Long time IRC user here. I didn't mind using discord for some communities but it seems as though they now require phone verification which I certainly will not provided them. I feel as though one should be able to use it similarly to IRC and not be tied to one account for one phone number.

I haven't been able to find a temp phone number to use for this purpose as the best I could muster was a vpn number that supports SMS but alas, that didn't work.