Long-time Discord User Reflects on Platform's Value and Recent Service Degradation
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Summary
The article is a personal reflection from a long-time Discord user and community builder who has been using the platform since 2016. The author describes their extensive experience with Discord, including developing moderation bots, building communities of over 10,000 users, making lifelong friends, contributing to FOSS projects, and organizing events and grassroots movements. While Discord has been extremely useful and nearly irreplaceable for the past decade, the author notes that since the start of the pandemic, they and their friends have observed a gradual but inevitable degradation of the service, prompting them to search for alternatives.
Key quotes
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I helped build multiple communities of 10,000+ users. I've made lifelong friends, helped build FOSS projects, and organized events and grassroots movements. All through Discord.
For the past 10 years, Discord has been extremely useful and borderline irreplacable throughout many facets of my life.
However, since the start of the pandemic, my friends and I have watched the slow but inevitable degradation of service
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