Discord Lost Their Only Competitor… Guilded

Guilded, a popular Discord alternative, might have just ruined their community by releasing an update that makes the platform even worse than Discord.

Here's the thing, Guilded users are a lot of ex-Discord users: users that are fed up with Discord Nitro, Discord's shop, or one of the many pointless updates Discord does. So these people would rather starve than use Discord. But Guilded a couple of years ago got acquired by Roblox, and this seems to be the first step towards Roblox (intentionally?) ruining Guilded for its own gain.

Also since I know you Guilded nerds will read this, don't harass the Guilded staff. Should be obvious this choice came from upper-management.

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00:00 - Roblox ruined Guilded
00:52 - "Guilded will not change"
01:54 - Guilded's Gaslight Update
04:55 - But wait, this is good guys1!!1
05:22 - The trifecta of backlash
07:37 - Guilded can't ignore the feedback
08:33 - Ensh*ttifcation
10:02 - The Future of Guilded?

[NoTextToSpeech]

Correction: Sony's stock price drop had to do with Sony offering to purchase Paramount for $26b when it's cash reserves were around $9b, dropping the stock price due to cash reserve concerns.

What does this mean for this video: The helldiver's 2 scenario was not the driving force behind the stock dip.

[DogooSlayer]

Corporations try not to fuck up everything challenge (impossible)

[Tacommander]

Discord: “yo bro this food is bomb you should try it”
Guilded:

[christocream]

Being a contracted roblox creator for years whenever they promise something just expect the most half assed final product. Roblox constantly crashes their own stocks from being delusional and out of touch. They been forcing guilded on us and block everything they can on discord since they bought it. You are already able to link your roblox profile so this update makes no sense

[popofisto]

There was a major court case that set the percipient for this type of stuff. It's Dodge v Ford, and it was back during 1919. It basically made it so any publicly traded company MUST operate in the interest of shareholders, instead of operating for the benefit of employees or customers. It's why so many companies make these terrible decisions. And despite how anti consumer the law is and how many people are against it, it will likely be impossible for it to be appealed due to lobbying.

[Celestial_Cryptid]

I’ve heard this a million times. Giant corporation gets involved “no we won’t mess anything up” and then they proceed to ruin everything. Sigh.

[Mikoyan_Felon]

The problem with all free services is that they are not sustainable. When they blow up, investors will immediately show up and throw loads of money at the project, when the hype dies down and profits decrease, these investors start pressuring the owners of said project to make more revenue-driven choices, leading to the projects decline. It's a tale as old as time

Edit: I have corrected it now guys

[itznxthaniel]

Taking Tcmich's (who I consider a friend of mine) idea, and posting my own experience as well:

I was mentioned in the video at around 7:20, before this video came up I officially stepped down from the mod program, gg, and partner. I also have archived my servers and RG's channels are archived as well.

Many community members I know have up and left, and switched back to Discord in an attempt to show our stance against this change. But with it being a couple of days from the announcement. No official word has been made. I also have word from someone reliable that Guilded's entire mission has changed and this is a change that will not be reverted. I'm really upset to see this platform go as I spent the past 3 years repping this platform, helping it grow, and helping moderate its servers. But, all good things must come to an end.

p.s. I appreciate the mention of my blog post! <3

[gavinthecrafter]

I think people need to realize at this point that websites with little to no ads and mostly free features ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE and never have been. There's a reason companies have been charging more for features lately, and it's not just because of corporate greed. For example, Twitter has run at a loss for its entire existence.

[Kitty_haz_Claws]

Hi, Guilded Partner here since 2020, usually any and all changes were always discussed with the partners then beta tested and revised then tested some more and then pushed out. It was fun to see Discord push the same updates out 3-6 months later after Guilded did. Unfortunately, when the Guilded Staff pinged us (the partners) to tell us what was happening there was no open communication; it was stated as fact and done deal. The partner server absolutely blew up and (I could be wrong) there were only 1-2 partners who were vocally okay with this change. Even hard core Roblox players who were also guilded partners were NOT OKAY with this. Most all people who were on Guilded were there because, like you said, we HATE discord for our own personal reasons but because of this change we'd all rather go back to a product we hate than make the Roblox account. Sure it's easier to make the account, but this goes beyond 'what's easy' and it's the principle of the situation. After a few hours of pure chaos in the partner server we realized that the Guilded staff isn't to blame as they are doing what they are told by Roblox (so you are 100% correct on that), so we took to twitter and reddit blasting out Roblox.

[magikarpinamansuit]

My main fear is predators are already rampant on Roblox so an integrated discord like interface sends shivers down my spine.

[TheReelHellion]

Guilded Partner here (but don't care anymore). I can assure you that a lot of the partners are not happy with this change also. The vast majority of the partners are moving back to Discord (or have already moved before this even took place). I think a lot the pushback has to do with we weren't told a single thing about this until it was implemented by the Guilded Staff. There was no communication with the partners that this change was coming. Honestly it feels like Mixer all over again. And I totally agree with you. Guilded will become an icon on the wall at some point while Roblox just "eats" it and then shuts it down. It's only a matter of time. If I was on the staff there I'd be looking elsewhere for work. I think it might happen a bit quicker than you think though because no one asked for this change.

[wxrm]

Roblox has some of the worst moderation, spam, and hacking issues out there. The "foundation" they mention will be practically non-existent. Whenever a major corporation buys out a company and claims they'll be "hands-off, " what they really mean is they'll stay hands-off for a few years before eventually ruining the service to make their investors happy.

[AbraBalls]

The helldivers thing is still not resolved because on steam you still cant buy the game in those 177 regions (you can play if you bought it before) so because they couldnt get numbers they just showed us a middle finger and no one is really talking about it thinking it was over

[LexTheCat]

I absolutely see roblox applying their horrible chat filter to Guilded

[afsdijpgfsdlnvxcvxc]

The whole Roblox login is the same thing that Microsoft did when they took over Mojang. Requiring you to have a Microsoft account to log into your Minecraft account.

[tranhoangquan-Shadeez]

I love when large corporations do everything just to piss their users off.

[hybridizedhere]

Fun Fact: Legacy youtube accounts are STILL allowed to migrate to todays Gmail accounts (if you somehow still have one)
it will automatically prompt to change to a gmail upon signing in

Now why is there this sudden trend of locking you out completely and just deleting things if you dont migrate accounts in time? It happened with Minecraft (people paid and lost years worth of stuff because of that migration) it tried to happen with Helldivers, now its going on here

[Creminson]

Knowing Roblox's Community, this is going to be a fucking disaster and grooming and all of other weird illegal stuff is going to happen on Guilded now....

[MrMansfalumptuousflopper]

roblox already consciously ignores the piles and piles of child predators and horrible people and irresponsible and corrupted moderators on their own platform, I don't even wanna know what's going to happen to this one