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Discord is adding a new Premium Membership to multiple content creator servers that will allow users to have a paid subscription directly to that server.  Currently, around 10 creators have the feature live with expectations that it will be going live for everyone shortly if everything goes well.  This feature is also reported to have a 90/10 revenue split with Discord only taking 10 percent of the subscription money and the community owner getting the rest.

Server admins will also be able to create tiered packages and set their costs for those packages with varying rewards available to members.  Currently, the focus is to use this feature to lock and unlock channels of the Discord server depending on the user’s paid tier.  However, it does appear that Discord is mostly sitting back and seeing what creators will do with this feature going forward.

Currently, users will only be able to subscribe to features on the Desktop client as Discord does not seem to want to pay the Apple and Google App store fees and that is likely a key point to allowing such a high creator ratio for the revenue. Overall, this could be a massive move for both Discord and the servers on their platform as paid subscription content have become a massive industry in the tech world and content creators have created vast income using these services.

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Discord is adding a new Premium Membership to multiple content creator servers that will allow users to have a paid subscription directly to that server.  Currently, around 10 creators have the feature live with expectations that it will be going live for everyone shortly if everything goes well.  This feature is also reported to have a 90/10 revenue split with Discord only taking 10 percent of the subscription money and the community owner getting the rest.

Server admins will also be able to create tiered packages and set their costs for those packages with varying rewards available to members.  Currently, the focus is to use this feature to lock and unlock channels of the Discord server depending on the user’s paid tier.  However, it does appear that Discord is mostly sitting back and seeing what creators will do with this feature going forward.

Currently, users will only be able to subscribe to features on the Desktop client as Discord does not seem to want to pay the Apple and Google App store fees and that is likely a key point to allowing such a high creator ratio for the revenue. Overall, this could be a massive move for both Discord and the servers on their platform as paid subscription content have become a massive industry in the tech world and content creators have created vast income using these services.

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On 11/27/2021 at 6:50 PM, Paige said:

11!!!  We hit double digits!!!

That we did!

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3 hours ago, StormyFire said:

Participating in forums and gaming. ^^

Forums are finally coming back into my hobby list like they were in the old days.

3 hours ago, StormyFire said:

Didn't this type of thing get Microsoft in trouble for antitrust violations years ago? Of course, many antitrust laws have been dismantled over the past few decades...

Ya, Microsoft got hammered with antitrust laws back in the day. Nearly crippled the company.  It does seem like they have used Apple's and Google's success as reasons to go back to just trying to be a tech Monopoly (which in many ways I can't blame them), but stuff like setting the default browser is what brings way too much attention to that fact and brings their customers into action.  That last part is what I figured they would want to highly avoid.

I basically have no local shops.  We have a Best Buy and there PC components section is maybe 5 feet long at best.  Basically, you get 1-2 CPUs, 1-2 GPUs, a single cooler, and a rack with little stuff like RAM and Storage as options.  So for me, it is completely online.

3 hours ago, StormyFire said:

I prefer larger screens, but 17" laptops can be quite a bit more expensive. I have a 15.6" laptop.

This is completely true!  And once you get into more budget friendly laptops, non-gaming, etc. the 17" options disappear.

I do see 16" screens popping up a lot anymore, and I wonder how they will affect things.

3 hours ago, StormyFire said:

I don't think that the cost/benefit of water cooling is worth it. I stick to air.

Ya, I'd rather just buy more RAM or something instead of a fancy cooler, but I can see there uses in tiny cases.

14 hours ago, Paige said:

I have never seen these!!!!

They are CG anymore.  The original was great and the remake of it was also great!  However, I don't think the followup movies were as good, but I enjoyed them.

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23 hours ago, Paige said:

Cooking, but I can't say I am good at it.  I also enjoy playing with tech stuff, but it really gets anything besides more broke.

It is one of the best ways to learn!

I really thought 17' laptops were pretty rare today, but we so far have a majority of 17" devices here it seems

Just ordered my new laptop, it will have W11. So I guess I will see how it goes. Overall, I don't mind anything about W11 now that the full detail are out. The "mobile-first" design as I would call it is needed in 2021 for Windows to stay on top. I worry about the more in-depth settings and features of Windows that keeps it on top, but only time will tell and I can't help to feel that their users is far too invested into 3rd party apps to even try a more closed ecosystem like Apple (who also seem to have noticed the need to open things up a bit).

Overall, I prefer W10's UI but I support the UI move going into W11. I also support the device limitation (hopefully) as Window's biggest issue is just how versatile it is and they have to do so much extra patchwork due to ABC's PC running a AMD K6 with a 3090 and ranting on how the Xbox app does load right. Plus cyber security is probably the biggest concern we should have nowadays and companies are awful at doing options security moves, so if the secure boot and all that IS better, then I'm for it.

I actually really enjoyed the Deep Black series of books but I'm somethings an idiot and read them out of order 😂

Poetry honestly confuses me.  There are some many types and so many that don't seem like poems at all.  So I can't say that I am into the genre at all.

I like some of it, but not most of it. 

I do enjoy chill music when working on certain task or studying.  It is not my favorite music by any means, but I find it one of the few that I can read/type with.