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It's kind of incredible that this even needs to be said.

Discord is a great piece of software for organizing ephemeral communications. Voice chat works well. That's 99% of the value of Discord. It also absolute dogshit as a persistent store of information.

Stack Overflow-style Q&A is the definitive good choice for Q&A documentation.



I wouldn't even go that far.

There is not a single other popular communication software out there that a) has a pretty shitty client that wastes resources and leaks ram but b) bans account when they use better alternative clients

That's the most toxic environment I could imagine to communicate with


Interesting thing is this is a React bug that seems to be trapped in limbo: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/16087

More details here: https://discord.com/blog/investigating-discords-react-memory...




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