[m712]

Are you the original author of the article? The article itself seems to be experiencing issues right now, but from what I recall, the author mentions "extensible roles" and "good free tier" as the features that got him to use Discord. I don't consider these features crucial enough to use non-Free Software. If you are not the original author and have other features in mind, please explain which features of Discord are "so incredibly good".

[cyborgx7]

I'm not the author, just agree with the basic argument of the article, if maybe not every detail in it.

The thing is just the incredible ease of use. The easy with which you can join a server and then drop into any text or voice chat you feel like.

There are probably programms that technically replicate the feature set, but I haven't used anything that feels as effortless as discord does. And I can't even pinpoint why exactly that is.