I’ve been using squoosh.app a lot recently. Found it in a similar thread
EDIT: It is an image compression site where the images never leave your device. Or so the privacy policy says anyway. It took some tweaking, but i’ve had some images with an 80%+ size reducrion with almost no perceivable quality loss.
I did at one point, but it’s ultimately a waste of money, considering Revolt (a much smaller, donation funded chat platform) gives you most of the worthwhile features for free. I’ve been on Discord for almost 7 years and I could never justify buying nitro again. But, if Revolt isn’t your thing, or is just too small, Matrix is a very good alternative.
Want to know something about published science fiction or fantasy? Forget Goodreads or Wikipedia bibliographies, the ISFDB has ridiculously comprehensive details about every book, author or magazine I’ve looked up.
I think this goes on some list I’ve started of old-style fecking awesome web pages that represent exactly what us old timers are talking about when we say the internet has lost something vital. No frills, community driven, information rich and dense web page producing long lasting value. Just compare this to some recipe page with flocks of ads.
I’ve been paying for Nitro for about a year, I use the features frequently. Gif Display Picture, Banner, large upload size (500mb), high quality streaming. I’m pretty much streaming my games to my mates any time on my machine and they do the same, so better quality stream really increases our quality of enjoyment. I boost several friends large servers with the boosts we get. I like my profile to be flashy and care about it, and discord is on 99% of the time while my machine is on, on my second monitor along with YouTube. I use most of the features Nitro advertises, so I don’t mind paying 20m of work a month for it.
Lmao imagine typing up paragraphs just to boast about your fucking salary 💀
Do you really like to feel superior to poor people that much with your 10k a month? And then acting surprised that the disgusting poors can’t afford to pay a monthly fee for fucking hi-res GIFs or whatever
Usually I bought it when it was buy one get one free ever since they cancelled the $5/month Nitro Classic most people had (and replaced it with that pointless "oh please buy the more expensive nitro!" $3/month Nitro Basic).
This month, I accidentally forgot to cancel my Nitro and canceled it the day I was charged but didn't get my money back and had to keep Nitro for the month. Lesson learned, I likely won't be paying again. Maybe my memory is hazy, but I swore it was supposed to give your money back if you cancel quickly after being charged again.
I use Discord heavily, so I didn't mind paying the $5/month for Nitro Classic back when it was a thing. Discord was quite good at the time and wasn't in the process of enshittification like it is now. I can't wrap my head around paying $10/month for Nitro though.
Matrix sounds great and all and I'd love if the communities and people I know were on it but that just isn't the case, and this isn't a part of my internet usage where I can use FOSS unfortunately.
I currently do because it’s not much of my current budget. Now that I’m not running any server actively I have considered cancelling. I would reactivate if I need the server boosts though.
I used to be fine with Nitro because I didn't mind supporting a service I liked being free for everybody else. These last few months I have been seeing big red flags of enshittification with the introduction of a layer of cosmetic microtransactions you can only microtransact if you're a Nitro subscriber
It's probably time to start planning my exit, but I haven't dug into the details of what next steps are gonna look like for me.
I use discord to do a few text channels and chat with friends. Every nitro popup gets dismissed because I don't know what it is and have no interest in spending time figuring out some new thing I probably don't need.
It’s basically an interactive Python session using a Python interpreter compiled to WebAssembly and which then runs locally on your device via your browser without having to install anything on your end.
It’s very cool to check some calculation out very quickly on your phone or tablet.
I had free Nitro for a few years because I was a partner. Only ever used it for making my username end in #0001. Nothing else it offers is really that useful, imo. Especially for the price.
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