It’s not just about understanding, it’s about being harder to remember. Can you honestly say you remember what your discriminator was without having to look it up?
And even if so, do you really expect that most people would remember it without having to look it up?
The reality is that most people aren’t going to remember a 4-digit number that they didn’t pick.
I have to add people every week and never had a single person that knew their number. If it wasn’t for the “nearby scan” feature, I imagine a lot of those people would have just said “fuck it,“ because looking up the number is so annoying.
But people are used to remembering a username they chose, especially if they can reuse the same one (or two) in multiple places.
"Hot" just needs to weight the upvotes by the relative size (or average post upvotes) of that community, so you can see whatever is "relatively Hot" within each.
I agree with the username change and I wish they had changed it earlier. If you've ever tried adding friends on using the old names, you would know how painful it was and how much better having a "normal" username is.
Anyway, whether or not you think those are "good" changes, I find it hard to argue that those specific changes could somehow be interpreted as driving shareholder value at the expense of users.
I'm not sure what your point is... I said they have resisted so far, not that they would be immune forever.
OP implied that they already had problems, and nothing you've said contradicts anything I said.
Source: I've been hosting multiple servers for over 8 years.
I disagree. Discord is one of the only non-federated social platforms resisting enshittification.
Back at the very beginning they said that any monetization they offered would be optional add-on purchases (not ads) and that those add-one would never involve removing the existing core features to sell them back.
Almost a decade later and they haven’t show any indications of straying from that promise.
Instagram completely mangles image quality, and Threads seems to be tied into Instagram stuff on the back-end, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's happening here.
While I also don't like JS, I just want to point out that not having JS on the website does nothing to prevent an XSS attack that injects JS into a site. This is more of a back-end kind of problem.
The top part is useless anyway, it's funnier if you just crop off the header... that's just one of those things people slap on so they can feel like they've contributed something, but really it's just noise.
This is what Temtem and Nexomon are for.