Discord Has Obtained An Exciting Compliments-Based Poll Platform Called Gas
For most of us, the terms Discord and Gas could be new. During a time when the rise of social media platforms is no surprise, we find platforms such as these. I will quickly enlighten you by giving a brief definition of both platforms.
Discord is a popular communication platform designed for online gaming communities. It features voice and text chat functionality, as well as the ability to create and join servers (communities) and participate in voice and text channels within those servers. Discord also offers a wide range of third-party integrations, including support for a variety of games and game-related activities.
Gas, on the other hand, is a social media app that was formerly known as Melt and as well as Crush. Gas is an American anonymous platform that was launched in August 2022. The app was mainly created for high schoolers and was developed by Nikita Bier, Dave Schatz, and Isaiah Turner. Gas focuses on encouraging and empowering through positive affirmations. Gas, without a doubt, has created a fun and meaningful platform for young people to express themselves.
The platform Discord has announced its acquisition of Gas, an app that is very popular amongst teens and gives social media a positive vibe. On Gas, most users are students who can add friends and answer some polls about their classmates. According to some data released by Sensor Tower, Gas had a consumer spending of $7 million with more than 7.4 million installs, since its launch in 2022.
Despite its acquisition by Discord, Gas will continue to be a standalone app with its team joining Discord. According to Bier, Gas has had 4 team members since its acquisition. The acquisition by Discord was mainly because Gas had a series of unfortunate events.
Gas has been a very popular app and has been subjected to widespread rumors of sex trafficking. Although this was proven to be false, it still negatively affected the app's downloads. The hoax also resulted in several death threats being sent to Bier and his team via the internet. Sex trafficking accusations are becoming very popular as we see sites such as Walksafe and IRL also being hit by such accusations.
Although Discord has acquired Gas, they decided to keep it as a separate entity and only announced that they would be integrating a selection of apps into their servers. Integration of these community polls are a possibility on the messaging platform in the future. The terms and conditions of Discord acquiring Gas haven’t been released to the public.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.