Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

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Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'
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I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).

Also, weirdly, a lot of people seem to use Discord for things used to be (and I would say should) be on a forum (or community, magazine, etc.)

Trying to follow the thread of a discussion about some obscure point you're interested in is much easier when it's in a thread, instead of an undifferentiated chat log with a bunch of unrelated cross-talk.

I plan to check out matrix since the /r/firefox group has been chatting through that.

Does matrix have a voice/video functionality or is it strictly text chat?