[sayusasugi]

As much as I dislike using a proprietary chat app, Discord is well designed and easy to use. Reliving the early internet is great and all but my time is limited, and I'm sick of sacrificing my time and sanity faffing around with bouncers and garbage IRC clients. It's the same reason I use macOS instead of Linux. I don't just want a Unix environment, I want a polished Unix environment where apps don't have Linux UI syndrome and plugging in an external monitor doesn't require me to pull up the man page for xrandr. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[f1refly]

Discords design is horrible, there's huge gaps everywhere, it won't obey any themes and it limits options severely compared to other clients while disallowing third party client developement. It also eliminated the possibility to host your own server while for malicious marketing reasons using the same term for their hosted channels. It's one of the best examples how companies exploit the technological illiterate and it's a shame some of literate people don't care.

Also external monitors work ootb, like basically everything nowadays.