[alterom]

>You think this post was written because of the Discord stuff in the news?

What a preposterously audacious proposition: to think that an article that describes Discord as a "a finely-tuned system that delivers speed, scale, and reliability" (that's a goddamn chat app, glorified IRC) and casts Discord in good light, written while Discord is experiencing a major scandal, might not be entirely unrelated to the scandal.

More so when the said article offers no concrete details about Discord, instead wildly extrapolating from a few quotes from executives, making assumptions, and talking about what could have been done, all in a way that might as well have been ChatGPT's output.

Yeah, we think that shifting the focus from "Discord stuff in the news" (which is: forcing ID verification and face scans while having connections to Peter Thiel's surveillance business), something that benefits both Discord and Thiel, is quite a likely reason for glowing technical articles about Discord taking off on HN all of a sudden.

[saagarjha]

I think it’s a low quality post but I’m not super convinced it really has anything to do with Discord’s ID verification thing, or even if it does, it seems really bad at doing this? Like I said before I think there is barely any content here and meanwhile everyone and their mother is discussing the policy they rolled out globally. At least on this site at least, it’s basically the most interesting news this week that isn’t AI.