I hate that many projects use Discord where anything else (IRC, Matrix, whatever) would work but in this case especially. Tencent owns an undisclosed share in Discord and just generally seems like a bad choice of communication platform if you want to look better than doge

Discord works by clicking a button - you get to signup, you fill in your email, bam you're on the Discord channel in your browser. Zero friction, nothing new to learn for the user.

IRC on the other hand....

I have never had that experience with discord, despite already having an account. It's truly mysterious what the actual link --> my account has the discord path should be.

I find IRC much easier, but I haven't used it in about 15 years.

... does not even ask for your email?

... has been around and worked perfectly for over three decades?

Discord is a walled garden that isn’t searchable from outside.

It’s a major contributor to the fragmentation of the internet into information black holes along with the other “social” media.

It’s the wrong tool to organize an effort to maintain an open access repository of information.

Discord basically phased out in browser. There is no link to it only the link to get the 500 MB behemoth app. If you manage to open web ui because it is in your browser history it hits you with a captcha and email verification code every time. Etc