Steam only being 32-bit isn’t improving compatibility, it’s being lazy. You can write code that works on both architectures for the best performance and compatibility across all PCs, like Chrome, Firefox, MS Office, etc.
The benefit is improved performance and a better user experience. The Chromium-based components of Steam (like the store) are slow in part because of that.
Revenue is not the same as income. Maintaining cross-platform apps and hosting nearly a decade of messages and media attachments is gonna eat into that. Also, Discord is in fact a private company.
That’s not how hosting a platform works. The storage might be cheap per GB, but the database management for something on Discord’s scale is a complicated and expensive feat of engineering: discord.com/…/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-mes…
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.