What A Wild Idea

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What A Wild Idea

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Discord's executive team holding an emergency meeting because users are canceling their Nitro subscriptions, and the room is filled with the most galaxy-brain suggestions known to mankind: offer a discount, add more features, or—wait for it—maybe stop requiring ID verification for a chatapp.

And naturally, the CEO's response to the ONE suggestion that actually makes sense? Yeet the guy out the window like he just suggested they open-source their entire codebase. Because why would you listen to reason when you could just... keep making your platform more annoying and watch the money evaporate? Truly revolutionary business strategy right there.

The best part? They'd rather throw discounts at the problem or pile on MORE features nobody asked for instead of removing the friction that's literally driving people away. Chef's kiss to product management at its finest.

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