construction of that component of our business and then, quite clearly, we quickly knew that it was not going well.”
Of that failure, the discord decided to focus on its nitro membership and embrace everyone using the app to organize communities outside the gaming. Since its introduction in 2017, the service has developed to include some different allowances, but in its heart, nitro has always been a way for users to get out more than the app and support your favorite server. For example, $ 3 per month basic tier allows people to use custom emoji and stickers on any server, and uploads up to 50MB files. Regular tier, which costs $ 10 per month, includes 4K streaming, 500MB upload and more. They are all good-to-hests, but the main tasks are free.
Vishnevskiy described nitro as a “unprecedented business”, but the decision to look beyond gaming created a separate set of problems. He said, “It was not clear to whom we were building, because now the discord was a community product for all, and there were much more distractions,” he said.
The feeling of the flow of the mission was further enhanced by the explosive development disorder seen during the epidemics, as even more new users turned to the stage to stay in touch with friends during the lockdown. “It covers all the things that we did not fully clarify how we want to contact things,” Vishnevsky said. “We became strong. Many people were introduced to the discord, and this is now their home, but it is probably part of the fact that it took longer to realize some decisions made at that time.”
One of them was a brief flirtation with a 2021 web 3 craze. November, Citron tweeted a screenshot of an unpublished Discord Build with integration for two crypto wallet apps. If the company threatened to cancel its nitro subscription when the company proceeded with the release, the post provoked an intense backlash. Two days later, Citron issued a statement stating that the discord would not ship integration.
“We were not trying to pursue a technique. It was about allowing people to use discord in a certain way, and it came up with a lot of downsides. We were trying to integrate something to limit some scams, and actually correct by users and make people safe,” said Visnevski. “But we really underestimate the sensitivity that the general user base was about the NFT, and we did not really do what we were trying to do in explaining what we were trying to do.”
As Reporting from that periodDiscord’s employees were partially responsible for reversal. An internal server allegedly exploded on a proposed implementation made of workers and game studio representatives.
Turning back, Vishnevskiy credits the employees of the company, some of which have been with discord from a decade for a decade, which have been to lead in the right direction for years. He says that there are situations where the employees of the company have come to him and Citron, “Why are we doing this?” He says, “Sometimes, they have pushed us to do things (Jason and I) didn’t think we should do it. I think it is a wonderful property. This product is made by those who love and use it.”
Coming out of the epidemic, the discord announced last year Refocus on gamingIn the immediate future, that innings of strategy will emphasize the company “simple things” such as app performance and usiability on “building new features”. In March, users got the taste of the new approach in which the company released a new form of its PC overlay, which reduced the chances of triggering anti-chest systems such as Battlei. In turn, this overlay became compatible with the highest number of plays playing the most on the discord. In the same release, Discord added three new UI density options to users to give more control over the look and feel of the app.
Moving forward, an area where the company wants to be particularly thoughtful is around AI. Discord has deployed technology in some areas – for example, it partnered with Crisp AI in 2019, with a call to add noise cancellation – but also has no wounds worked in it. “We have found that many of these things do not work enough to be in the product,” Vishnevsky said, pointing to facilities such as automodes.
The device is currently present in the discord. Moderators can use it to filter it for specific words and phrases. But when the company first picked the feature, it imagined an AI component, which would help the administrator manage the large, uncontrolled server, and even created a version of it that ran on a large language model. The company has so far shown this feature because “it was making a lot of mistakes.” Discord also briefly used with an underlying chatbot, which is called Clide to leveraged tech OpeniBut it was canned after less than a year. At that time, the company did not give a reason for the shutdown, but sometimes the screenshot showed the subredit posted to the discord, the clide, often unpublished, often unpublished, unpublished, Say some suspicious things,
“We are continuously recovering some of those ideas with modern models. There is no time on this because we will not ship until we think it’s a good fit for the product,” Vishnevsky said, the last thing that the company wants to do is “Slapping (AI) because everyone is doing it.”
Looking at the future, Vishnevskiy says the discord game focuses on helping developers, especially when it is related to discovery. Most of the most popular sports on discord are the same as popular on stage 10 years ago. This is the place where Vishnevskiy says that the new ORBS currency of the app comes, which people can earn by watching interactive advertisements, playing a game or streaming friends on their gameplay by streaming friends on the discord. Yes, this is a way for discord to increase its revenue, but Vishnevsky believes that the system aligns the interests of the player with the interests of the developer, giving the discord users something in return for their time and attention.
At least this is the idea. I got to try the system after my interview with Vishnevskiy, and when it feels favorable for users, I want to see how the discord planned to make it in some small game studios. Right now, advertisements are released with a company partnership of many publishers who are already going through a lot of mouth for them. I’m sure fan Rivalry Will prefer the opportunity to earn an ultraon avatar decoration for his discord, but a game with 147,000 concurrent players on steam is not struggling at all.
Vishnevskiy would not discuss the nuances of when and if the company is planning IPO, but offered a final assurance to users. “Discord is something that is a durable company that has a meaningful impact on people’s lives, not only in 10 years,” he said. “This is the journey in which Humm joined and signed up. We are focused for a long time. Our investors are long concentrated.”
Although it may be true that experienced employees of Vishnevsky and Discord have learned a lot on the company’s disturbed history, it is not clear how the culture of experiment and dissatisfaction can change with more shareholders to appeal. The test will be whether the discord can be perfect for itself and many of its fans.
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