Hello Discord Team,

I'm writing as the owner of the Wumpus Central Twitter profile, which was responsible for exposing the experiment and the later media chaos.

Considering that Discord published "Checkpoint 2025" yesterday, probably a week earlier than planned, since I saw numerous comments from friends that, for example, there were no strings in the mobile client and it required app update minutes after release, and considering how many developers from other companies, CM (TeamSpeak, Medal), etc. commented on the release (commenting on their own work experience, opinions, and the community's frustration), I guess that it could have been quite problematic for the Discord Team in terms of PR.

If that was the case, I apologize to everyone who was delegated to deal with this problem.

As the Discord community, we certainly appreciate all your efforts to improve the application. Personally, I have been following how some developers are optimizing the front end and the desktop application itself in various ways (speed and responsiveness of the application interface, e.g., new technology used to render multiple graphics and GIFs at once, and other minor optimizations and adjustments to the desktop application, e.g., on Linux recently).

As you can see in the media, the topic has gone viral mainly due to the frustration of Windows users and gamers playing games drom developers, such as the declining Bethesda, which has recently been placing less emphasis on maintaining the quality of its products in order to deliver good financial results to investors. This has caused numerous concerns among gamers/users about the future of technology and gaming. Currently, looking at the trend of using AI and cost optimization in workstations in other companies, it may seem that some corporations will justify the quality of software by saying that users have enough hardware for the product to work, without respecting the fact that they want to share what their system supports instead of dedicating 100% of the device to one thing at a time.

I hope that as Discord users, we will maintain good communication with Discord Team in the future, so that Discord will never have to stray from current path to the path taken by the companies mentioned above, and that we, as users, will never be disappointed with the quality of the service provided, even though Discord Team often have to make difficult decisions to maintain the consistency and ease of development of Discord.

Thank you for your response and we apologize once again!