Back in the day Discord's advantage was that it provided a way for people to set up a voice communication server with push-to-talk without any technical knowledge and for free. I don't know how they're ahead of competition now.. I don't know what their killer features are.

I use it occasionally but there are a few problems that always drive me away . 1) I have muted all the servers but I still get occasional sound notifications and just cannot find any source for them, might be a bug 2) there is no global notification history. To me that seems like a must-have feature and I don't know how people stand to use discord without it 3) ui feels very clunky. To me it seems like I spend way too much time navigating through the ui and searching for things. For example, scrolling through the servers and trying to remember which icon was which. Anyway, I would be interested in hearing why people do use it besides everybody being there.

I was boosting my server so everyone could use animated emojis. Thing is, people now have to be Nitro subscriber to use them. There has been no warning. I really don’t like those manners of making things that once were "free" premium features.

There was a time where about 70% of the apps I ran on my Windows machine were written in GTK, and that was long before I even touched Linux.

I really like Trilium Notes as a Joplin/Obsidian alternative!
I don't know if this really is as harmful an enshiftification as we've come to expect from other projects, it mainly seems to be allowing you to have a "patreon" or "gumroad" type project tied to your actual community. There's an argument that the centralization is harmful in the long run when everything goes belly-up but this move in a vacuum seems like a logical next step for Discord itself

To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room's history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.