Popular customs messaging app Discord has been forced to walk back its plans to integrate with Ethereum-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) following a stiff backlash from a significant number of its user base.

The pushback started on Tuesday after Discord'southward founder and CEO Jason Citron tweeted "probably nothing" accompanied by a screenshot of the app's user settings page that displayed an Ether (ETH) logo and option to connect digital wallets such as MetaMask and Wallet Connect.

Citron was so bombarded with thousands of comments calling on him to abandon the plans forth with users threatening to abolish Nitro subscriptions. The crypto-skeptics asserted that NFTs are a Ponzi scheme and damaging to the surroundings due to the amount of energy consumption used to mine cryptocurrencies.

While Citron had commented that the feature was in "pre-release" mode, on Thursday, he indicated it had moved to "no-release" mode:

"Cheers for all the perspectives everyone. We accept no current plans to ship this internal concept. For now we're focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. Web3 has lots of skillful but also lots of problems nosotros need to piece of work through at our calibration. More presently."

Despite Discord being a commonly-used app among the crypto community — with NFT projects, in particular, using the platform to build communities — it appears that the gaming contingent (among others using the platform) is not so fond of crypto.

A Reddit post in the r/discordapp community on Monday titled, "Please do not support NFTs," received around 6,400 upvotes.

User "CaboSanLukas" stated that NFT tech is "a scam," and added that: "Imagine you buy a ticket that says you own X image. Only that ticket has no legal validity in any country. As well, the value of NFTs is based on pure speculation and scarcity. While "Atulin" asserted that:

"You burn a hectare of the Amazon wood to go a link to a receipt for a purchase of something. Yous don't get that something, you don't fifty-fifty get the receipt, yous become a link to the receipt."

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Back on Twitter, Hayden Adams, the founder of decentralized commutation Uniswap, said on Friday the reaction Citron was getting was "pretty surreal" but a good reminder of how early into Web3 the world is.

"PoS + L2s will fully address environmental concerns over the next year imo, just the misunderstanding and fear will be around much longer," he said.