• I like it in terms of engineering. It is a very complicated piece of software that works so well that they have been able to build a very large user base in no time. It

    The downside is of course that it is close source and nightmare.

    • Their internal parts are nice, but their public API is a bit meh imo, specially considering their attitude towards devs. b1nzy, night and the others are not very welcoming, which has lead to some serious issues like Danny (author of the huge discord.py library and admin in the huge unofficial DAPI server) quitting.

    • Yeah, I would love for Discord to be more open sourced. Unfortunately there really isn’t an open-sourced alternative out there for Discord like how Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit and Mastodon to Twitter and Pixelfed to Instagram.