Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verif... by rockskon on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:23PM (#46996137)

I look at discussions on Hacker News for Discord replacements frequently with despair.

If it doesn't have enough of the utility, performance, and positive UX, it will never gain enough market share to matter.

E2EE encryption doesn't matter if you don't have someone else to communicate over it with!

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Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verif... by ddtaylor on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:22PM (#46997238)

I was able to get setup with Stoat but it took hours for the verification email.

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Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verif... by Nannooskeeska on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:26PM (#46997280)

My verification emails never showed up from Stoat or Root.

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Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verif... by ddtaylor on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:47PM (#46997463)

Mine took 6 hours on Stoat.

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Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verif... by johnnyanmac on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:46PM (#47007605)

>If it doesn't have enough of the utility, performance, and positive UX, it will never gain enough market share to matter.

That's part of why billionaires will continue to screw people over. They will try and stay in bed with the familiar evil, rather than put up with the temporary inconvenience of freedom.

And it's a negative spiral. Less users means less money to bring in staff which means less means to improve. Discord didn't become discord in a month, but other competitiors don't get that grace period.

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