Discord Global Emote Salt

[Sergeant Politeness]

So apparently, Better Twitch TV Emoticons, or BTTV, shut down global emote servers for Discord. If you don't use Discord, BTTV is a way for streamers to add personal emotes to their Twitch streams, and they had this integrated into Discord. Problem is, people were making Twitch accounts just to add custom emotes and use them on any server. As a result, you saw massive "emote-only" servers with no purpose other than to allow people to use global emotes of a certain type, and it was clogging their system.

Very recently, Discord removed this functionality, and you have to pay for global emotes through Nitro now. Naturally, people aren't pleased.

 

[Fuck you jewish cunt]

So apparently, Better Twitch TV Emoticons, or BTTV, shut down global emote servers for Discord. If you don't use Discord, BTTV is a way for streamers to add personal emotes to the Twitch streams, and they had this integrated into Discord. Problem is, people were making Twitch accounts just to add custom emotes and use them on any server. As a result, you saw massive "emote-only" servers with no purpose other than to allow people to use global emotes of a certain type, and it was clogging their system.

Very recently, Discord removed this functionality, and you have to pay for global emotes through Nitro now. Naturally, people aren't pleased.

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All I have to say is, lol calm down

 

[A Hot Potato]

Only uncool parents use emotes.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Wasn't this SomethingAwful's business plan?

 

[BubbleButt]

Looks like Discord is the new Skype.

 

[Sergeant Politeness]

They set up a megathread to handle all the salt. People are really upset about losing tiny colorful pictures.

Big insistence that global emotes were somehow "advertising" for Nitro, implying any of the cheap fucks who used an exploit to get tiny sad little blob people on their messages were ever going to buy it.

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

they can take our lives, but never our emojis

 

[BILLY MAYS]

>not copypasting the custom emojis

 

[AnOminous]

"REEEEE REEEEEE why can't I waste enormous amounts of other people's bandwidth for fREEEEEEE?"

 

[Rare Drop]

Couldn't you just upload any emojis you like as a png/bmp/etc?
Granted having to upload each time is grating, but still.

 

[Sergeant Politeness]

Couldn't you just upload any emojis you like as a png/bmp/etc?
Granted having to upload each time is grating, but still.

You can have custom ones per server, but you have to be an admin or get an admin to do it. Nitro lets you upload your own custom personal ones and use them anywhere.

 

[ES 148]

On the downside, I can't use :BlobSnuggle: anymore.
On the upside, seeing people get so upset over it is hilarious.

 

[usernames can change now!]

every time someone calls an emote an "emoji" god sends a hurricane

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

SLAP THAT SALT SHAKER. Also lol, Discord...

 

[Robotron]

Looks like Discord is the new Skype.

How long will it be now until the next "Skype/Discord" service comes along to start the cycle anew?

 

[Honeybunny]

How long will it be now until the next "Skype/Discord" service comes along to start the cycle anew?

Sooner than anybody wants to admit

 

[Action Man]

Fuck discord, who gives a shit? People should stop using it.

 

[vertexwindi]

Can you imagine having to explain modern issues to people of a hundred years ago?

 

[Sergeant Politeness]

Discord subreddit is still really angry over blob people.

 

[Terror Rism]

i can't wait for people to go back to Skype and realize it's even more of a bloated piece of trash now than discord, and crawl back with "I'll never stop using discord, thank you for making such a good product!" posts