Nothing changes, unless you were real famous and family friendly the odds of getting into the Partner Program were always too low. The average since 2019 is getting rejected like 10 times
> video is 8 min long > sends comment after 1 minute > quotes in the comments from the video wow! I actually want to be able to slow down time just like you
Discord as a base free service is already insanely free of traditional monetization. Considering there’s no 3rd party ads the free service is all you really need. I think this and the microtransactions shows the shift from pumping up the user base with a high-quality service to focusing on making that sweet, succulent money.
Exactly. China state is generally happy with all that juicy data from users for free. But there's the other 50ish percent of ownership that wants the green bucks ;)
As the owner of a community server of over 10k, I’ve been working to get to partner for years, while a few communities similar to mine that are smaller have had it due to joining the program in its infancy, it really sucks that all my effort to get that badge, and changes I made to the server to make discord happier, have been wasted. Genuinely sad after all this :/ it’s a stupid badge, but had its perks and justified in my mind the hours and hours I put into making things worthy of discords seal of approval. Big rip
"We're removing features from our platform to save money." >People who used discord just for those features leave >Site becomes just another website which turns people away >User engagement goes down and investors start losing money Discord: :O
The partnership wasn't that big of a deal tho. And i do not think that too many people were only joined for that badge, free nitro and a piece of merch.
As the creator of a server of 10,000, having been rejected 4 times, the removal of the partner program is both disappointing and relieving. The original goal of my server is to create the best possible community in the category, and to get partnered, they eventually made partner require linking social media, meaning it will literally make no difference how good or bad your server is, they just want outside traction. Now that it's removed, at least no one else will get it.
Felt, My community has grown as a 18+ SFW server for the last 2 years. managed to hit almost 4k members. Discord rejects my applications for Server Discovery because we are 18+. Even though they have 18+ discords that are NSFW. Makes no sense.
I don't really understand the "money" argument. Just remove the free nitro feature from partner program and make goals for application higher so less people will aply, so discord wouldn't need so much people to check applies.
It's not even the Nitro that costs them much, in fact, it doesn't cost them anything -- The employees to monitor those applications and monitor the partners themselves on top of the merch is what costs them.
As far as HypeSquad goes its served its purpose, in the early days, like you mentioned, was "to spread the word of discord" now (for better or worse) almost everyone that has used the internet as at least heard of it. HypeSquads mission is complete.
Yes, the closure of the affiliate program is a concrete blow to the motivation for the development of servers on the Discord platform. Because I would like to see some kind of bonuses and incentives from the platform for the fact that the server creators keep the audience on the platform. And so it turns out that we don’t get anything in discord and only give our time to create cool communities, although we can do this on other platforms.
Partnership has been so weird on Discord for years. Even before this occurred, a lot of people I know got constantly rejected without as much as a reason. I was definitely lucky to get it when I did.
Honestly what really annoys me about the disappearance of the partner program is 1 thing the recognition as getting that badge on a server is like a symbol thst not only does discord recognise you but they approve of your server and that to me at least was something I'd wanted to aim for
I mean, I would say that my server could be a Partnered Server. I run it since January 2018 and we are reaching 5K members. We do have own bots & an OC (Original Character) which represented the server but we still got rejected several times. I cared a lot about the quality of the server. We also have a very good structure. I never made the server for the possible Partner Perks that I "could" get. I originally started the community back in 2015 on Steam. But knowing that Discord doesn't offer that support anymore is like some kick in the face because it was in my plan-to-achieve-list.
I had it and was a partner from 10/2018 until 11/2021. Worked so hard to get it and was turned down so many times. 3 years with the badge. Had to step away for 6 months due to life and lost it. Would have had it back again but now its gone. I still kept most of the perks except the badge and the free Nitro. Really sucks that there are no longer requirements to keep it, that's how it was when I got in, you earned it and you kept it. I never cared about the merch, gave it to my kids. A virtual badge costs them nothing. Wish I got to keep it to remind of the work that went into creating a community starting in the summer of 2015 when most never even knew about Discord.
I’m a game developer, and setting up a server for my game. I’m a little shaken off by the Partner Programs removal, just because it’s more difficult to get into the Program than say, Discovery. If there can be 5 servers claiming to be the official one, and they’re all in Discovery, the partner program was the last way to tell which was real, and now it’s gone.
As a partnered community owner, one of the biggest benefits of the partner program was getting to speak with all of the new people, and supporting each other. It's truly a shame. 😔
Even though my server only has roughly 200 members in it in all honesty discord removing the partner program doesn’t really demotivate me, I mainly created the server for people to just find friends with common interests
I never mnaged to get in even when trying to maintain a server. Since then I've just let it slide for the most part and have even less drive to "worry" about it now. Right now the only thing I use it for is the odd communication with a viewer, and ongoing communication with friends. That's about it.
Personally I own a server with about 2500 people in and really couldnt care about getting partner. Its cool and all, but I would also need to put in way more effort into it than I really want to. It would also take alot of the fun out of the server since I would need to moderate it much more harshly to get accepted.
Answering last question, yes. I was a mod at a server we were trying to get partnered to show we really are a good server, but now that its gone, it kinda demotivates us and makes our work seem almost pointless. Of course the server wasnt made just to get it partnered, but still, with the partner program being gone theres almost no chance to make a good server stand out since there are *anarchy* servers that are somehow discoverable where there is chaos and even the staff saying the n word.
I'm similar though I haven't actually made the server public yet (I'm an indie developer who on one of my community establishment goals was get discord partnered(recognition from discord of my community and my work is how I perceive the server badge)
Welp doesn't wonder me, Discord Support seems to get worse too. My Account got hacked over a week ago just because of the Early Supp Badge and now I waiting for OVER A WEEK for an answer, but nothing is coming... I love Discord :)
That engagement requirement caused so much stress that I had to let go of my partnership for my own sanity sucks that their getting rid of the requirement now. My server was one of the first partners and currently sits at 50k. Without the partner program I'll probably be migrating my community off of discord as more then likely they'll be making decisions that won't be good for servers long term.
We gave up on trying to get partner long ago, simply because they kinda stopped accepting servers that are just generic anime hangout servers, so this change doesn't affect us at all. I've been growing and developing a bot for the past 4 years, so my main focus shifted on that instead.
"if you're not a chronically online user, when if you're typing "d", it will show Discord right away" Man, Discord is a pinned tab. I never even close it.
ive been running a server for just under 2 years, and its currently around 3500 members- the partner program has always been a huge motivator for me, and it shutting down was a huge hit to my motivation. im honestly not sure what to do now because i really only wanted it because i cant afford nitro, and now that that isnt even an option i dont know wtf to do honestly the whole thing just made me somehow hate discord even more (after they ignored me reporting a guy who owns a 5k-ish server full of kids he likes to groom, as they do) honestly might quit
@@the_shobu If you would've looked at my comment for more than 5 seconds you would've realized that it is, in fact, grammatically correct. The way it's formed, aka. The placement of verbs, nouns, etc. Might look confusing to say the least, but it does make sense. Just realized that you are a shameless bot that repeats the same phrase over and over again. How pathetic your digital ass is.
the moment I was ready to post my first application for discord partner program, they shut it down. darn. there goes two years of my life. (obviously not constant, I'm not THAT chronically online)
Discord might be running out of money, hopefully they will launch more merchandising stuff or nitro features before even putting ads everywhere in discord, or even worst, making you pay (cheaper for nitro users) for having a discord server
Both. They killed off nitro classic and lots of people stopped subscribing. The poor can’t afford the $10 nitro and a lot won’t buy it out of principal. Nitro basic is dog shit and nobody buys that. And discord not running ads means they aren’t making any more money outside of donations.
They do not actually send partner merch to every country a partner might be from. I worked as an admin for a content creator and managed his server to the point where he got partnered, but he didn't receive any merch (useless).
1:53 What makes me furious about this is how HORRIBLY NTTS accused this guy of being a "robot" because they made a few grammar errors and choosing the wrong words. Who knows the person writing that announcement just woke up and wrote it hastily without double checking? ChatGPT or any Text generation model would rarely (or even never) make a grammar error. They're too good for that.
This comment was written by a robot, it capitalised the word "Text" when it should've been lowercase, and also seems oblivious to the fact that AI generation is trained on human written text, therefore spelling/grammatical errors can happen
@@realimpmen My friend, my point is that NTTS was joking. And I would say an estimation of 97% is boldly undercutting spam-description websites, children's keysmash comments on YT Kids, etc.
For my Discord server I was going to apply for the Partner program after they were unpaused (i thought they were going to be) but i guess not now. We bring a lot of people to Discord and I thought it would be useful for us to talk to Discord staff more deal with some people in our server but thats off the table now. Thank you Discord.
This kinda pisses me off. I moderate a large band server and they paused applications in late 19/early 20, which was the only time the band whose sub I moderate has dropped an album, so we couldn’t use the literal 10x boost in traffic to apply to our partner application. The two times I applied were a year and a half after the album dropped and we were rejected despite their label promoting us on socials. I was just playing the waiting game.
I run a Discord server with a little over 300 members right now, based upon a fandom that hasn't been updated by the creator in the last few years (Specifically Deltarune, if you're curious), so I've been expecting a pretty large surge in the server's size for a WHILE now, so I'll admit, I *WAS* actually hoping to reach enough members to qualify for the Partner Program, one day... though it was never actually my end-game goal. *MY* personal goal has always been to reach enough members for server DISCOVERY, as I don't really care about any of the badges, or even free nitro... my goal is to simply create a friendly little, self sustaining community suited specifically to my own tastes (for example... almost NO swearing, and not even the SLIGHTEST remnant of NSFW in sight, along with a LOT of cooldowns and limitations on who can send gifs or images, as I'm not a fan of overly hyperactive chats)... I understand MOST Discord servers are pretty toxic and spammy communities, so I've always simply wanted a nice, CALM little place where there could be THOUSANDS of members, and the chat is still calm enough for ANYONE to easily keep up with. I've seen this done in servers of over 100,000 members, so I know for a FACT that it's possible... it's just getting the server advertised enough to actually GROW, that's been the issue. Nonetheless... you asked if I cared about the partnership program ending, to which I've thoroughly described by now... no need for me to continue rambling on about all the other little details. 😁
As someone that used to work for a Minecraft project with a 10k member Discord server which has been rejected for partner badge numerous times, this just feels shitty. Seemed like there was zero correlation for how and when they actually gave these badges out; and the Minecraft space proves it with how few servers actually have their Discords obtaining this badge even after meeting all requirements. It just goes to show that this entire partner system was never really a thing about "rewarding Discord users for creating and fostering a platform" and it was more so about giving 5$ hoodies to content creators and large media figures in exchange for them starting a server; because if you were not a MAJOR public figure, that also has a positive outlook on Discord (Sorry NNTS), you are not going to even be remotely considered for partnership. Honestly, the partner badge did not matter to most of us, because anyone with a large enough following to actually get the badge is probably making enough money off their Discord server and following outside of Discord that they couldn't care less about the "perks" of having it.
If I own a brand, then some of the partner perks will be important to me, like custom branding and invite links. If I don't own or work for such a brand, then I don'f feel anything about the partner program.
Personally, I never was interested in the Partner program, it seemed like a hassle to get in and remain a partner so it was never worth it. That said, I do find it demoralizing to make a Server and try to get it to be popular since there's no reason now. At least with the Partner program, you had some milestones you could maybe achieve one day but now? Now there's nothing for you to gain and just loads for Discord to gain.
"Does discord removing the pp demotivate you?" I didn't know it even existed until now but, when you phrase it like that yes it does, I want my pp back
I own a server right now, personally, it didnt demotivate me as I saw the server partnership program as something to try to get for fun, I mostly care about my community more than some partnership program that gives you a little badge
Wow, I remember when the max user cap was 10k members and you had to have a staff member in your server working on boosting you over that cap. Absolutely wild af seeing the max far beyond 100,000 now
To be honest, I've had a pretty good Discord server up for about 3 years now. It is kind of a shame how I can no longer get the badge for how long my server is up, but at the same time if what you said was true and their running out of money that's understandable. And to be honest, I do agree with only wanting the badge if I got the partner program badge. Just because I already pay for nitro and I don't really care for the merch since there's a high chance I'm not doing to actually wear any of the clothing.
i'm a discord partner, and discord closing the partner program finally gave me the green flag to close my partnered server. my interest in discord has been sunsetting slowly as the years have gone on, and i was just thankful i don't have to maintain it anymore.
I don't really care about the Partner Program in and of itself, but seeing how Discord seems to care less and less about their users as time goes on _does_ make me wonder how long I'm still going to have any good reasons to use it
Well, I was rejected about 5 to 7 times with a server dedicated to supporting online events with around 24k members and a daily average of 5k~6k members, while a server in the same style as mine, with half the metrics managed become a partner. Thats so fun.
I think the funniest thing about all of this is the VERY poor grammar in the Discord staff member's notice. That shows a real lack of professionalism. Not surprised, considering it's Discord.
*It pisses me off when giants like discord remove something and the leftovers (servers with an affiliate program) become scarce and drastically more expensive 😤*
@@Ryann9, I wanted my thought to be noticed by as many people as possible, to make it clear how many people there are like me. I apologize if I made you uncomfortable :(
Discord removing the partnership program doesn't really bother me at all tbh. I use discord like a regular turbo nerd and just host game jams with developers and stuff lol. Literally the only reason why i use discord is because its easy to congregate to.
I currently own a discord and I was half way to applying for partner. This does make me less motivated to work on it but I still want to because if discord ever brings it back, I could get it
Were the sound effects only in the left channel something sounded off, other than that great video...We never got partnered only rejected without any explanation, I am still waiting on a bug to be fixed I filed at the beginning of the year and they told me they have looked into it recreated it, and its in there queue but they have no way for me to check the status. I just don't think Discord cares anymore and unfortunately over the last couple of years I have become a bot dev mostly for our server but I fear they are going to start locking down the API and start taking things away from us
Anyone who gets demotivated for partner program to close just doesn't care about their community or server, they were just doing it to get free nitro and a stupid badge. The motivation to make a server is to make friends and have fun, not to get stupid prizes.
@@kanskje5855 Name single discord community that's fun and nice. Only reason I've started own in 2017 is because there isn't one. We're in 2023 and you can hardly call it a community.
100% on this, but at the same time the little badge that appeared at the top of your server made you seem established and added some credibility. Obviously the verified server for official servers was the most “official” looking, but the partner one was a great option for other groups that wouldn’t qualify for that.
@@Torbikini I hardly even look at it because it hardly tells you anything about the server other than "it has many people in it". Yandev server being verified should speak volumes.
if i had enough time to run a successful Discord server i don't think i would care too much about being a partner it would be nice to get that free nitro but i probably would still run it
Frankly, I don't run a Discord community just for the partnership. I want to have some place to post my YT videos and Twitch streams announcements where people can subscribe to the notifications easily and where people can engage. Partner program was never my end goal, but it would be nice to have it. Not anymore as it seems, but that doesn't deter me from continuing in bulding my community.
Man, the server I help run just hit the requirements for partner the week they stopped taking applications. Reminds me of years ago when I was so excited to join hypesquad as soon as I was old enough to (i think the requirement at the time was 16?) and then of course that closed applications for a couple years. Agony.
